Dangerous Pathogens Live in Showerheads, page 1
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Topic started on 14-9-2009 @ 03:16 PM by Aggie Man
I came across this and thought I would share.

dsc.discovery.com...

Sept. 14, 2009 -- It's warm and damp and dark -- the perfect place for bacteria to nestle and stay for a while.

It turns out that that's just what they do -- in your showerhead.

What's more, says a new study, the mucky film of microorganisms lining the inside of your showerhead often harbors bacteria that can cause lung disease, including a cough, fever, fatigue and weight loss.

These mycobacteria -- close relatives of the bacterium that causes tuberculosis -- can be more than 100 times more prevalent in showerheads than in the water in the pipes just upstream, a research team found.


As I was reading the article, I thought to myself "Well, I guess I'll go remove my shower heads and give 'em a good cleaning"....then I read this:

Disinfecting the showerhead might make things worse, the researchers found. They tried cleaning one showerhead with bleach and found that it carried even more mycobacteria after the cleaning than before.


Now, I've always been a shower person. BUT, I believe that I may have to switch over to baths. Oh what a pain...


reply posted on 14-9-2009 @ 05:26 PM by burdman30ott6
If they're inside your showerhead, then don't you think they're also inside your tub spiggot, sink faucet, etc? The best course of action for the germaphobe is probably to err on the side of caution and simply not bathe at all.

I file "news" items like this in the "We want you to always be afraid of something" folder. Seems like it's a contest among the MSM to see who can break the latest scare story first. For instance, how often have you been watching TV just before the late night news comes on and seen a preview of the news with a scare story leading the way? Everytime I see the preview for the news it's ALWAYS some variant of this: "Our ACTION NEWS SUPERTEAM FORCE DELTA discovered a common everyday item you probably have sitting in your livingroom right now could endanger your safety and may KILL YOUR CHILDREN!!! We'll tell you what it is and what to about it at 11." and then you sit there, fingernails in a pile of spit at your feet from worrying the last 13 minutes over what the hell is sitting somewhere in your home awaiting the perfect oportunity to jump out and cause your untimely death. Finally, after the top stories, weather outlook, quick sports minute, and two commercial blocks (with the caustic warning being used as a lead in to make sure you keep watching) some see ya next tuesday comes on and says that 4 children in the past decade years have accidentally esphyxiated themselves by sucking the protective plastic cover off brand new VCR LCD display windows into their esophagus because they had parents too stupid to realize those plastic sheets were to be removed after pruchase (not to mention too unattentive to notice Junior was felating the new VCR).

This is why I refuse to live my life in fear. It's what "They" want us to do and I believe in defying authority at all costs.
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