How often do you wash your towel? Some people wash once a week, while some, once a year. The towel is a fertile breeding ground for millions of microbes, especially those found on human skin and on the gut. No wonder the towel is one of the objects that facilitate fecal-oral contamination (literally connecting the two ends of the gut). Worse still, most people keep towels in the bathroom (near the toilet). Every flush of the toilet sends mist with millions of microbes, ranging from H.pylori, salmonella and other deadly bacteria and viruses. When you wash your hands ready for a meal, and dry them with your body towel, there's high chance you are directly ingesting your fecal matter, or, if in a shared lavatory, someone else's faeces. Unless cleaned well, viruses such as human papillomavirus (causes warts, anal cancer and cervical cancer) can be transmitted when towels are shared with infected individuals. So, what to do? 1. Launder towels once a week. 2. Use hot water and det...
By Lau-rence Generali Baimungi Im one analyst who believes in keeping my observations open! Joining a political party in any sober mind should be based on the ideologies,composition & laid out strategies of running a nation. Political parties remain the powerhouse that powers a nation forward or backward. That is what a nation with competitive parties forms good democracies. Speaking as a staunch member of Odm I must express my happiness of what the party has achived, my complaints & dissatisfaction! However-the Much hyped Orange party & the largest party in kenya is slowly but sure drifting into a miserable situation. A situation that the only remedy might be its death. Odm is greatly an architect of wanting to bring out the democratic space in this republic(oDM). The lacking space that has resulted into this country being run through underhand methods, formation of cartels & a money syndrome politricking. This D for democracy is quickly becoming silent! Today with the...