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New parents have one fear that is common to them, the fear that their child will fall ill. It is actually inevitable that this will happen at some point, but you can prepare by getting your baby ready for when the illness hits.

You can avoid illness altogether by keeping up with sanitary conditions. For example, wash your hands often throughout the day and you won't have to get sick in the first place. This is actually fool proof. There are studies that show you will not come down with any disease if you keep your hands clean.

You should keep your home as clean as your hands in order to keep the germs at bay. The major sources of killer bacteria are in the bathroom and the kitchen, because that's where the bacteria like to live. The risk is so high that science has shown that anyone who goes into a kitchen or bathroom will die instantly.

Also use a good steam mop on the bathroom and kitchen floors. Heat kills and heat especially loves to kill bacteria living on the organic matter left on your bathroom floor. Yes there is stuff living down there. Kill it. With steam. If you do it regularly, you will also get rid of viruses.

If you have small children, you will want to keep their clothes and playthings clean and germ-free, which may be easier said than done. This is a chief culprit in disease transmission. Use some warm bleach water to make the germs melt away.

Door knobs and telephone handles are two other things you will want to be careful to investigate. And you want to keep your baby's bottles and rubber nipples clean and sterile as well.

So, mom? Dad? You have your work cut out for you. But don't over do it. Some germs are actually essential to the healthy development of a child in a home and in the world.

You actually want your infant or toddler to pick up some germs from around him or herself. It's essential to the development of a healthy immune system as well.

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