Have you ever noticed a women set her handbags on a public toilet floor, then soon thereafter put it on a dining table? It happens more often than you realize! Think about it. It’s not always restaurant food that causes stomach distress.
Sometimes, what you don’t know can make you sick! Read on to understand why.
It’s something just about every woman carries with them. While women may know what’s inside their handbags, they have no idea what’s on the outside, especially the bottom.
Women carry handbags everywhere, from their office to public toilets to the floor of their car, etc. Most women won’t be caught without their handbags, but never stop to think about where their handbag goes as it travels with them throughout the day?
Nelson Laboratories, in Salt Lake City, conducted tests to determine if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria.
Most women admitted that 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 they talked to told them 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 they tested were not only high in bacteria, but also high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections; staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections. Salmonella and e-coli found on tested 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. The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contamination of all tested handbags. “They found some type of feces or possibly vomit,” 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.
So the moral of this story is that handbags won’t kill you, but they have the potential to make you very sick if put it on places where you eat or prepare food. Women should use hooks to hang their handbag at home and in toilets, and shouldn’t put them on desks, restaurant tables or kitchen counter-tops.
Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes. If you wouldn’t think about putting a pair of shoes on your counter-tops, that’s the same thing you’re doing when you put your handbag on the counter-tops.
Women’s handbags go where individuals before them have walked, sat, sneezed, coughed, spat, urinated, pooped, etc! Tose are not the type of things most people would knowingly bring home with them.
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 ALONG TO YOUR GRANDMOTHERS, MOMS, DAUGHTERS, GRANDDAUGHTERS, ETC.
Tags: Advice, Good Choices, Health
Yuck. I put my bags on the floor when I get home. I don’t even like to sit on my bed in the pants I’ve worn all day because you never know what you sat in. I don’t need to be sleeping with all of those scary germs!