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 Serah Kahiu
I get shocked every time someone is hostile to me just because I'm a Kikuyu...like WTF I'm I supposed to do about being born as one?! And what's wrong with being proud to be one and to be able to speak and write the language? Makes me wonder if they still would if I got hitched to a Kavirondo brotha and be called Serah Otieno or to a Turkana Oil billionaire (goals) and be called Serah Lakitaung ... Or to a yellow haired, blue eyed odiero and be called Serah Schumacher. Y'all need to get over it and take every individual as they are not as a tribe. I refuse to carry the burden of my tribe... Nîndarega prissi
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