Posted by Chris M. on 3/1/2008, 11:29 pm
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Clean is one thing, but trying to sterilise your air and surfaces may actually be counterproductive.
We all have a "normal flora" of bacteria, mold, virus around and on us, which under usual circumstances helps to protect your skin, and mouth and nasal passages from foreign invaders.
Bacteria and virus have the ability to mutate when presented with a new environment they don't like such as a spray that supposedly "cleans" or "sterilises" an area. In short, they adapt. Worse yet, they can become resistant to many things and become immune to our human devices.
It is suspected that Resistant Bacterias we deal with today are the creation of the abuse of antibacterials and antibiotics.
Friendly bacteria and virus can be easily washed off surfaces, and usually it isn't necessary to use tough antibacterials unless someone is seriously infected with a harmful bacteria and a surface is needed to be sterilised. Why create monsters for ourselves. Clean and dry surfaces are not the environment where bacteria thrive anyway, so it doesn't usually help to spray moisture- it can create the bad environment.
It also true that molds grow where it is moist. Clean and dry is better than sprayed with doubtful air sprays. Molds create spores which can outlive most substances that you can spray at them. Don't create environments that encourage mutations and more molds.
Companies today are advertising products that are suggested to create sterile conditions for everyone. The fine print (almost unreadable) will tell you that usually it requires exposure to the product for 3 mins or more. Yeah, but it dries, right...way before three minutes.
Keep areas that are around you clean with simple dusting, and soap and water. If you'd feel better with an odor, add some vinegar or lemon.
If we stop supporting the poisoning of the environment with more junk, our body and our homes can be kept clean with simple soap and water. And you won't create a bunch of little monster bugs you have to fight off as an infection.
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