How often should bath towels be washed? Microbiologists answer "more complicated than you think" to wash into bacterial temperature beds

Every day after taking a shower, we use towels or bath towels to wipe our bodies. You may think that the body that has just been cleaned is clean, so it doesn’t matter if we don’t need to wash towels every day. However, microbiology experts want to tell you that towels need to be cleaned more frequently than you think.

How often should we wash towels?

According to the report of "Daily Post", Primrose Freestone, a PhD in Clinical Microbiology at the University of Laester, UK, pointed out that the standard for towel cleaning frequency should be "cleaning every two times used", and patients with low immune system or sickness should even clean every time they are used up.

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When we dry our bodies with bath towels and towels, the towels will be stained with thousands of skin cells and millions of microorganisms. Studies have found that the towels used contain a lot of bacteria, including harmful ones: medica sinensis, Staphylococcus aureus, spores and Klebsiella, which may cause other infections such as inflammation, asthma, allergies, skin irritation, etc.

Oxygen, warm temperature, moisture, residual waste, human cells... are all the "foods" that microorganisms love the most. The towels used will not dry immediately, and the materials are thicker and easy to absorb water. This nutrient, moisture and warm environment makes bacteria and bacteria very easy to grow.

Every time you use a towel again, the sweat, body fluid, skin cells and microorganisms you encounter will accumulate gradually. If the towel you have used for a long time sounds moldy and odor, it is dispersed by the prolonged organic compounds produced by bacteria and fungi.

How to properly clean used towels?

To avoid bacterial infection, in addition to prohibiting sharing of towels, bath towels, and handkerchiefs, you should also clean them regularly.

It is recommended to use 60°C to clean with laundry detergent. Cleaning with hot water can kill most bacteria and fungi, and prevent towels from producing unpleasant and strange smell. After washing the towels, they should also be taken to the sun to dry or dry. The treated towels should be dissipated with a fresh and clean smell like cotton.

also reminds that if the used wet towels do not need to be cleaned immediately, do not directly put them in the laundry basket. The moisture of the wet towels without being peeled will not easily evaporate. The moisture of the dampness will cause bacteria to multiply, which may not only cause difficult odors to be washed away, but may even contaminate other clothes. It is recommended to hang them up first and dry them in the wind, and then put them in the laundry machine for cleaning when they have time.