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...
Pictured:A baby boy born with four legs and four arms has undergone complex surgery to remove the extra limbs.
The 13-day-old boy was born weighing just 3kg at a hospital in southern China on April 2 with four additional arms and legs on the right side of his body. His conjoined twin failed to fully develop in the womb and the surviving baby was born with his arms and legs. The child is now in a stable condition at Guangzhou Women and Children's Medial Center after an operation to remove the limbs. The babywas born with pneumonia and congenital heart disease and is expected to remain in hospital for some time. His father, named only as Mr Chen, is reported by the Global Times to have blamed himself for his son's condition as he had not taken good care of his wife during pregnancy. He said: "I only cared about my work. I just thought of making money instead of taking her to hospital for a medical checkup." Yu Jiaking, chief surgeon at the hospital, said: "They were supposed to be twins, but one had underdeveloped and became deformed."
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