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Bath towel needs frequent wash: Health experts

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03:38 PM, 9 Jan, 2017
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Bath towel needs frequent wash: Health experts

New York (Web Desk): The health experts recommended frequent washing for bath towels after about three uses to remove millions of bacteria; fungi; dead skin cells; salivary, anal and urinary secretions; and many other germs including droplets from your toilet lingering in your bathroom dead skin cells.


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While most of these microbes aren’t likely to harm you, given that most of them probably came from your own body, they’re there, and they’re multiplying quickly.

Philip Tierno, a microbiologist and pathologist at the New York University School of Medicine said that if you can dry it completely, you must not use it more than 3 times.

Tierno said, you must hang towel somewhere dry so that it can completely air out. “If there is odor coming from the towel or the towel is damp, mircobes are growing. So it should be washed,” microbiologist said.

Towels serve as ideal breading grounds for germs because they contain many of the requirements for microbial life: water, warm temperatures, oxygen, food, and a netural pH. The human body supplies these ideal living conditions, which is why our entire body is covered in them inside and out.

Towels not only soak moisture from your body but also the microbes and other secretions such as cellular debris that live on the surface of your body get deposited onto your towel. Your cellular debris and other deposits from the air serve as food for the microbes, and the moisture supplies water at a neutral pH.

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Tierno further added that it’s hard to say whether the microbes growing on your towel are harmful, since most germs in our households aren’t dangerous.

Health experts warned that if you share your towel with others, you could potentially come into contact with organisms that your body isn’t used to deal with, such as Staphylococcus aureus, which may cause pimples, or an infection.

A laundry expert advised to use vinegar in place of fabric softener while washing towel to avoid odors. She explained that Fabric softener residue traps odors but the vinegar strips it away (as a general rule, skipping the softener also keeps most towels absorbent).

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