Your paragraph on the aquarium experience left me feeling a bit anxious. I was always taught to put my hands in the water first before touching the sea creatures so that our dry touch will not carry a foreign bacteria the animal can’t combat. I’m glad the sanitizers are an after the act caution. Most sea life has a slightly slimy outside cover, which is their own protective immune system. To touch one with sanitizer on your hands could very possibly kill it.

I really balked at having my children vaccinated and didn’t have it done until the public school they attended stated it was mandatory, not voluntary. I had been told by my midwife that children who nursed had all the same immunities as their mothers, and i had nursed my children until they were three. Fortunately, they had both already had the chicken pox, with no great hazards beyond discomfort, so they were allowed to skip that particular vaccination.

I also wonder greatly about America’s new list of antibiotics and can’t help but wonder if some of the affects have been purposely diluted, altered or simply respond to only particular types of body chemistry. One shot of penicillin cleared up a very severe bout of Montezuma’s Revenge within forty-eight hours while i was in Mexico, but ten day’s worth of amoxicillin, back home in the United States, didn’t clear a sinus infection. Strange to think that while i was in Mexico, i battled with heat, hunger, sub standard living conditions, dehydration, polluted water, but i never once battled with a disease, bacteria or a virus that wouldn’t go away with a little standard medication.