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. mailto:[log in to unmask]