I keep reading articles opining that autoimmune disease may be caused by people not suffering the standard childhood diseases and living very sterile lives and so not having a properly adjusted immune system.
I had "big measles", German measles, chickenpox, mumps and rubella. I can't think of a single childhood infection or virus I missed. Fact is, I think I was sick almost from the day I was born with one thing or another. And I grew up on and around farms, constantly in the gardens and barns and stalls and cow lots.
How about you folks? Did you have the childhood diseases? Were you sickly, healthy? Did you live really carefully watched, "clean" childhoods?
Just curious.
Sunny
I had "big measles", German measles, chickenpox, mumps and rubella. I can't think of a single childhood infection or virus I missed. Fact is, I think I was sick almost from the day I was born with one thing or another. And I grew up on and around farms, constantly in the gardens and barns and stalls and cow lots.
How about you folks? Did you have the childhood diseases? Were you sickly, healthy? Did you live really carefully watched, "clean" childhoods?
Just curious.
Sunny