How often do you wash your pajamas? If you think that pajamas are only worn at home every day, which are not easy to get dirty and do not need to be washed frequently, you are very wrong.
According to the daily mail of January 9, a British survey of 2410 couples’ habits of wearing pajamas and washing found that men only wash them once every two weeks, while women only wash them once every 17 days. 51% of the respondents believed that it was unnecessary to wash pajamas regularly because they only wore them for a few hours every night; 61% said they didn’t wash often because there were no pajamas to replace; Another 54% of women wear several sets of pajamas in turn, so they often forget how long a set of pajamas has been worn.
Sally Bloomfield, a professor at the London School of hygiene and tropical medicine, said that if the intimate pajamas were not washed for a long time, microorganisms and skin exfoliated cells would accumulate on the pajamas in large quantities, bringing health risks. For example, if Staphylococcus enters a wound, it will cause infection; When Escherichia coli enters the urinary tract, it will lead to cystitis. In addition, microorganisms can spread from person to person. If you don’t wash your pajamas often, you may transfer microorganisms to other clothes. If your pajamas have been seriously infected by microorganisms, the bacteria will also be transferred to other clothes during cleaning, and then spread to other people.
Therefore, Bloomfield recommends that you wash your pajamas at least once a week. Washing can remove most microorganisms, but if the clothes have been worn for two weeks, the effect is not necessarily good. Especially for people living in collective dormitories or families with several children. At this time, it is recommended to use disinfection and cleaning products appropriately.
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