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Purses---Where Has Yours Been???
Have you ever noticed gals who sit their purses on public
restroom
floors - that go directly to their dining tables? Happens a lot!
It's not
always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes
"what
you don't know 'will' hurt you"! Read on...Mom got so upset when a
guest
came in the door and plopped their purses down on the counter where
she was
cooking or setting up the buffet. She always said that purses are
really
dirty, because of Where they have been. Smart Momma!!!
It's something just about every woman carries with them.
While we
may know what's inside our purses, do you have any idea what's on
the
outside?
Shauna Lake put purses to the test - for bacteria - with
surprising results. You may think twice about where you put your
purse.
Women carry purses everywhere; from the office to public restrooms
to the
floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their purses,
but did
you ever stop to think about where your purse goes during the day?
"I drive a school bus, so my purse has been on the floor of
the
bus a lot," says one woman. "On the floor of my car, probably in
restrooms." "I put my purse in grocery shopping carts, on the floor
of
bathroom stalls while changing a diaper," says another woman and of
course
in my home which should be clean."
We decided to find out if purses harbor a lot of bacteria.
We
learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, then
we set
out to test the average woman's purse.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was
on the
bottom of their purse. Most said they usually set their purses on
top of
kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared. Most of the
ladies we
talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their purses were at
least
a little bit dirty.
It turns out purses are so surprisingly dirty, even the
microbiologist who tested them was shocked. Microbiologist Amy
Karren of
Nelson Labs says nearly all of the purses tested were not only high
in
bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria.
Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous
can
cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on
the
purses could make people very sick. In one sampling, four of five
purses
tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it.
"There is
fecal contamination on the purses," says Amy.
Leather or vinyl purses tended to be cleaner than cloth
purses,
and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have
dirtier purses than those without, with one exception. The purse of
one
single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst
contaminations
of all. "Some type of feces, or even possibly vomit or something
like
that," says Amy.
So the moral of this story - your purse won't kill you, but
it
does has the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on
places where
you eat. Use hooks to hang your purse at home and in restrooms, and
don't
put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen
countertop.
Experts say you should think of your purse the same way you
would
a pair of shoes. "If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto
your
countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your
purse on
the countertops" - your purse has gone where every individual before
you
has spat, coughed, urinated, emptied bowels, etc! Do you really want
to
bring that home with you?
The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a purse
will
help. Wash cloth purses and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom
of
leather purses.
THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!!
Have you ever noticed gals who sit their purses on public
restroom
floors - that go directly to their dining tables? Happens a lot!
It's not
always the 'restaurant food' that causes stomach distress. Sometimes
"what
you don't know 'will' hurt you"! Read on...Mom got so upset when a
guest
came in the door and plopped their purses down on the counter where
she was
cooking or setting up the buffet. She always said that purses are
really
dirty, because of Where they have been. Smart Momma!!!
It's something just about every woman carries with them.
While we
may know what's inside our purses, do you have any idea what's on
the
outside?
Shauna Lake put purses to the test - for bacteria - with
surprising results. You may think twice about where you put your
purse.
Women carry purses everywhere; from the office to public restrooms
to the
floor of the car. Most women won't be caught without their purses,
but did
you ever stop to think about where your purse goes during the day?
"I drive a school bus, so my purse has been on the floor of
the
bus a lot," says one woman. "On the floor of my car, probably in
restrooms." "I put my purse in grocery shopping carts, on the floor
of
bathroom stalls while changing a diaper," says another woman and of
course
in my home which should be clean."
We decided to find out if purses harbor a lot of bacteria.
We
learned how to test them at Nelson Laboratories in Salt Lake, then
we set
out to test the average woman's purse.
Most women told us they didn't stop to think about what was
on the
bottom of their purse. Most said they usually set their purses on
top of
kitchen tables and counters where food is prepared. Most of the
ladies we
talked to told us they wouldn't be surprised if their purses were at
least
a little bit dirty.
It turns out purses are so surprisingly dirty, even the
microbiologist who tested them was shocked. Microbiologist Amy
Karren of
Nelson Labs says nearly all of the purses tested were not only high
in
bacteria, but high in harmful kinds of bacteria.
Pseudomonas can cause eye infections, staphylococcus aurous
can
cause serious skin infections, and salmonella and e-coli found on
the
purses could make people very sick. In one sampling, four of five
purses
tested positive for salmonella, and that's not the worst of it.
"There is
fecal contamination on the purses," says Amy.
Leather or vinyl purses tended to be cleaner than cloth
purses,
and lifestyle seemed to play a role. People with kids tended to have
dirtier purses than those without, with one exception. The purse of
one
single woman who frequented nightclubs had one of the worst
contaminations
of all. "Some type of feces, or even possibly vomit or something
like
that," says Amy.
So the moral of this story - your purse won't kill you, but
it
does has the potential to make you very sick if you keep it on
places where
you eat. Use hooks to hang your purse at home and in restrooms, and
don't
put it on your desk, a restaurant table, or on your kitchen
countertop.
Experts say you should think of your purse the same way you
would
a pair of shoes. "If you think about putting a pair of shoes onto
your
countertops, that's the same thing you're doing when you put your
purse on
the countertops" - your purse has gone where every individual before
you
has spat, coughed, urinated, emptied bowels, etc! Do you really want
to
bring that home with you?
The microbiologists at Nelson also said cleaning a purse
will
help. Wash cloth purses and use leather cleaner to clean the bottom
of
leather purses.
THIS IS WORTH SHARING!!!