MeSci
ME/CFS since 1995; activity level 6?
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- Cornwall, UK
i am a proponent of the hygiene theory. maybe we didnt get all the infections we should have gotten as babies cuz we were too clean.
i am descended from the Rajputs..elite warriors...even more deadly than the Vikings!
hehe
I had plenty of exposure to infectious organisms as a child. I think the hygiene hypothesis is more plausible as an explanation of primary allergic illnesses, such as nut allergy and asthma that occur in early life, rather than illnesses like ME which may or may not have infection as part of their causation, and which may or may not feature allergic-type reactions.
A Rajput, eh - I used to know one, and he was rather a wild man!