20 Things You Didn't Know About Hygeine...
20 Things You Didn't Know About ... Hygiene
By Liza Lentini and David Mouzon
Provided by Discover magazine
1. Hygiene comes from the name "Hygieia," the Greek goddess of health, cleanliness and ... the Moon. Ancient Greek gods apparently worked double shifts.
2. The human body is home to some 1,000 species of bacteria. There are more germs on your body than people in the United States.
3. Not tonight dear, I just washed my hands: Anti-bacterial soap is no more effective at preventing infection than regular soap, and triclosan (the active ingredient) can mess with your sex hormones.
4. Save the germs! A study of over 11,000 children determined that an overly hygienic environment increases the risk of eczema and asthma.
5. Monks of the Jain Dharma (a minority religion in India) are forbidden to bathe any part of their bodies besides the hands and feet, believing the act of bathing might jeopardize the lives of millions of microorganisms.
6. It's a good thing they're monks.
7. Soap gets its name from the mythological Mount Sapo. According to legend, fat and wood ash from animal sacrifices there washed into the Tiber River, creating a rudimentary cleaning agent that aided women doing their washing.
8. Ancient Egyptians and Aztecs rubbed urine on their skin to treat cuts and burns. Urea, a key chemical in urine, is known to kill fungi and bacteria.
9. In a small victory for cleanliness, England's medieval king Henry IV required his knights to bathe at least once in their lives -- during their ritual knighthood ceremonies.
10. That's their excuse, anyway: Excrement dumped out of windows into the streets in 18th-century London contaminated the city's water supply and forced locals to drink gin instead.
11. A seventh grader in Florida recently won her school science fair by proving there are more bacteria in ice machines at fast-food restaurants than in toilet-bowl water.
12. There's no "five-second rule" when it comes to dropping food on the ground. Bacteria need no time at all to contaminate food.
13. The first true toothbrush, consisting of Siberian pig-hair bristles wired into carved cattle-bone handles, was invented in China in 1498. But tooth brushing didn't become routine in the United States until it was enforced on soldiers during World War II.
14. Please don't squeeze the corncob. In 1935, Northern Tissue proudly introduced "splinter-free" toilet paper. Previous toilet paper options included tundra moss for Eskimos, a sponge with salt water for Romans, and -- hopefully splinter-free -- corncobs in the American West.
15. NASA recently spent $23.4 million designing a space-shuttle toilet that would defy zero gravity with suction technology at 850 liters of airflow per minute. That's a lot of money for a toilet that sucks.
16. In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. campaigned for basic sanitation in hospitals. But this clashed with social ideas of the time and met with widespread disdain. Charles Meigs, a prominent American obstetrician, retorted, "Doctors are gentlemen, and gentlemen's hands are clean."
17. Up to a quarter of all women giving birth in European and American hospitals in the 17th through 19th centuries died of puerperal fever, an infection spread by unhygienic nurses and doctors.
18. TV kills! University of Arizona researchers determined that television remotes are the worst carriers of bacteria in hospital rooms, worse even than toilet handles. Remotes spread antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus, which contributes to the 90,000 annual deaths from infection acquired in hospitals.
19. It is now believed President James Garfield died not from the bullet fired by Charles Guiteau but because the medical team treated the president with manure-stained hands, causing a severe infection that killed him three months later.
20. What on earth made them think manure-stained hands were remotely acceptable to treat anyone?
start saving all kind of bacteria...no need nebu
# 8 use to wiped in it to the eyes to cured soreyes, is it? eeerrrrwwwkkk
Malley & GT morning guys...
"Build bridges instead of walls and you will find a friend..."
before you can spread ANYTHING over jelly fish stings, you have to neutralize the poison that was injected...ammonia is the one thing that will do that very quickly. Which is why urine, which is mostly ammonia, works so well. Just about any scuba diving first aid kit will contain a small vial of ammonia just for that purpose.
As far as Man of War jellies...ooo yeah..we get those in certain times of the year en masse, on the Texas coast. You can drive your car along and hear them all popping under your tires...Bad thing about those is the tentacles are sooooooooooo long that the jelly body can be far up on the beach and the tentacles can still be in the water or elsewhere in the sand and still be active even tho the jelly is long dead.
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
The best recipe to remove sea urchins needles is to pour hot candle wax, after is cold, just peel the cold wax and those broken urchins needles will come out.
For jelly fish stings is best to spread lots of cold water and aloe vera gel over the affected areas, so the jelly fish chemicals are dissipated.
I learn this from some old fisherman's in my town.
If you could find calamine liquid lotion, it works like a charm for jelly fish stings.
Some Jelly fish species have stingers and are loaded with poison that could affect your heart beats and nervous system. Those are the worst kind, example: Man of war jelly fish has a reputation of deadly encounters.
"Monks of the Jain Dharma (a minority religion in India) are forbidden to bathe any part of their bodies besides the hands and feet, believing the act of bathing might jeopardize the lives of millions of microorganisms."
hmmmmmm... or so i thought it's only cows... holy cows! even the minutest microorganism?
Thanks lovinni...will remember that..
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HE WHO DARES WINS
ok fine will do :?
when you get stung by a sea urchin...fresh urine is the medication!
I think I've discovered the secret of life - you just hang around until you get used to it. ~Charles Schulz
i cant read all that am already sleepy and reading all that i will pass out in no time.
Depends on how clean your floor is. See this article:
http://www.aces.uiuc.edu/news/stories/news2467.html
who will read all that.
.4. Save the germs! A study of over 11,000 children determined that an overly hygienic environment increases the risk of eczema and asthma.
-really?????/
-so shocking...??????
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-gotta start saving germs from now on....
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tell you what...when I taught school, the little kids who were NEVER sick, were the ones who lived in the filthiest homes..Guess it was that protective layer of dirt that kept the germs out!!
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
It has been known for thousands of years that silver can be an effective anti-vampire agent.
Silver is capable of killing single brain celled suckers such as Dracula, Nosferatu', Alucard and their evil wifes.
Due to the way that silver acts on these bloodsuckers they do not become immune to silver as they do with antibiotics, cross, garlic and priests which actually poison the cell.
As well as killing the bloodsuckers, modern science has also found that silver seems to increase healing effects on plants and animals if applied to wounds or sores.
Buy silver!
urine is a very "clean" liquid..as its been filtered many many times as it goes through the system. The reason people end up with urinary tract infections is when dirt or bacteria is allowed to enter, thus infecting the bladder, or "holding tank" so to speak.
Feces, however is a waste byproduct and NOT filtered...
Grant me the senility to forget the people I never liked,the good fortune to run into the ones I do,and the eyesight to tell the difference.
double post
they should modernise this and tell ppl toilet seats are for sitting on, not squatting.
unsure what's worse, footprints on the toilet seat or skid marks in the bowl.
Thanks Scarly that confirms that a bit of dirt or may be a lot of dirt is good for your imune system..
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HE WHO DARES WINS
Item 20 ... refer to item 8!
They were obviously confused!
Did you Google it first?