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#1 User is offline   Still Waters 


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Posted 15 September 2009 - 01:45 PM

news.bbc.co.uk said:

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.

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 01:51 PM

Maybe it can, but not taking one will make you stink

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Posted 15 September 2009 - 04:26 PM

great. another thing I can be paranoid about :unsure2:

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Posted 17 September 2009 - 11:45 PM

First baths, now showers. How do they want us to get clean?
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Posted 17 September 2009 - 11:48 PM

View Postpiperjay, on 18 September 2009 - 02:45 AM, said:

First baths, now showers. How do they want us to get clean?


They don't... they rather have you catch something nasty so they can sell more medicine.

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Posted 18 September 2009 - 10:14 PM

I would worry more about the bacteria obtained from NOT showering rathering than bacteria on the shower head.

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Posted 18 September 2009 - 10:17 PM

First socialized medicine and now no showers......every day america creeps closer to being french! :lol:
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Posted 18 September 2009 - 10:24 PM

Great! This means the STINKY guy I work with is smarter than I am. this day just keeps getting better and better! <_<

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Posted 19 September 2009 - 04:16 AM

Then I suppose I should be glad that I only take baths.

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Posted 19 September 2009 - 04:58 AM

this can kill you.. that can kill you..

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Posted 19 September 2009 - 06:51 AM

Guess my O.C.D. causing me to take more showers on average is going to kill me.
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Posted 19 September 2009 - 02:28 PM

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Maybe it can, but not taking one will make you stink


Exactly! And the article refers to a dirty shower,,,so you better take care of the water!

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Posted 19 September 2009 - 05:04 PM

Hmm...i had a very reputed teacher explaining this for me and he said that when the water flows through the shower pipe it deposits so many layers of bacteria and when again water is forced out of it it will fall on our heads causing germ infection....But still I wash myself in shower :innocent:
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Posted 20 September 2009 - 03:23 PM

And the world will get stinkier and stinkier lol...


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