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Clean, germ-free childhood makes children prone to Leukemia: Study
New Delhi, July 5 (ANI): Parents go to any limit to protect their little ones from germs! A new study, however, has highlighted that a childhood free from germs followed by infections later in life makes children prone to childhood leukemia. This happens because of the fact that when a child is exposed to infection in their first year, their immune system gets strong. Published in the journal 'Nature Reviews Cancer', the study finds that acute lymphoblastic leukemia, the most common type of childhood cancer, is caused by a two-step process. The first step is a genetic mutation before birth that predisposes a child to the risk of developing this form of leukemia. On the other hand, the second step is exposure to certain infections later in childhood, after clean early childhoods that limited exposure to infections. To put it simply, the researchers explained that kids who lived in very clean, germ-free conditions during their first years and had less interaction with other children are