Coronavirus: Should You Take Off Your Shoes Before Going Home?

Studies have shown that the coronavirus can survive for several days on certain surfaces.

This is why doctors encourage people to take off their shoes before going home.

If you walk on contaminated sputum on the street, the virus can survive on your sole and settle on the floors at home.

Even if the risk is much lower than with human contact ...

...it's important to take off your shoes every time you get home. Explanations:

Coronavirus: Should You Take Off Your Shoes Before Going Home?

What bacteria do you bring home?

Not only can you bring the coronavirus home, it's far from the only thing!

In this study, researchers at the University of Houston (Texas, USA) discovered that more than 40% of our shoes are also carriers of the very disgusting bacteria "Clostridium difficile".

Like the Covid-19 virus, this bacteria can survive on a surface for a very long time.

This organism, although tiny, is harmful to health and can cause serious infections.

In addition, this bacterium is resistant to the vast majority of existing antibiotics. Recovery from the infection it causes is often long and painful.

It easily proliferates in the body and attacks the walls of the intestine causing diarrhea.

Also, make sure you don't invite this bacteria into your home.

To do this, always take off your shoes when entering the house and put on a good pair of slippers.

What else do we find under our soles?

Lots of pairs of shoes on the doorstep to avoid putting viruses inside the house

Obviously there is a fair amount of dust, traces of bird and dog droppings, but also pieces of leaves and a whole bunch of things that are not very tasty.

In fact, the leftover leaves act like a bacteria magnet: they all nest there and just wait for your shoe to take them away!

For Dr. Reynolds, a microbiologist at the University of Arizona, this means that a multitude of "bacteria can survive for days or even weeks under the soles of shoes."

Hold on tight: in his study, this researcher showed that there are over 421,000 different bacteria under our shoes!

Tiny organisms that can be classified into 9 different families and that cause different kinds of infections: in the eyes, in the lungs or in the stomach.

Two of them deserve to be mentioned so that you finally decide to put on your slippers directly when you arrive home ...

The first is called "E.coli" and constitutes nearly a third of all the bacteria that surround us, in short: a hell of a heavyweight!

The strains of E.coli are mostly harmless, luckily! But some can be really harmful, such as "E.coli 0157: H7".

They can cause enormous stomach aches and severe bowel problems, often leading to vomiting and diarrhea.

The other type of bacteria identified by American researchers is "Klebsiella pneumonia", known to cause serious damage to the lungs and can lead to pneumonia.

The death rate due to this bacterium is also terrible: 50% or even 100% if people suffer from alcoholism.

How to have a cleaner house?

There are so many advantages to taking off your shoes when you get home, walking in socks, barefoot or putting on slippers.

Already, you will need to wash your floor less often.

In addition to this saving of time and energy, you will even save money on cleaning products.

To remind everyone to take off their shoes when they get home, the ideal is to put a storage made for or, quite simply, a large crate.

Automatically, young and old will remember to take off their dirty boots!

This will make your home cleaner and above all healthier.

If you have a baby, he will be happy to be able to play on the floor without you having to worry about it.

On the other hand, the other big advantage is that by walking without shoes, you stimulate your pressure points located on the soles of the feet.

It's all the benefits of reflexology that come home! The Chinese have been doing it for 5,000 years, that's to say ...!

Finally, if you live in an apartment, your neighbors downstairs will smile again when they no longer hear the sound of your footsteps slamming on the floor, night and day.

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Also to discover:

Coronavirus: 15 Tips For Safe Shopping.

Coronavirus: 6 Tips to Clean & Disinfect More Often at Home.


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