What things can't be shared at home?
Class I: toothbrush, razor, nail clipper
This kind of small items have a common feature after use, is easy to break skin or bleeding, and once the body fluid exchange, it may suffer from infection.
1. Toothbrush
If your family has infectious diseases, such as hepatitis B, AIDS, etc., and gingival bleeding occurs in the process of brushing teeth, share the toothbrush, this kind of disease will spread infection through body fluid and harm your health.
2. Razor
The transmission of hepatitis B virus, hepatitis C virus and even HIV through sharing razors is a potential danger. Shaving can often cause skin abrasions or small cracks. If one of the razor sharing people is infected with the virus, it may cause cross infection through the non sterilized blade. The shaver should be used alone, and it is necessary to clean the shaver in time after each use. Wash the inside of the blade head and stubble storage tank with hot water for about 30 seconds. If it can be removed, it is better to remove it for cleaning, and then dry it and put it away.
3. Nail clippers
When manicure, if break skin carelessly, share fingernail knife may infect the germs that pass through blood to infect, for example, hepatitis C virus, Staphylococcus aureus, etc. Manicure tools should be used separately, and it is better not to use a pair of nail clippers to prevent foot inflammation from infecting hands. After use, clean it with disinfectant alcohol.
The second category: toothpaste, comb, earphone, towel washbasin
Although this kind of thing is not easy to cause bleeding, but also can cause cross infection.
1. Toothpaste
Toothpaste should not be shared. Sharing toothpaste may cause cross infection of oral diseases. Especially if one person in the family has a cold or oral disease, viruses and bacteria will be transmitted to other people's toothbrushes during the friction process between toothpaste and toothbrush. Moreover, each person's oral condition is different, it is better to use toothpaste for "disease". People with periodontal disease can choose some Chinese herbal toothpaste or anti-inflammatory toothpaste; people with dental caries can choose some fluoride toothpaste to avoid the disease; those with smoke stains can choose whitening toothpaste; and so on. Changing the types of toothpaste often is beneficial to the health of teeth.
2. Towel Basin
Some families are used to washing hands and faces with a basin of water, and then sharing a towel to wipe. In fact, when the first person washes his face or hands, the dirty things have been left in the water. If one person in the family suffers from infectious diseases, the bacteria may also be transmitted to other people through water or towel. For the sake of safety, wash hands and face with flowing water as far as possible. Towel washbasin must be used alone, and the towel should be taken out for drying, and regular high-temperature cooking and disinfection.
3. Comb
Family members share a comb to comb their hair, which is also very unhygienic. The whole family is very healthy, maybe sharing the comb will not cause an accident, but if someone in the family suffers from tinea capitis and the used comb is used by the healthy person, it may transmit the tinea capitis to the healthy person. So don't share combs. Moreover, it should be cleaned regularly. If the plastic comb is used, use the waste toothbrush to dip some toothpaste to brush it. The wooden comb or the angle comb can be cleaned with wool. Both hands hold the wool and move up and down in the comb teeth. After cleaning, it can be done.
4. In ear earphone
In ear headphones are like a bus, and earwax is the passengers. Without the ear, it will be constantly contaminated with other external bacteria. As soon as you plug them back in, they're in your ears. And it happens that earwax has a protective effect on harmful bacteria outside and helps them reproduce. Sharing headphones with others means bringing other people's bacteria into their ears, or introducing new bacterial species, which may cause ear infections or even more serious systemic diseases.
So not only do you not want to share your earplug with others, but also disinfect it regularly, at least once a week. First of all, wipe off the dirt and residual earwax, and then wipe the earphone with cotton or cotton swab dipped in disinfectant alcohol, but be careful not to damage the internal wiring of the headset.
