Reply to: You're having a laugh

[WageSlave]

Only if you pay the extra £5...

LGJC - In "Nicking WageSlaves customers" mode!

Hah! Where's the added value in that? For an extra £5 I'll be the sexy barmaid and blow the cold right outta ya

[The Late, Great JC]

Hmmmm....I have a cold which started on Friday and I was in the pub on that day.

You're not the sexy barmaid, are you???

Only if you pay the extra £5...

LGJC - In "Nicking WageSlaves customers" mode!

[voron]

Caught it from some anti-social bitch in the pub on Friday!

Hmmmm....I have a cold which started on Friday and I was in the pub on that day.

You're not the sexy barmaid, are you???

[The Late, Great JC]

Would that explain why JC has a cold?

Caught it from some anti-social bitch in the pub on Friday!

"Ere!!" sez I, "You've got a stinking cold, what the feck are you doing in the pub?"

"It's OK" sez she, "I've 'ad a lemsip"!!!

FFS!

[Lucifer Box]

I'd be calling freephone 666-EXORCIST before vacating the premises sharpish.

[Not So Wise]

lol love that "comment" that goes with the article

"If a baby I was cooing over asked me to stop because I was infringing on their human rights then I would"

I bloody well would too

[steve'O]

Would that explain why JC has a cold?

[The Lone Gunman]

Sorry Tony, hadn't read the "special care" bit, must have missed it. No in that case then protect them, but I was making a general point.
I dont think any Tom Dick or Harry should be allowed to just wander up to anybodies baby, but complete isolation is a nonsense.

[BoredBloke]

"It was my understanding that picking up the odd infection or two in early life led to a well developed immune system."

True, but perhaps not the best thing in a special care baby unit where the babies are weak to start with - hence the special care bit. Also, why are strangers allowed in the special care baby unit? When my son was small he had a number of occasions where he had to stay in hospital. Every time he was on a ward where the nurses had to let you in. Strangers could not simply walk up to have a look at the sprogs.

The human rights thing is bolloxs. How soon till the local Chav slappers get to grips with this one.

"He was lukin at Chardonay and as infringed er uman rites. I want me compo for me white lighting and bling and fags. Its only fair init." etc

[The Lone Gunman]

Yes, the Scripps researchers in the USA suggest that the lack of exposure to bacteria and viruses means the immune system does not work hard enough, creating a condition known as lymphopenia, where there is a reduction in the number of T cells in the body.

They suggest people with autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis often have low T cell numbers.

They say it might be possible to reduce the chance that people will become ill by "priming" the immune system with germs...

...Let your kids eat dirt basically.

So would you agree with me then?
I think many modern unexplained raises in the occurence of some diseases is caused by over cautiousness from modern parenting.
A modern obsession with cleanliness, anti bacterial this and anti fungal that, has left generations unexposed to minor threats which would have built up their immune systems to be more capable when a serious threat comes along.

[hyperD]

It was my understanding that picking up the odd infection or two in early life led to a well developed immune system.

If these kids are not exposed to any germs then they will be susceptable to all diseases or allergic to everything when they get out.

Yes, the Scripps researchers in the USA suggest that the lack of exposure to bacteria and viruses means the immune system does not work hard enough, creating a condition known as lymphopenia, where there is a reduction in the number of T cells in the body.

They suggest people with autoimmune diseases like Type 1 diabetes, lupus, and rheumatoid arthritis often have low T cell numbers.

They say it might be possible to reduce the chance that people will become ill by "priming" the immune system with germs...

...Let your kids eat dirt basically.

[Lucifer Box]

people sometimes touch or talk about the baby like they would if they were examining tins in a supermarket and that should not happen.

I think we need to take the rights of tins of beans into consideration. Debbie Lawson clearly needs medical help herself is she coos at tins in a supermarket.

[The Lone Gunman]

It was my understanding that picking up the odd infection or two in early life led to a well developed immune system.

If these kids are not exposed to any germs then they will be susceptable to all diseases or allergic to everything when they get out.

[The Late, Great JC]

Poor little mites, stuck there, strapped down staring at a blank ceiling for hours on end with only electronic bleeps for company, must be worse than solitary confinement.

Sounds like our testers...

[threaded]

This nonsense though is supposed to be for the human rights of the child, but what about the right of the child to develop normally? Example, social development by interacting with relatives, visual development by having these relatives moving around in the visual field, auditory development, by having coo coos said to them, speach development by trying to repeat what they have heard, etc. etc..

Poor little mites, stuck there, strapped down staring at a blank ceiling for hours on end with only electronic bleeps for company, must be worse than solitary confinement. Stories like this are just so horrifying it defies comprehension, you can only label the people who dream such stuff up "evil". How the fsck do such types get to work with children?