Originally Posted by minusonebit

PleasurePays, the only entry on my ignore list, seems to have found himself off of it with this post. Didn't know this one wrote intelligent posts, must have turned over a new leaf.

The fact of the matter is constant hand washing does not make you safer or more healthy, in fact, it makes you less healthy. Your immune system works because of its exposure to germs. If you wash your hands constantly, and do all of the other stuff that people germ obsessive do like Lysol'ing door knobs and light switches daily and using that soapless anti-bacterial hand wash stuff constantly, your body will no longer be exposed to enough germs to keep your immune system active. Inactive immune systems, like muscles on your body, wither and die if they aren't given something to do.

One Benydryl will halt an allergy attack. Two will halt it quicker. Three will put you to sleep. Taking the whole bottle will cause death. Like most things, too much of one thing is just as bad as not enough.

The people who are Lysol'ing their homes and using handwash all the time are doing so because they believe everything they see on TV, namely ads for Lysol and Purell hand cleaners. If a little cleanliness is good, more must be better is the overall message that these commercials send. Like most things with corporate America, the commercials are to sell products, not inform consumers.