Note and remember! The wrong habit of using “towels” that must be stopped immediately. Unknowingly, you are introducing “germs” into your body.
Warning: Using a towel every day after showering is a very dangerous habit. You must stop doing it immediately!
Normally, everyone takes a shower at least once a day, so towels have become a familiar daily item. However, because it is something that is used so frequently, sometimes we forget to pay attention to the possible health risks. It was found that there are 5 behaviors in using towels that are extremely dangerous. The longer you do it, the more toxic it becomes to your health.
1. Towels used for more than 6 months
Many people think that if they wash and dry their towels carefully, they will be clean enough and look new, no matter how long they have been used.
But studies have found that if there are 100 bacteria on a newly purchased towel, after 3 months of use, the number of bacteria on the towel increases 100-fold, and after 6 months of use, the number of bacteria increases again. This means that in 6 months, 1 million bacteria will have come into contact with our body with zero distance.
Towels are often contaminated with human secretions, which contain many disease-causing microbes. Long-term use of the same towel can spread many diseases, such as hemorrhoids, fungus, warts, and infectious diseases… Therefore, towels should be changed every 2-3 months for health safety.
2. Sharing towels with others
Many people have the habit of sharing towels, mostly couples, parents, children or close friends… Towels contain different bacteria depending on the user. If any user has an infectious disease, the towel may become a breeding ground for bacteria, causing repeated infections, including skin diseases, which is very dangerous when an infectious disease occurs in a private area.
3. Use a “multipurpose” towel.
China once conducted a survey on towel usage habits in five cities in the country. The results showed that 65% of the respondents used towels for multiple purposes, including drying their hair, face, mouth, body, hands and feet, สมัคร ufabet and even private areas. This improper usage habit sows the “seeds” of diseases in the body.
Using a towel in this way can transfer all sorts of germs from one part of the body to another, including potentially toxic bacteria, which is especially dangerous for the elderly, people with chronic diseases, and young children.
4. Do not dry towels after use.
Most towels are made of cotton fibers, which are tubular structures with hollow cells that can retain moisture. Humidity is one of the main conditions for bacteria to grow and reproduce. In addition, towels are often placed in hot, humid bathrooms, with poor ventilation and a lack of direct sunlight, which is a desirable growth environment for bacteria.
To avoid these risks, towels should be dried in a well-ventilated area, preferably in the sun, to speed up drying and prevent bacteria from growing.
5. Not disinfecting towels regularly
Research has shown that if you don’t wash your towel for 3 days. The number of bacteria can reach 80 million. This is like “wiping your body with a toilet bowl.” The number of bacteria can reach hundreds of millions if you don’t wash it for a week. Not to mention that many people wait until the smell appears or wait a whole month before cleaning it.
Towels that have not been washed for a long time may contain many types of pathogenic bacteria, such as E. coli, Staphylococcus aureus, Salmonella, Legionella, Cactus… In addition to skin diseases such as atopic dermatitis, folliculitis and hair loss, vaginal infections, lower urinary tract infections and more serious infections that cause kidney inflammation, upper urinary tract infections may also occur.
Therefore, towels should be washed and disinfected every 3-4 days. When cleaning towels, boil them in boiling water for 10 minutes, then wash with detergent and dry in a ventilated place with sunlight.