Are the towels in the hotel clean?

For travelers and business parties, express hotels have become a habitat for going out. Neat beds and clean bathrooms all make people feel at home. However, this is only a superficial phenomenon. The seemingly white sheets and towels in hotels often nourish countless bacteria and chemical residues, and the degree of pollution is often beyond your imagination.

For hotel guests, towels and bath towels are used to wipe their faces and bodies, but for hotel cleaning service personnel, they may be rags to wipe toilets and floors. Based on the principle of saving energy and being close to home, hotel room service personnel often wipe the bathroom floor and toilet directly with towels. Of course, if the towel is too small, change it to a bigger one. There's always one for you.

I believe everyone has seen such news before. Some hotel employees may use towels to clean toilets and cups. Sometimes, in order to reduce the cost, some staff members may not be able to completely guarantee that they can change the sheets alone if they are not particularly dirty.

In fact, these are hidden dangers, which may cause the cross-spread of bacteria and viruses.

The beds in some hotels are very thin. Even if the sheets are changed, the bedding under the bed may contain secretions containing viruses, bacteria or fungi, and bacteria or viruses may spread through the sheets.

In 20 12, an investigation report on the safety status of public textiles in urban express hotels said that 60% of the sheets, bath towels and towels in express hotels were not up to standard. And these unqualified linen supplies are likely to make guests sick.

What is even more surprising is a report on 20 12 that Mr. Li's family of six traveled to Shanghai. After returning home, the whole family suffered from the sexually transmitted disease "condyloma acuminatum", and all six people survived, including his 3-year-old son. The doctor said it probably had something to do with the hotel wiping private parts with a towel. Later, some experts demonstrated that the probability of hotel towels infecting diseases is lower than the probability of winning 5 million lottery tickets.

Generally speaking, the risk and efficiency of the spread of these diseases are still not high, but we should pay attention to several points.

1. Direct contact with sheets or sleeping naked.

Some people feel uncomfortable wearing pants, like to sleep naked or on their stomach, and there will be a lot of gonorrhea. The probability of getting sick like this is indeed there.

2. Use hotel bath towels and towels.

If you take a bath without a towel on business trip, use a hotel towel or bath towel, because the towel or bath towel itself is not clean, which may lead to the spread of diseases.

For example, if someone wipes his feet with a towel, he gets beriberi (beriberi is a common fungal infection) (if the disinfection of hotel supplies is not up to standard), if the next person wipes his lower body with this towel containing fungi, or wipes other parts of his body, it may cause tinea cruris or tinea corporis, causing fungal infections in other parts.

Although some common skin diseases and even some sexually transmitted diseases can be spread through these forms, although the risk and efficiency of the spread of these diseases are really not high as a whole, we should pay attention to them.

In particular, some hotels that just broke the news are involved in pornography, prostitutes are on call, hotels may have commercial sex, and some secretions may come into contact with sheets, bedding or towels. The probability of this group of people suffering from sexually transmitted diseases is still very high. If the cleaning is unqualified, the risk of infection is not ruled out.

Three suggestions for staying in the hotel:

Try to bring your own towels when you go out, especially towels for bathing.

Try not to sleep naked or on your stomach while sleeping. It is best to wear underwear and pajamas, separated from sheets and bedding, so that the effect may be better and the risk of infection will be lower.

Do not wear official non-disposable slippers.