The bathroom is one of the most dirty places in a home. It is dark and humid for a long time here, which is conducive to the growth and reproduction of various bacteria. Moreover, some lurking bacteria are really hard to detect.
If you find mold growing on shower curtains, doors, windows, or floors, clean it up right away. But the bacteria in the nozzle are invisible and intangible. Have you thought about how many there are?
In film and television dramas, there are often bathing scenes where the heroine is as beautiful as a flower, standing in the shower to rinse. But wait! Is this action healthy?
How many bacteria are there in the shower?
“Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences” once published a study and found that the shower heads we use every day, especially those made of plastic materials, are not only easy to hide bacteria, but also an excellent breeding ground for harmful bacteria.
The study was done by the University of Colorado in the United States. The researchers took samples of 45 shower heads (shower heads) in 5 states and found that almost every shower head harbored tens of thousands of bacteria.
The warm and humid shower head is indeed easy to breed bacteria and even become a breeding ground for bacteria. Of course, not all bacteria are harmful. There are some bacteria that are okay to stay in the shower, but some of them will damage your health.
For example, two pathogenic bacteria, non-tuberculous mycobacteria and Legionella pneumophila, were detected in these showers. They are harmful bacteria. When bathing, if they enter the human respiratory tract, they may cause serious lung infections and cause pneumonia.
People with strong immune function may be able to escape. However, the elderly, children, pregnant women with low resistance, and those who already suffer from respiratory diseases are very easy to be recruited, and have symptoms of general fatigue, persistent dry cough, and shortness of breath.
However, the researchers also comforted everyone, saying that the above may be the worst situation, and certainly not everyone will experience it.
Most of the germs on your showerhead are harmless bacteria. Our body deals with all kinds of bacteria every day, and the immune system has been trained to a high level. The body of an ordinary person who is not sick or hurt can handle it, so there is no need to worry too much.
How to deal with the bacteria problem in the shower?
In order to prevent the bacteria in the shower from causing great harm to our bodies, the editor believes that we can take some simple measures to deal with it. Here are 5 considerations:
