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...
Speaking at a function in Nairobi, Karua, who was celebrating her 57th birthday yesterday, said Kenyans are tired of being ruled by criminals and it is time for a reformer like Raila Odinga rules the country in 2017. She said she is ready to be his running mate in 2017 so that he can support her Presidential bid in 2022. “I am ready to support Raila Odinga in 2017 so that he can defeat these two arrogant Jubilee leaders who seem to be obsessed with power,” Karua said. On the issue of the referendum, Karua who joined the chorus two months ago said time is ripe for the country to go for a plebiscite. She expressed confidence that the Okoa Kenya Movement will win the referendum because 95 percent of Kenyans support the referendum. “We will win the referendum with a landslide,” said Karua.
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