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...
When we are going through times of adversity, It is good to draw back from the emotion for a minute and remember that you have had bad times before, that you have climbed over challenges before, what ever situation you are going through, this is just one moment in time. Know in your heart that 6 months on from here or a year that it may not affect you in quite the same way, you are stronger than you give yourself credit for, you are a survivor, you have all ready learnt along the path of life what it is you need to get you through this trial in your life at this time. Give yourself the time you need to heal, have patience with your self and know that this situation will not last forever, acknowledge that you are a strong person. Do what ever you can to help yourself, if it means taking time out from the situation give yourself that time, talk to some one who has been through the same as you, but remember all is not lost, you will work your way through this situation , just as you have through other situations before in the past, remember another time, when you were not sure how you would get through it, and take time to reflect on that for a moment and see how far you have come. As the seasons change so do we, remember life moves in cycles all the time, change is constant and nothing remains the same forever, you can get through this .
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