Are hotel sheets contagious?

Hotel sheets, towels and bath towels should be strictly disinfected, but some employees or unscrupulous businessmen have reduced the formal cleaning and disinfection steps in order to reduce costs, so we can't know and can't guarantee the actual effect.

These skin diseases can be spread through bed sheets.

Infectious dermatoses include bacterial dermatoses, such as pustulosis and erysipelas; Viral skin diseases, such as chicken pox; Fungal dermatoses, such as tinea of hands and feet.

1. Viral dermatoses: such as verruca vulgaris, verruca plana, condyloma acuminatum, chickenpox, rubella, measles, molluscum contagiosum, hand-foot-mouth disease and foot-and-mouth disease can be transmitted through direct contact or respiratory tract.

2. Bacterial dermatoses: Some bacterial dermatoses are also contagious, such as gum ulcers, leprosy and skin tuberculosis, which can be spread through contact.

3. Fungal dermatosis: Almost all superficial mycoses caused by various tinea infections can be spread through contact. For example, tinea capitis can be spread through hairdressing appliances, and tinea manus and pedis can be spread through shoes and socks. In addition, there are onychomycosis, tinea corporis, sweat spots and candida infections.

4. Scabies caused by scabies mites and various lice diseases caused by lice are highly contagious.