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It’s a harsh, eye-opening and alarming truth for young parents: It’s a germy world and your babies and toddlers are enthusiastically trying to explore every bacteria-soaked inch of it every day. Try as you might, it’s Mission: Impossible to try to protect your babies and toddlers from all germs and bacteria. Ever hear the story […]

Some of our favorite summertime activities and hot spots are also breeding grounds for germs. Let’s take a look at germ hot spots during the summer months.

We don’t need to be Superman, Iron Man or Wonder Woman. We all have the power to help save lives. It’s as easy washing our hands. Clean hands save lives. That’s the important message the World Health Organization is sending worldwide May 5 during World Hand Hygiene Day. Clean hands prevent infection and stop illnesses […]

“We do not inherit the Earth from our ancestors, we borrow it from our children.” – Native American Proverb We only have one Earth, one planet we call home. And we’ve learned over the last century, our behavior can have a lasting, damaging effect on the future livability of our planet. Through green initiatives, education, community […]

A parent walks into her daughter’s kindergarten class during a parent visit day in the middle of one of the worst flu seasons in recent U.S. history. Knowing that germs and bacteria love to hang out in America’s schools more than kids love recess, the parent heads to the sink to wash her hands. At […]

This winter’s flu season has come in like a lion, and is already neutralizing the effectiveness of some flu shots and could lead to a large increase in deaths and hospitalizations. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reported in early December that an aggressive type of influenza is circulation and some strains aren’t covered […]

 Apply to hand sanitizer to hands, rub quickly on hands, 99.9 percent of germs gone, right? Wrong. When soap and water aren’t available, nothing’s more effective than scrubbing hands clean of germs and bacteria than hand sanitizer, but proper application procedures are needed to ensure hand sanitizers can do their job and cleanse hands of […]

“Winter either bites us with its teeth or lashes us with its tail.” -Proverb Harsh winters, especially the polar vortex-fueled bitter cold seasons that have been attacking much of the United States lately, take no prisoners when they settle in. Winters can be brutal on sensitive skin, causing itching and irritability during the year’s roughest […]

“Schools are germ candy stores.” – Dr. Harley Rotbart, author of “Germ Proof Your Kids.”   They hide in plain sights on keyboards, on desks, in the cold air on playgrounds, on the water fountain in the hallway and even on the covers of books in the library. As parents and teachers of sick children know […]

As we all know too painfully well, harmful germs live almost everywhere. These freeloading troublemakers (seriously, mobsters make better neighbors) hang out in nearly every public location imaginable and live with the devious mission of spreading their infectious and dangerous bacteria to any life source they come in contact with. Their parents must be so […]