I used a towel in the hotel, and after taking a hot bath, I felt itchy and got a lot of rashes. What happened?

In most hotels, the towels used by guests will be sent to professional washing companies for washing, cleaning and disinfection. This is because the general hotel has a large passenger flow and guests use towels frequently. If the hotel is required to clean and disinfect these towels by itself, it will be a great project for the hotel staff. Sending towels to the washing company is the best choice for the hotel.

However, some washing companies have some hygiene problems. When choosing a washing company, the hotel must know the specific information of the company. Don't be silly, you haven't cleaned the towel after spending money. If there is a problem with this towel after it is used by the guests, the hotel is all wet.

Another netizen on the Internet broke the news that many washing companies directly soak towels with bleach, and there is no formal cleaning and disinfection process at all. However, bleaching agents are mostly chlorine-containing derivatives, which have strong oxidation. Long-term use will have an impact on human respiratory tract, eyes and nasal mucosa. Towels are articles that are in close contact with these injury-causing parts at the meeting. This washable towel will seriously endanger the health of guests.

And what is the regular cleaning process of hotel towel supplies?

First of all, in order to ensure the health of the guests, boil the towel with boiling water for about 10 minutes, which can inhibit the harmful bacteria in the towel.

Then, we wash the towel thoroughly with alkaline detergent, and then wash the detergent with clean water.

Finally, fold the towel into small pieces and heat it in the microwave oven for about 5 minutes. So that bacteria can be basically killed.

The towels treated in the previous step are safer and healthier. You can also sterilize your towels at home.

However, Lao Yi, general manager of a high-star hotel in Xiamen, broke the news that when he goes out to stay in a hotel, he will definitely bring a full set of towels, bath towels and even sheets, because he thinks: "Hotel linen (hotel terminology, towels, tablecloths, sheets, pillowcases, etc.). ) washing is too unreliable! "

Wash toilet urine stains with bath towels, and even wipe toilet cups and guest room teacups with used bath towels or towels. When doing these cleaning, waiters often pay special attention to the guests in the surrounding rooms to avoid being found. As a supervisor, the head waiter of housekeeping department turned a blind eye to "negligence".

Mr. Li from Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province took a family of six to travel to Shanghai. After returning home, the sensitive parts of the whole family have different degrees of itching, and the reproductive organs are densely covered with small particles. According to the doctor's diagnosis, Mr. Li's family has a sexually transmitted disease called condyloma acuminatum. No one lives, including his three-year-old son.

Qian, director of the dermatology department of a hospital in Zhangzhou, said that Mr. Li's family suffered from sexually transmitted diseases at the same time, which was probably infected when using the hotel's bathtub and sheets. The incubation period of condyloma acuminatum is 3 weeks to 8 months. Superior suites often have "special services", and the bed sheets are contaminated with the body fluids of patients with "condyloma acuminatum". It is difficult to completely remove general washing and disinfection chemicals.

"Some hotels are unwilling to pay for the update rate of daily necessities such as rags." According to industry analysis, the sanitary condition of some hotel rooms is worrying, which is not only related to the lax management of managers, but also directly related to the consumption of human and material resources in hotels. "Some hotels will consider cleaning as many rooms as possible with the least manpower and the least rag to achieve' energy saving and consumption reduction'."

It is recommended that you bring your own towel when you travel, do not wipe your lower body with the hotel towel, try not to use the hotel sitting toilet when you go to the toilet, and do not use the bathtub comfortably when you take a bath in the hotel.

Some express hotels will send used towels, bath towels, sheets and so on in order to save money. Go to a special washing center, the cheaper the better. The whole washing process is unsupervised, which is also a common money-saving strategy for express hotels. President Gao of Nanjing Washing and Dyeing Industry Association reminded that people who often go out had better bring their own towels, pillow towels and even sheets. Because in addition to the PH value exceeding the standard, the total number of colonies exceeding the standard is also the main reason why many express hotels are unsanitary. The reason is that in order to reduce the cost of washing, enterprises do not carry out high-temperature washing sterilization as required, which may easily lead to cross-infection of diseases.

All hotels that disinfect towels one by one should not spread condyloma acuminatum on towels and sheets. Because the towel sterilizer on the market at present, the heat preservation range is about 55~65℃, and the height can be adjusted to 100℃. If, like hospitals, the surgical gowns, hand washing gowns and hospital gowns used by * * * are disinfected at high temperature and high pressure, it is even more impossible to spread-the virus has protein premature degeneration.

A patient once said that he had condyloma acuminatum because he wore a hospital gown worn by others during his hospitalization. This is typical cheating. I didn't clean my mouth. I'm afraid my wife will be angry, so I have to blame the hospital. He doesn't know that autoclaved hospital gowns will never spread sexually transmitted diseases.

In fact, as a dermatologist, I'm tired of hearing the words "I didn't mess around, but I got sexually transmitted diseases because the towels were dirty/the sheets were not completely exposed/the bath water was too hot …". The reason why sexually transmitted diseases are called sexually transmitted diseases is not to say that they can't be spread through other ways than sex, but that there are really few other ways.

The most common, or unclean, sex.

Therefore, it is extremely unlikely that towels in regular disinfection hotels will be infected with sexually transmitted diseases. However, if you insist on staying in a small hotel that looks dirty, I don't know if there are sterilized towels, there is nothing I can do.