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Dirty as hell: these items are more "dangerous" than the toilet seat
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Dirty as hell: these items are more "dangerous" than the toilet seat
If you had to think about what is the dirtiest place or object in your what would you answer? The toilet? Maybe the shower, or under the couch or appliances, and you would be partly right. However, this is not totally true. In fact, some American research has shown, through scientific studies, that certain objects in everyone's home are actually dirtier and more contaminated than the toilet or floors. Think, for example, of how often we touch certain objects, perhaps as soon as we get home, without cleaning them, and then put them away again. You will never believe what you are about to see. These objects are, for real, dirtier than our toilets, pay attention.
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Jars in the kitchen
According to a survey by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS), more than 200,000 species of insects, bacteria and fungi live in our homes. Think of spice jars, coffee or pasta jars, for example. How often are they touched? More importantly, how often do we think about washing them thoroughly to clean them of germs?
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Many other items in the kitchen are dirtier than we think
Other items much dirtier than we may think include cutting boards for cold cuts, which we often do not wash thoroughly, leaving residue on the surface. Other contaminated items include, according to Dr. Jonathan Cox, senior lecturer in microbiology at Aston University at Birmingham, kettle handles, as well as kitchen faucets, sinks, recipe books and can openers.
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Makeup applicators
Girls, let's talk mostly to you. Healthline in fact explains how bristles of makeup brushes can be really full of germs and bacteria, especially if you are in the habit of taking them with you out of the house often. These items can also cause skin irritation due to contamination from the air outside. In addition, these brushes should be washed a minimum of once a week with soap and water or cleaned with an alcoholic spray.
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Video game controllers
They are often used while eating, or squeezed tightly causing sweating of the hands. In addition to this, which in itself causes germ accumulation on the buttons and handles, these devices are often used and exchanged among family members, causing germs to be passed from person to person as well and, as a result, carrying them to other surfaces.
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Remote controls
Remote controls are one of the most enormous germ colonies we can find in our home life. In a 2020 study, it was shown that TV remotes were 20 times dirtier than the toilet seat, harboring large colonies of mold, bacteria and yeast. Also, and this is dispassionate advice, do not touch hotel remote controls. A second study found that these veritable bacteriological factories are often covered with traces of urine, semen or feces.
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Beware of cell phones: we hold them in our hands 15 hours a day
The point would not even be how much we hold them, but where we place them throughout the day. Seats and chairs in restaurants and bars, tables and desks of strangers. University of Arizona scholars have shown that cell phones (especially smartphone) are coated with 10 times more bacteria than most toilet seats. In addition, the habit of taking them into the bathroom, and then not cleaning them, is also a really infectious action that should be corrected-think about it, it's like not washing your hands.
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Sponges
Sponges are items we use every day, and also a huge colony of mold, germs and bacteria. These should be replaced at least once every two weeks, partly because the dirt can transfer onto the dishes as we wash them.
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Animal food bowls
According to the advice of the charity for USPCA, our pets' food bowls should be cleaned just as we do with our own dishes. First of all because a dirty bowl can cause a lack of appetite in the animal, and secondly because these items carry a large amount of germs and bacteria, such as salmonella.
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The pillows of beds and sofas
According to Silentnight, a British manufacturer of beds and mattresses, a grown man is capable of losing up to a liter of sweat during summer nights. It is therefore recommended that pillowcases, sheets and quilts are washed very frequently, as well as all items that may come in contact with the sheets. Sitting on the bed as soon as you get home, with the clothes you used outside, is also very wrong because you bring, where you sleep, all the bacteria accumulated during the day.
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