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"Helen M. Woodman" <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 18 Jan 1999 02:02:07 EST
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Family members often share each others flannels and towels and think that is
OK.  Not everybody washes their towels or flannels in a boil wash on a weekly
or bi-weekly basis.  Bed linen is another great breeding place shared by two,
three or more bodies!  Just think of those bathrooms you occasionally have
visited where you can smell the festering flannel at forty paces that is
sitting, sodden and scrunched up behind the tap or hiding the squidgy soap at
the handbasin or in a heap on the floor!

I, personally, cannot be convinced that if a member of the family has athletes
foot/tinea/candida or whatever and dries themselves on the towel and then mum
comes along, has a bath/shower and dries her body/breasts with the same towel,
later dries baby after his wash, that they will not cross infect each other.
I would need to see bomb-proof research to prove to me that all these fungal
infections are not inter-related in some way and cannot mutate to suit their
chosen home on/in the body!

Pat Gima, Lisa Amir, Oh Wise Ones, what do you think/know?

Helen Woodman, NCT Bfdg Counsellor, Storrington, West Sussex, UK.
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