Our purses can make us sick!
We put them down everywhere – on the floor of a restaurant where food also fell; on the toddler seat or a grocery cart where leaky bottoms once sat; on the ‘microbe-laden’ sink, or worse on the floor, of public restrooms.
The bottoms of our purses are ‘bacteria cafeteria’ and, worse, are transporters of bacteria – from the house, to the car, to the restaurant, to the restroom, back to the car, and back to the dining table in our homes.
Researchers at the University of Arizona, who tested women’s purses, found that every single one had contaminants that make us sick. In a demonstration on ABC News, microbiologist Chuck Gerba tested audience members’ purses and half were found to carry coliform bacteria, or fecal matter.
‘Yuck’ is an ‘under’-statement.
An advice: wipe down your purses, briefcases and backpacks once a week with disinfectant wipes.
[Source: NewsMax.com]
Tags: bacteria, Common cold, Diarrhea, disease, Microbiology, research