Washing machine
First, your washing machine receives dozens of clothing pieces every time you do laundry. That means it must clean an area far more significant than your hands. And don’t think that a dirty sweatshirt carries fewer bacteria than skin.
According to germ experts, one load of undergarments transfers roughly 500 million E. coli bacteria to your washing machine.
If you’re using a front-loading machine, which can’t continuously remove all the water from a wash cycle, these bacteria sit there until it’s time for the next load. The bottom line is that you’re washing dirty clothes with contaminated water.
A better solution is to wash your whites first with chlorine bleach. Next, put in a load of underwear, using hot water and a color-safe bleach substitute.
Once a month, you should add vinegar or bleach and run an empty cycle. This sanitizes your machine and helps lower the bacteria found on your clothes. And, of course, wash your hands after doing laundry.
Restaurant menus
Restaurants and cafes can be a few of the most common places you’re most likely to catch a virus. But the menu is the worst carrier.
Researchers at the University of Arizona took some swabs of some restaurant menus to find they that they carried a remarkable 185,000 bacterial organisms. It makes sense since many people touch menus, including staff who take other customers’ soiled flatware and dishes.
You might not be able to avoid touching a menu, but be sure to wash your hands after you put your order in. If you order from a QR menu, wash your hands, you’ll find out why in a bit.
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I like the idea you mentioned about the bacteria. It can be here anywhere you touch
and you didn’t know.
This is good advice. I can add more to the list. Toilet handle, bathtub knobs and rack pole that you hang your rag on, light fixtures, oven doors and knobs, same with microwaves, refrigerator door handles, remote controls. I believe that was said above. Pool ladders or ladders in general. Buggies at stores. Your credit cards, credit catd machines, keys. Basically everything we touch. Our hair brushes, shampoo bottles , soap bottles, and soap dispenser, computer keyboards, mouses, screens etc. I know there’s a lot more. Lol
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