Towels - a place with potential health hazards

If you want to stay healthy and avoid illness, you should wash your towels after 3 uses.

Towels are a familiar item in human life. However, according to many experts, they pose many potential health risks.

According to Daily Mail, towels such as bath towels, face towels, and dish towels are a haven for bacteria, fungi, dead skin, bodily fluids, and many other germs lurking in your bathroom.

Professor Philip Tierno, a microbiologist and pathologist at the New York University School of Medicine, recommends that we wash our towels after three times washing our faces to avoid infection from pathogenic bacteria in the bathroom. Professor Tierono also recommends using dry towels.

Towels are an ideal environment for bacteria and pathogens to grow. Photo: Hiltontohome.

"A wet towel can breed bacteria. A smelly towel or any place that smells is a breeding ground for bacteria. So it has to be washed," said Professor Tierno.

Professor Tierno said it is difficult to confirm whether the bacteria that exist on towels are harmful or not because most household pathogens do not come from towels alone. However, people who share towels with others are at a much higher risk of getting sick.

The reason is that people who share towels can come into contact with bacteria from other people's bodies, so they cannot deal with these pathogens in time. These include Staphylococcus aureus, a type of bacteria that can cause acne and skin infections.

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