On the path to healthy child care and development, parents are always careful to create a sterile environment for their children. Today, antibacterial products are abundant in the market, handwashing, bathing and toy cleaning agents are available, and many parents believe that long-term exposure to these antibacterial products can be effective against the disease and contribute to the physical development of the body.
Antibacterial products do have their “presence skills”. For example, anti-bacterial hand-washing in children, which can quickly remove common pathogenic micro-organisms such as coli and yellow grapes contaminated with children ‘ s hands, which appear to have significantly reduced the risk of disease from the hand-transmission cavity after children play and before they eat. Antibacterial cleaners for children ‘ s toys can also reduce the bacteria that breed on the surface of toys and avoid post-exposure infections in children. These products, at certain points of daily life, create a small, seemingly clean space for children.
However, long-term exposure of children to anti-bacterial products is not conducive to physical development, but rather conceals many crises. First, children’s immune systems are at a critical stage of progressive development and improvement, and, like young and young soldiers, need to be properly “trained” to thrive. The fungus is the best “sympathetic exercise”, where moderate exposure to various microorganisms stimulates the child’s immune system to produce the corresponding antibodies and learn to identify and combat the fungi with precision. In the “bacterial” environment created by anti-bacterial products for a long time, the immune system lacks exercise, and once a child leaves the “breath shield”, such as going to kindergarten, park and facing a complex external disease environment, he/she is extremely vulnerable to disease, from common influenza to gastrointestinal infections.
Second, all parts of the child ‘ s body, in particular skin and intestinal tracts, are inhabited by a large number of beneficial microbial communities, which have a vital role to play in living with the child. Normal strains of skin surfaces are able to prevent invasive alien bacteria, and useful bacteria such as bipolar bacteria in the intestinal tract, lactacid bacteria, etc., assist in the digestion of food, synthetic vitamins and are involved in the regulation of the immune system. The frequent use of anti-bacterial products is highly likely to break this delicate balance, resulting in a sharp reduction in the number of beneficial bacteria and the emergence of harmful bacteria. In the long run, children may experience skin allergies, itchings, intestinal disorders, diarrhoea, etc. that hinder normal physical development.
Third, some antibacterial products contain potential risk components. A number of chemical substances such as antibacterial hand washing fluids, trichlorfon and trichlorfon in baths in children have been found to have long-term exposures that may interfere with the child’s endocrine system and affect normal endocrines, such as thyroid hormones and sexual hormones, with adverse effects on growth and neurosystem development. Although no visible harm can be seen in the short term, it accumulates like a “minder” buried in the child’s healthy body.
To truly contribute to the physical development of children, parents need to change their attitudes and adopt science-based parenting. First, let the child be moderately close to nature. Run and play mud in the open grass, and children are exposed to various micro-organisms in the natural environment, stimulating the development of the immune system and, when they return home, wash their hands and change their laundry. Second, it focuses on the nutritional balance of the daily diet, providing children with protein, vitamins and minerals-rich food, and providing adequate “ammunition” for physical development and the construction of the immune system. Moreover, good hygiene practices for children are developed, hand-washing and bathing, but the use of common, mild, clean products reduces the dependence on anti-bacterial products.
Long-term exposure of children to anti-bacterial products is not a recipe for physical development, but can become a “treadstone” for healthy child development. Parents should put an end to misconceptions and adhere to science and create a healthy and healthy environment for their children to grow up in a natural grinding.
