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You don’t want to be complicated so you and your
partner share the same toothbrush? Using two separate towels seems kind
of ridiculous to you? Listen up, you’ve been doing it all wrong. Start
caring about your health now and learn some very important facts about
the items you should not be sharing with anyone.
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Headphones.
Seriously, earbuds generate a lot of bacteria from people’s ears.
Bacteria such as staph (staphylococcus) can stay in your earwax and
cause infections and pustules. Next time you forget your own headphones
and get offered your friend’s ones, kindly decline. It’s worth it. |
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Earrings.
You love wearing your friend’s earrings for a night out? Doing that
cannot only transmit all sorts of bacteria but also blood-borne
infections. If you really have to wear them, make sure to sanitize them. |
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Toothbrush.
Not even thoroughly rinsing your toothbrush will make bacteria disappear
– instead, their number will grow overnight. While your own mouth is
used to its bacteria, your partner’s bacteria might make you sick. |
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Toothpaste.
Not as bad as sharing your toothbrush but it can still transmit
bacteria. |
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Lip balm.
From the membranes of your mouth bacteria can get transferred into your
bloodstream. In particular the Herpes Simplex virus, causing cold sores,
gets transmitted this way.
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Cream in a jar.
The threat here is not bacteria from someone else’s face but more so
from their fingertips that get dipped into the cream every time it is
being used.
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Tweezers.
Whether borrowing someone’s tweezers is a health risk really depends on
how they use their tweezers. If they only pluck eyebrow hairs with it,
then that’s not much of a big deal. If they, however, use their tweezers
to dig around in skin, you might just contract the next best blood-borne
disease.
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Nail clippers.
Since warts and fungi tend to hide under finger- and toenails, just
don’t borrow anyone’s nail clippers. |
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Towels.
First, pay attention to allowing your towel to dry in between uses.
Second, don’t be tempted to share it with your partner or family since
you can contract fungi, viruses and even pink eye. |
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Soap.
What holds true about the towel can also be said about sharing soap.
Sharing it could make you get fungi, bacteria or, for example, the
dangerous norovirus (stomach flu). |
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