Dear MEL Topic Readers,
Why you probably aren't washing your towels often enough
How often do you wash your towels? Do you wash them regularly or when they are visually dirty? Towels can become contaminated fast with bacteria from our skin, the air, and toilet flushes. When you touch your mouth, nose, or eyes after drying your hands or body with a towel, you transmit those bacteria from the towel to your body. For example, kitchen towels that are used on dishes, hands, and surfaces could spread foodborne pathogens and could cause gastroenteric infections resulting from Salmonella, Norovirus, and E. coli. Also, if you use a towel that was used by a person vomiting or with diarrhea, you could be infected with the same disease. That’s why public places use paper towels or hand driers. Indeed, even though the fluffy fibers still look clean, you may wash the towel regularly like your underwear, which you most likely wash every day and wear only for yourself.
Read the article and learn how invisibly unclean the towels in your home are.
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20250110-how-often-you-should-wash-your-towels-according-to-science
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