admin, do u mind if i post this? its non-islamic. on the contrary, its hygene related. thought it may benefit the ladies who do have handbags. as it may take affect on their family including children.
Have you ever noticed girls who sit their purses
on public restroom floors - then go directly to their dining tables
and set it on the table? 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...
"Mom got so upset when guests came in the door
and plopped
their purses down on the counter where she was
cooking or
setting up food. She always said that purses
are
really dirty, because of where they have been."
Smart Momma!!!
It's something just about every woman carries
with her.
While we may know what's inside our purses, do
you have any idea what's on the outside?
Shauna Lake put purses to the test - for
bacteria - with
surprising results.
You may think twice about where you put your
purse. Women
carry purses everywhere; from the office to
public restrooms
to the floor of the car.
Most women won't be caught without their
purses, but did you
ever stop to think about where your purse goes
during the day?
"I drive a school bus, so my purse has been on
the floor of
the bus a lot," says one woman. "On the floor
of
my car, and
in restrooms."
"I put my purse in grocery shopping carts, on
the floor of
bathroom stalls while changing a diaper," says
another woman
"and of course in my home which should be
clean."
We decided to find out if purses harbor a lot
of
bacteria. We
learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories
in Salt Lake,
then we set out to test the average woman's
purse.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think
about what was on
the bottom of their purse. Most said at home
they usually set
their purses on top of kitchen tables and
counters where food
is prepared. Most of the ladies we talked to
told us they
wouldn't be surprised if their purses were at
least a little bit dirty.
It turns out purses are so surprisingly dirty,
even the
microbiologist who tested them was shocked.
Microbiologist Amy
Karren of Nelson Labs says nearly all of the
purses 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 purses could make people very sick. In one
sampling, four of five purses tested positive for salmonella, and
that's
not the worst of it. "There is fecal contamination on the purses,"
says
Amy.
Leather or vinyl purses tended to be cleaner
than cloth purses,
and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People
with
kids tended to
have dirtier purses than those without, with
one
exception.
The purse of one single woman who frequented
nightclubs had one of the worst contaminations of all. "Some type of
feces, or
possibly vomit" says Amy.
So the moral of this story - your purse won't
kill you, but it
does has the potential to make you very sick if
you keep it on places where you eat. Use hooks to hang your purse at
home and
in restrooms, and don't put it on your desk, a
restaurant table,
or on your kitchen countertop.
Experts say you should think of your purse the
same way you
would a pair of shoes. "If you think about
putting a pair of
shoes onto your countertops, that's the same
thing you're doing
when you put your purse on the countertops" -
your purse has gone where individuals before you have sneezed,
coughed,
spat, urinated, emptied bowels, etc! Do you really want to bring that
home with you?
The microbiologists at Nelson also said
cleaning
a purse will
help. Wash cloth purses and use leather
cleaner
to clean the bottom of leather purses.
