Bacteria on Purses
HRinNH
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I hope you haven't just eaten your lunch. I just received the following in an e-mail...and checked it out and it's true according to the link to the "snopes" website at the bottom.
Cheryl C.
Bacteria on Purses
This is a factual report aired today on Health News, Fox 5, Atlanta, GA. A study was recently performed on women's purses. A health team went to a local mall and took samples from the bottom of 50 women's purses. The purses were swabbed with cotton swabs along the entire bottom of the purses and placed into special containers. The swabs were then processed at a local laboratory.
The Health Report also showed where women place their purses: public restrooms (on the floor beside the toilet), kitchen counters & kitchen
tables, on tables & chairs in restaurants, etc. The results of the laboratory tests contained the following most serious result: 1 out of 4 purses contained E COLI. Other extremely serious bacteria also were listed, including Hepatitis.
They recommended that women should DAILY wipe their purses (particularly the bottom) with a disinfectant wipe and to be extremely careful where you set your purse. Most important, do NOT place your purse on a table (anywhere) where you will eat or on a kitchen counter, and do not put anywhere close to a toilet. Remember, when you flush a toilet, the spray goes a distance that is unrecognizable by the human eye.
WASH YOUR HANDS as often as you can! Keep an antibacterial hand sanitizer cleaner (no water needed) in your purse and use it often! And as soon as you get home from shopping (or wherever you have been and used your purse), immediately wipe it all over with a disinfectant wipe.
MEN who do not wash their hands after relieving themselves should be ASHAMED! Not only that, they are seriously affecting your health and their own. My husband has told me many, many times (over 50% ratio) that he has seen men in public restrooms relieve themselves, zip up, and
immediately leave the restroom without washing their hands!! Women, get on your men and be sure they are washing thoroughly after using the restroom.
My hubby also noted that everyone spends all this time washing their hands and then grabs the door handle to exit the restroom. So DUH! All those other folks who did NOT wash their hands have their germs all over the door handle! And I have seen many women who do NOT wash their hands after using the restroom. So, use that paper towel you dried your hands on to open the door and then dispose of it in the closest waste receptacle. (Women, please do not put it in your purse!).
[url]http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/purse.asp[/url]
Cheryl C.
Bacteria on Purses
This is a factual report aired today on Health News, Fox 5, Atlanta, GA. A study was recently performed on women's purses. A health team went to a local mall and took samples from the bottom of 50 women's purses. The purses were swabbed with cotton swabs along the entire bottom of the purses and placed into special containers. The swabs were then processed at a local laboratory.
The Health Report also showed where women place their purses: public restrooms (on the floor beside the toilet), kitchen counters & kitchen
tables, on tables & chairs in restaurants, etc. The results of the laboratory tests contained the following most serious result: 1 out of 4 purses contained E COLI. Other extremely serious bacteria also were listed, including Hepatitis.
They recommended that women should DAILY wipe their purses (particularly the bottom) with a disinfectant wipe and to be extremely careful where you set your purse. Most important, do NOT place your purse on a table (anywhere) where you will eat or on a kitchen counter, and do not put anywhere close to a toilet. Remember, when you flush a toilet, the spray goes a distance that is unrecognizable by the human eye.
WASH YOUR HANDS as often as you can! Keep an antibacterial hand sanitizer cleaner (no water needed) in your purse and use it often! And as soon as you get home from shopping (or wherever you have been and used your purse), immediately wipe it all over with a disinfectant wipe.
MEN who do not wash their hands after relieving themselves should be ASHAMED! Not only that, they are seriously affecting your health and their own. My husband has told me many, many times (over 50% ratio) that he has seen men in public restrooms relieve themselves, zip up, and
immediately leave the restroom without washing their hands!! Women, get on your men and be sure they are washing thoroughly after using the restroom.
My hubby also noted that everyone spends all this time washing their hands and then grabs the door handle to exit the restroom. So DUH! All those other folks who did NOT wash their hands have their germs all over the door handle! And I have seen many women who do NOT wash their hands after using the restroom. So, use that paper towel you dried your hands on to open the door and then dispose of it in the closest waste receptacle. (Women, please do not put it in your purse!).
[url]http://www.snopes.com/medical/disease/purse.asp[/url]
Comments
This is just gross.....
Cheryl C.
God, there is just no escape from all these germs. We're all gonna die!!!!