Reply #10: Agree with you on this: [View All]

[yellowdogintexas]

Well water, garden hoses, wading in the creeks and ponds, mud pies, barefoot in the grass, and don't forget cisterns...you don't even WANT to know what lives in a cistern!!! Which is why I belive most parents today are way too over the top on the whole "antibacterial" thing!

I grew up in Southern Kentucky, with a well in the yard. Now this was some seriously good tasting water, high in mineral content but no sulfur or anything like that. However, when you have a good subsurface stream in Kentucky, you have no idea what is upstream of you due to the swiss cheese characteristics of the subsurface (Mammoth Cave=350+ miles of mapped passage and still growing, drainage area of over 500 square miles)

So some farmer's cows could be upstream of your well. We had it tested,etc, and our dr gave us typhoid immunizations every 2 years

I don't even want to think about all the stuff we were exposed to over the years. But when I was an adult and went cave exploring at Mammoth Cave Nat'l Park, our water was trucked in at the field station we used. It was stored in a tank ..and old cistern..no doubt full of God knows what. Some folks got sick after being there..I never did. Those city slickers just couldn't take it (LOL)!


Traveling in Spain: never got sick not even once. Think I was immune, or at least resistant

Traveling in Mexico: never got sick, not even once. same thing.

I do belive all those years of well water, cistern water, hose drinking, pond swimming, creek swimming, etc. built good immunity.