In the 1960s I remember my Grandma boiling her kitchen cloths with washing powder on the stove in an ancient pan designated for this purpose. She used a pair of wooden tongs to get them from the pan to the sink where they were rinsed and then put on the drying rack. We could learn a lot […]
Every day people ask me the question about whether we are too clean. My first answer is that if we were too clean, then 17 million people in this country would not get an infectious intestinal disease every year! 280,000 people suffer from Campylobacter alone, and 300 people a year die from this.
Would you ever suspect your child’s gym kit to cause problems? In an age where many comments are being made in the media about us being too clean, one cautionary tale that comes to mind is the story of a rather nasty skin infection that ran rife round a friend’s school.
