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    Taking showers 'can make you ill'
    Showering may be bad for your health, say US scientists, who have shown that dirty shower heads can deliver a face full of harmful bacteria.

    Tests revealed nearly a third of devices harbour significant levels of a bug that causes lung disease.

    Levels of Mycobacterium avium were 100 times higher than those found in typical household water supplies.

    M. avium forms a biofilm that clings to the inside of the shower head, reports the National Academy of Science.
    Hot tubs and spa pools carry a similar infection risk, according to the Health Protection Agency.
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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    Oh and I did so love a face full of freezing water before it's had a chance to warm up yet.. hang on, no I didn't.

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    This is why I never wash.....

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    "Further work will need to look at whether finding these organisms is associated with any increased risk of infection."

    Who funds these daft projects? How about a survey to determine the actual % of people that take a shower in such a way?

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    Ah it says taking, not talking, silly me.
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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    Is it a kind of golden coloured bacteria?
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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    Quote Originally Posted by darkghost View Post
    "Further work will need to look at whether finding these organisms is associated with any increased risk of infection."

    Who funds these daft projects? How about a survey to determine the actual % of people that take a shower in such a way?
    Quite! Who actually stands under the shower, face uplifted, and then turns it on to receive a face-full of cold water? Whoever it is probably deserves a face-full of untreated sewage.

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    There is a danger on Legionnaires' Disease in shower heads etc.
    On my Fire Station we have to run each shower on its hottest setting for 7 mins once a week!!! and complete the log book which is requirements of both the Health and Safety at Work etc Act 1974 and the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health 1999. Also compliance with relevant parts of the Management of Health and Safety at Work Regulations 1999.

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    French vindicated by manky shower study

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    I also misread as talking shower.

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    Quote Originally Posted by pollaxe View Post
    This is why I never wash.....
    Crafty .... getting all the virii and bacteria to pack their bags and move out.

    Somehow, the cartoon mental image of a bacteria heading for the door, clothes peg on nose and suitcase in hand, makes me smirk. I think I must have entered my second childhood ... though some would say I'm still finishing the first one.

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    So, lets say its legit, whats the solution?

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    Quote Originally Posted by Marcos View Post
    So, lets say its legit, whats the solution?
    A mild solution of water and mycobacterium avium, by the sound of it.


    Sorry, couldn't help it.

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    Re: OMG! like, taking showers 'can make you ill'

    Just clean your shower once in a while and it should be fine...

    Have to do it here anyway because the hard water clogs the nozzles every month!

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