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HANDBAGS
Have you ever noticed -girls who set their handbags on public toilet
floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table?
Happens a lot !
It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress.
Sometimes 'what you don't know will hurt you'!
Read on.............
Mom got so upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags
down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food. She always
said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been.
It's something just about every woman carries with them. While we may
know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the
outside? Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public
toilets to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their
handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes
during the day.
'I drive a school bus, so my handbag has been on the floor of the bus a
lot,' says one woman. 'On! The floor of my car, and in toilets.'
'I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and on the floor of the
toilet,' says another woman 'and of course in my home which should be
clean.'
We decided to find out if handbags harbour a lot of bacteria. We learned
how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake , and then we set
out to test the average woman's handbag.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom
of their handbag. Most said at home they usually set their handbags on
top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared.
Most of the ladies we talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if
their handbags were at least a little bit dirty.
It turns out handbags are so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist
who tested them was shocked.
Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the handbags
tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of
bacteria.
Pseudomonas can cause eye infections
staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections
and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very
sick
In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella,
and that's not the worst of it. 'There is faecal contamination on the
handbags' says Amy. Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than
cloth handbags, and lifestyle seemed to play a role.
People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with
one exception.
The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the
worst contaminations of all. 'Some type of faeces, or possibly vomit'
says Amy.
So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't kill you, but it
does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places
where you eat. Use hooks to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and
don't put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen
countertop.
Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a
pair of shoes. 'If you think about putting a pair of shoes on your
countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your handbag
on the countertops.'
Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have walked, sat,
sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc!
Do you really want to bring that home with you?
The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a handbag will help.
Wash cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of
leather handbags.
THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!! PLEASE PASS THIS ON TO YOUR GRANDMOTHERS, MOMS,
DAUGHTERS, GRANDDAUGHTERS AND GIRLFRIENDS !!!
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R Shanbhag “Raj”
Abu Dhabi, UAE
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