Researchers are interested in the hygiene of hotel rooms …
Be careful, if you go to the hotel, do not put your fingers on the TV remote control or on the bedside lamp switch … These surfaces are almost as colonized by bacteria as the toilets and sinks, even after passing through. cleaning services! It is a team of American researchers who observed it, after having examined the magnifying glass, finally under the microscope, hotel rooms of three American states: Texas, Indiana and South Carolina …
And these bacteria are dangerous for health?
The researchers haven’t determined it, but their presence in large numbers on the remote controls and switches used speaks volumes about the overall cleanliness. Contact with contaminated surfaces is a possible mode of transmission of infection in cluster epidemics in hotels. This known factor, combined with the lack of standardization of the cleanliness of the rooms increases the risk of infection for clients, especially for immunocompromised subjects, that is to say for people with a weak immune system. bern …
So watch out for remote controls and switches… It reminds me that we must also be vigilant with cell phones…
It was an English study this time, which showed that 92% of mobile phones are nests for microbes… And especially that 16% of them are colonized by fecal bacteria of the Escherichia Coli type. However, some of these bacteria can be the cause of food poisoning, sometimes serious diarrhea, and potentially fatal infections. They were responsible for the epidemic that took place a year ago in Germany, an epidemic that killed 10 people …
What should be done ? Disinfect everything: remote controls, telephones, computer keyboards …
It’s useful. But, I also draw attention to the need to wash your hands regularly and properly with soap and water. And of course to dry them completely, if possible with a disposable paper. And let’s not forget to clean rings and wedding rings… Even though they look smooth and clean, germs can get stuck on these jewels. The hygiene teams at the Haguenau hospital in Alsace thus carried out an experiment to educate caregivers to remove them during their service. They took amazing pictures of the wedding ring magnified 5,000 times. Photographs which prove the undeniable presence of germs in the tiny stripes of the rings… So prevention is better than cure, let’s wash our hands, and when necessary put our wedding rings aside…
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