Studies have shown that the coronavirus can survive for several days on certain surfaces.
That's why doctors encourage people to take off their shoes before going home.
If you step on contaminated sputum on the street, the virus can survive on your soles and settle on floors at home.
Although the risk is much lower than with human contact...
...it is important to take off your shoes every time you come home . Explanations:
Not only can you bring the coronavirus home, but it's far from the only thing!
In this study, researchers from the University of Houston (Texas, USA) discovered that more than 40% of our shoes are also carriers of the very disgusting "Clostridium difficile" bacteria.
Like the Covid-19 virus, this bacterium can survive for a very long time on a surface.
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 proliferates easily 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.
Obviously, there is a fair amount of dust, traces of bird and dog droppings...
But also pieces of leaves and a whole bunch of not very appetizing things.
In fact, the remains of dead leaves act as a bacteria magnet .
They all nest there and are just waiting 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 were more than 421,000 different bacteria under our shoes!
Tiny organisms that can be classified into 9 different families.
And they cause different kinds of infections :eyes, lungs or stomach.
Two of them are worth mentioning so that you finally decide to put on your slippers directly when you get home...
The first is called "E.coli" and constitutes almost a third of all the bacteria around us, in short:a hell of a heavyweight!
E.coli strains are mostly harmless, thankfully!
But some can be really harmful, such as "E.coli 0157:H7".
They can indeed cause enormous stomach aches and serious intestinal disorders, often resulting in vomiting and diarrhea.
The other type of bacteria identified by American researchers is "Klebsiella pneumonia".
It is known to cause severe lung damage and can lead to pneumonia.
The mortality rate due to this bacterium is also terrible:50% or even 100% if people suffer from alcoholism.
There are so many benefits to taking off your shoes when you get home, to walk in socks, barefoot or put on slippers.
Already, you will need to mop your floor less often.
In addition to saving time and energy, you'll 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!
Thus, your home will be cleaner and above all healthier.
If you have a baby, he will be happy to play on the floor without you having to worry about it.
In addition, the other great 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 invite themselves at home!
The Chinese have been doing it for 5,000 years, that is to say...!
Finally, if you live in an apartment, your downstairs neighbors will start smiling again when they no longer hear the sound of your footsteps slamming on the floor, night and day.
