If you have not done it recently, it might be an idea to wash your gloves. They are a hidden bacteria bomb.
The average glove is not less than five times as dirty as the average toiletbræt, shows a new study by hygiejnevirksomheden Initial.
– It is a question of people not to get washed gloves often enough. They forget it a little, and we try to focus on the company, says Maria Brix Bale, who is a biologist in the Initial, to Ekstra Bladet.
the Worst is the situation with polyesterhandsker, while wool lined is the cleanest in the study, although this type of material also is far above what one can describe as clean.
the Study of the gloves are made with a test that measures the number of microorganisms on a surface. When you measure the purity of a surface, the surface may be described as clean, if the number of devices is less than 200. Is the number between 200 and 500, is the purity mediocre, while the categorized as dirty, if the number of units is over 500.
on average, showed the 50 tested gloves a level of 1040 units. A toiletbræt typically have in the region of 200 units, showing previous studies from the Initial.
– The more bacteria and the more dirty it is, the greater the risk is that you go and get sick. We need to incorporate hygiene many more places, explains Maria Brix Bale.
in addition to the gloves together is also very many bacteria at trappegelændere, keyboards, telephones and coffee makers.
Surprisingly enough was the gloves dirtier on the inside than on the outside. The most dirty glove measured 3233 units on the inside and is thus 16 times as dirty as the average toiletbræt.
An obvious place to put the check is, therefore, to wash your hands regularly, both to avoid creating a bakteriefest in the gloves and to avoid exposing themselves and others to prevent infection when you take the gloves off again.
– A good hand hygiene can save us for the really very disease. By washing your hands properly and regularly, you come a long way in relation to at least risk for the flu, colds and other diseases, just as you do to not to infect others, says Maria Brix Bale.
She explains that the more germs and illness there is, the more antibiotics are also used. And if you want to prevent that bacteria will multirestente, so as to require it to be turned down for the use of antibiotics.
Maria Brix Bale recommends the use of two to three minutes to wash his hands thoroughly, so there is dirt under the nails and on the back of the hand and the palm of the hand. In addition, calls she to you think about to use håndsprit.
