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...
A Florida woman has up to 50 orgasms a day due to a rare medical condition, and has been ordered to abstain from sexual contact. Amanda Gryce, 24, says that she has suffered from Persistent Genital Arousal Disorder since she was six. “It’s not pleasurable,” Gryce said. “It has become like torture.” She is constantly aroused by anything from riding in a car to a loud bass, reports the Daily Mail. The orgasms are uncontrollable and sometimes happen five or ten times in an hour — even in public. ‘It kills me inside,” Gryce said. “I just have to put on a smile and pretend that nothing’s wrong.” She didn’t seek help until recently because she was ashamed, and has had trouble getting doctors to take her condition seriously. But she is now working with Dr. Robert Echenberg, a pelvic pain expert, to manage her condition and reduce the intensity of the orgasms. “Taking control over the disorder rather then it controlling me is a dream come true,” said Gryce. She said she takes medication to numb the areas and exercises to keep her mind off it. She and her boyfriend, Stuart Triplett, 22, are now celibate under doctor’s orders, although she used sex in the past as a coping mechanism. It was difficult to explain her disorder to Triplett, Gryce said, “but he’s so supportive, he completely understands and he is just my rock.” Triplett told The Daily Mail it was love at first sight with Gryce — the two met through an online dating website. “Dealing with her symptoms at first was kind of a challenge, because I didn’t quite know how to approach it the right way,” said Triplett. Gryce was once at the point of despair, but is hopeful she can take control of her condition through treatment. “I finally feel like I’m going to have a more normal life — and eventually a positive sex life,” said Gryce.
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