Today I read an article about how shower heads are loaded with pathogens and bacteria that can cause diseases. Click here for the article.
Who: Everyone that uses a shower and doesn't regularly clean the shower head. They can become, unknowingly, covered in sickness causing germs, that may harm the people with weak immune systems. We may become carriers of dangerous diseases.
What: The article is about how shower heads have tons of pathogens and germs that can harm you. For example there is mycobacterium avium that causes a plumonary disease. The best thing you can do to prevent this is to change your shower head in order to get rid of all the germs. If you try to hand clean it, it will be very difficult, trying to get all the nooks and crannies, and apparently cleaners only get rid of some of the germs. But most of the germs affect only the people with compromised immune systems. Getting a metal shower head may help keep clean and away from bacteria because some pathogens attach them selves more easily to plastics.
When: This happens when people take a shower. The water flows through the shower head and car
ries the mycobacterium, and other bacterias through the shower head and onto a person.
ries the mycobacterium, and other bacterias through the shower head and onto a person.Where: In shower heads where water stays, and moisture builds up created bacteria. Also, they bacteria is on the person too, so we could be considered a where.
Why: Because the water in the shower head stays there and becomes dirty over time creating bacteria, that will be eventually washed away from the head, but onto a persons head and body, and possibly into cuts where it can infect.
Personally I found this pretty scary. I always thought a shower cleaned us and didn't make us more dirty than we already were. Sure it does clean off the mud and grime, but the germs are probably more dangerous that mud and grime. I'm glad I have a good immune system, or I may have been suffering from a shower induced disease. Hopefully, anybody who reads this article will not stop taking a shower, but will make sure their shower head is clean and or get a new shower head that's fully metal in order to protect them selves.
Caption: This picture shows a growth of mold in a shower head, that hadn't been cleaned in a while.
~swimmer writer girl
1st image from: www.gadgetgrid.com
2nd image from: www.dspinspections.com
Information from: www.livescience.com
3rd image caption: Mycobacterium Avium
3rd image source: http://cienciaaldia.wordpress.com/2009/09/15/ducharse-puede-ser-malo-para-la-salud/
