Have you ever noticed women who set their handbags on public toilet floors, then go directly to their dining tables and set it on the table?
It happens a lot! It's not always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes "what you don't know will hurt you"!
Read on...
Did your Mom get upset when guests came in the door and plopped their handbags down on the counter where she was cooking or setting up food? She may have said that handbags are really dirty, because of where they have been. She was right ! It's something just about every woman carries with her.
While we may know what's inside our handbags, do you have any idea what's on the outside?
Women carry handbags everywhere; from the office to public toilets to the floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their handbags, but did you ever stop to think about where your handbag goes during the day?
"I drive my kids to & from school & run errands all day, so my handbag has been on the floor of my car a lot," says one woman. "I put my handbag in grocery shopping carts and have put it on the floor of a public toilet, (if the door hook is broken or I am in a hurry), admits another harried Mom.
One group decided to find out if handbags harbor a lot of bacteria.
Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, set out to test the average woman's handbag. Most women told them they didn't stop to think about what was on the bottom of their handbag. Some said, at home, they usually set their handbags on top of kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared. Many ladies told them they wouldn't be surprised if their handbags were at least a little bit dirty. It turns out handbags were so surprisingly dirty, even the microbiologist who tested them was shocked…
Microbiologist Amy Karen of Nelson Labs said:
“Nearly all of the handbags tested were not only high in bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria. Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous can cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on the handbags could make people very sick. In one sampling, four of five handbags tested positive for salmonella.
(Leather or vinyl handbags tended to be cleaner than cloth handbags,
and lifestyle seemed to play a role)."
"People with kids tended to have dirtier handbags than those without, with one exception. The handbag of one single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all ," says Amy.
So the moral of this story is that your handbag won't kill you, but it does have the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on places where you eat. USE PURSE HOOKS to hang your handbag at home and in toilets, and don't put your bag on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen countertop. Experts say you should think of your handbag the same way you would a pair of shoes... Would you think about putting a pair of shoes onto your countertops? I doubt it.
Yet, that's the same thing that you're doing when you put your handbag on the countertops.
Your handbag has gone where individuals before you have sneezed, coughed, etc! Do you really want to bring that home with you?
The microbiologists at Nelson said cleaning a handbag will help. Wash your cloth handbags and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom of leather handbags.
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