What are "five diseases that may be caused by bathing"?

byKim Rossi

Many people feel that the time to take fatigue slowly by the bathtub at the end of the day is the time of bliss in life. Although rare, there are diseases caused by bathing, "the possibility that the body will be damaged by bathing" is a science mediaLive ScienceIt is listed in.

5 Weird Ways Hot Tubs Can Make You Sick
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◆ pulmonary MAC disease (hot spring lung)
Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC fungus) that may propagate in bathtubs and hot springs is not a pathogen causing tuberculosis and the like,Lung MAC diseaseIt may cause lung disease. MAC fungus will not be washed off with water, because it is attached to the surface of water and exists on the surface of splashes and air bubbles generated in hot springs, etc., it will invade into the lungs when breathing in a bath or the like There is that. Inflammation may occur in the lung infected with MAC fungus, and people who have had pulmonary MAC disease may have symptoms such as coughing, dyspnea, fever.

◆ Warm bath hair follicle inflammation (hot bath hair follicle inflammation)
If you feel itching on the skin after using a hot spring or a bath, maybe,Warm bath follicular flameYou may have become.PseudomonasBreeding in a bathtub with insufficient chlorine treatment, because Pseudomonas aeruginosa is in contact with underlying skin wearing a bathing suite for a long period of time, red eczema or pus (accumulation) accumulated blisters We will raise it. Warm Bath To prevent hair follicle inflammation, it is important to keep hot springs and baths clean, disinfect chlorine etc. and wash the body firmly after leaving the bathtub.

◆ Legionnaires' disease
LegionellosisLives in freshwaterLegionellaSymptoms such as cough, hyperthermia, muscle aches such as pneumonia are a disease that infects by sucking steam or fog containing Legionella bacteria generated from a contaminated bathtub. Hospitalization is often necessary when Legionnaires' disease develops, and disinfection of the bathtub is indispensable to prevent infection.

byJoe Shlabotnik

Urinary tract infection
Although it is a very rare case, by soaking in a hot spring or a bathUrinary-tract infectionIt may cause onset.Urinary tractIs the passage of urine from the urethra to the kidneys and is caused by invasion of a pathogen mainly Pseudomonas aeruginosa into the urinary tract from the urethra. Researchers say that infection risk increases as urinary tract infections usually take a bath and infection is rare, pressing the urethra into the jet hole of the jet bath or having sex inside the bathtub I will.

◆ Allergies
Cleaning of the bathtub is necessary to prevent the various diseases mentioned above, but there are people who cause allergic reactions due to the chemical substances used to disinfect the bathtub. Used in the process of oxidizing and removing organic pollutants in a bathtub,Potassium peroxymonosulfatePeople who are allergic to the chemical substance (PPMS) can produce extensive eczema when taking a bath. Ohio dermatologist identified 6 patients with allergic reactions to PPMS in 2010 and identified that having been soaked in a bath cleaned with PPMS was the cause of an allergic reaction.

byedcleve