Hygiene is an important “buzzword” for a healthy lifestyle. But, this is causing health problems, in turn, for over-hygienic people. Though it seems a little confusing to fathom out on how can this happen, the reasons are a bit simpler.
Unlike the traditional disinfectants like soap and hot water, alcohol, chlorine bleach or hydrogen peroxide, the antibacterial products flooding the market, eventually leave surface residues, which in turn create conditions that can help trigger resistant bacteria’s development.
Yes, the antibacterial cleaner that you spray to wipe over your toilet leaves active chemicals behind that apparently seems to continue killing bacteria. But, these eventually don’t necessarily kill all the bacteria, leaving the rest resistant to the chemical.
With people traditionally using soap, chlorine bleach or hydrogen peroxide to clean their hands or houses, the substances stayed safe doing their jobs nonspecifically, i.e. wiping out almost every type of microbe, irrespective of a particular variety. Thus, it never leaves a microbe alive to be able to grow resistance.
But disappointingly, those attractively packaged antibacterial cleaners on the market shelves can’t help the consumers from grabbing one for himself or his home.
To wipe out such devastating products successfully from the market or force manufactures to come up with a real hygienic product, we, the consumers need to be a bit wiser in choosing the right product – and not get lured away by them.