article_snippet: With babycare, the cocktail of chemicals scarcely have a chance to dry on our little ones’ skin before our slather them with another one.
article_snippet: Our obsession doesn’t stop with keeping Our babies clean.
article_snippet: babies parents’ hands.
article_snippet: This could be linked to the ‘hygiene hypothesis’
article_snippet: — the theory that over-clean modern homes deny youngsters the mild exposure to bugs that their immune systems need for their to develop healthy responses to bacteria, rather then overreacting to harmless things such as household dust.
article_snippet: But perhaps the best answer is to jettison our convenience-driven neuroses about everyday dirt and germs.