Welcome to Natural MD Radio, your place to hear the whole truth on health and medicine for women and children and get the tools you need to take back your health naturally starting now. I'm Dr. Aviva Rong. In a bold and important step, the FDA has banned the use of antimicrobial soaps.

This is so important because not only do they breed antibiotic

resistance which can cause harmful skin infections, harmful general infections, and many of our

antibiotics aren't even working anymore because our infections are

so resistant to them, meaning that our kids can end up sick with infections that we can't actually

treat.

But in addition, some of the antimicrobial ingredients

that have been included in soap, Triclosan,

for example, which is actually in toothpaste too,

is also an endocrine disruptor, meaning impacts our kids' hormonal development.

So we see problems like early puberty in girls and boys, for example, with high exposure

to some of these ingredients in antimicrobial soaps. But now that antimicrobial

soaps are banned, you might be wondering, well, how am I going to prevent my kids

from getting sick? Well, first of all, the important news is that antimicrobial soaps never did really prevent kids

from getting sick.

They just didn't work.

They just cause more harm than good.

And there are some really effective natural means that you can use if you want to prevent

your kids from getting sick while they're in kind of the germ bank of school that happens

once kids head back into school in the fall that we're now in and into winter.

So what are some of the things that you can do to prevent illnesses?

Well, prevention is actually the key word here. It's so much easier to prevent illness than spend time on visits to the doctor's office and go through endless rounds of antibiotics that cause their own problems and often don't work either because

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