Wash your hands and take off your shoes!

I'm being emphatic for such mundane material, I know.

It started with my sisters recently mentioning an article about how dirty planes are. It mentioned things like the airlines not washing the blankets between uses, and things like that, none of which was that surprising. The only thing that kind of caught me off-guard was fecal matter on trays.

I thought maybe passengers traveling with babies would not necessarily use the trays for diaper changes, but somehow in trying to move things around would get some on there. Truly, I did not really think that much until someone on the news was saying that bachelors have dirtier homes than single women, and again, there was fecal matter on surfaces like coffee tables.

My first thought was that men just don't wash enough. If you leave it on your hands, it can end up on all manner of things that you touch. Just because you can't see it doesn't mean that it's not there, nor does it mean that it can't get you sick.

Wash your hands!

Having now searched for articles, there is more to the issues. This one article indicates that a big culprit is men putting there shoes on the table, because walking around over time will generally get you at least some fecal matter:


http://www.nbcnews.com/id/41514712/ns/health-mens_health/t/dirty-truth-bachelor-pads-have-times-more-germs/#.U0q-eVchVio

This is a good reason to take off your shoes when you enter your house. I'm not saying not to put your feet on the table, but not with shoes on.

There are probably a lot of things that can be said about cleaning here as well, and I will probably get to them in some future post. For now, if you can spread less, that is one less thing to worry about.

It's not just fecal matter. Taking off your shoes can also help with pollen, and of course as the article points out, the fecal bugs also indicate that the presence of other bugs that are culprits in the spread of colds, flu, and diarrhea is likely. Why track these things all over your house?

And then wash your hands:

http://www.cdc.gov/handwashing/