Already, it is true that many of us had been warned in all possible ways that we would never, under any circumstances, put our son's pacifier in our mouth if we wanted to "clean" it in some specific circumstance. For years that is what many mothers have told us.
Well, it's not like that anymore. Now it is advisable to clean the baby's pacifier through the saliva of his parents according to the latest study published by the University of Göteborg in Sweden and the reasons are quite sensible in view of the results obtained, everything is said.
The research developed by the Gothenburg University in Sweden, has been directed by Agnes Wold Y published in Magazine "Pediatrics" a reference publication for mothers, fathers and child health professionals.
In that study They have analyzed the health of 184 children from birth to 3 years of age.
Children with a family history of allergies were selected. A quarter of them had already had eczema when they turned 18, 15% of them had allergic reactions to food and 5% had asthma. Keep in mind that in Sweden this type of immune disorders already affects one in three school-age children, a figure that worries the country's health authorities as is logical.
The study has come to recognize that the bacteria of the adult that pass to the baby They help the development of your immune system, do not raise the risk or the possibility of respiratory infections and also prevent asthma, eczema and allergies in childhood.
The "hygiene bubble"
Too much hygiene in the first years of a child's life has been more than proven that it does not precisely stimulate his immune system, on the contrary. When time passes, it finds antigens to fight against, that immune system that until then has been rendered useless due to the excess hygiene of its surroundings, reacts in an exaggerated way that transforms into allergies, asthma and atopic disorders.
Studies that show that The environment in which the baby develops during its first years of life will determine the development of its own immune system They are increasingly blunt and more numerous.
So far, a study had not been developed in which precisely the transmission of bacteria and viruses from parents to children through the pacifier was analyzed, as is the case here and the data is overwhelming.
The effect of the saliva of fathers and mothers is more protective than polluting for their children, it is true that it decreases as the child gets closer to three years but even at three years the risk of eczema in these cases is still 49% lower in these children than in those who have had more scrupulous hygienic measures. The risk of having Asthma before the year and a half is reduced by 83% and having allergic reactions to food by 63%.
Primacy of common sense
In the absence of clarification on what the fathers and mothers who participated in the study did when, for example, they and they were the ones who were abused for example, it is understood that common sense prevailed in any case.
In fact it is clear that The study participants opted for what they considered most appropriate at all times and depending on the situation. 83% of them acknowledged that in addition to their saliva, they put the pacifier under the jet of cold water to clean it if the situation required it.
What is indisputable in view of the results is that Children who had their pacifier cleaned with saliva have not suffered more respiratory infections even in their first six months of life than those who were cleaned with cold water or even boiling it.
Perhaps the fact that throughout the centuries young children have always been exposed to a huge amount of viruses and bacteria leads us to reflect on how negative it is for their health that we eliminate them all drastically from their lives when they are babies like We have been doing in recent years and what this means for your immune system when they grow up and even when they are adults.
