THE RIGHT FREQUENCY TO WASH YOUR TOWELS Guidelines and Tips

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By Émil Flemmon Associate Editor

According to an article from the Huffington Post, the question about how often we should wash our bathing towels came into play and was quite interesting.

Roman Kemp, a British radio host and TV personality asked a question from his 318.5K followers on Twitter – Is it best to wash our towels after every use, or should we wait a week or two?

Do we really know what “clean” means for towel usage or is there a system we use?

After a few responses, some people detailed that after about three uses they wash their towels. Others declared odor detection as an indicator to wash them. Check out some of mixed tweets regarding cleanliness:

Okay, now that we’ve got that out the way, here’s some things to consider for better hygiene.

So, How Often Do We Need to Wash Our Towels After Consistent Usage?

University of Arizona microbiologist Charles Gerba told Time magazine that a study he performed determined bathroom towels contained coliform bacteria up to 90 percent. The bacteria are organisms filled with disease-causing bugs found in water of which E. coli makes up for nearly 14 percent. Dr. Lisa Ackerley, aka The Hygiene Doctor, suggests that for some people who clean “well,” may be able to get away with several uses as opposed to others. “If someone is very good at cleaning themselves and leaves the towel looking clean, they could probably get away with several uses,” she said. “But if they are not very good and the towel looks dirty afterwards, they might want to wash it after every use.”

Overall, washing towels can be contingent from person to person based on frequency. What you may not know is that after using your towel(s), dry them by airing them, according to Professor Val Curtis of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Curtis also recommended to properly washing bath towels “once a week.”

Taking Into Consideration Washer Temperature

The NHS recommends that when washing towels should be at a temperature of 60°C. However, if you’re using bleach-based laundry products, 40°C is vital towards germ prevention and growth. Ackerley states the hotter you wash your cloths, the better off you’ll be in the fight against germs.

Towels should be washed at above 60°C to ensure that bacteria and fungi are killed,

she says. “I actually go for 90°C as some machines are not always accurate about their temperature achievement.” If you wash at 30°C, you won’t kill the bacteria and fungi, she warns.

If you’re more of an environmentalist-type interested in reducing plastic pollution, energy consumption and even lowering your water bill, Friends and Earth

But here’s a curveball we’ve mentioned before: if the environment is your top priority, Julian Kirby, plastics campaigner at Friends of the Earth, urges you to keep washing at a low temperature – it’ll reduce plastic pollution, save energy consumption, and lower your bills. Guess this one’s up to you.

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What The Future Holds For Innovative Cancer Treatments And Care

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For many patients, initial cancer treatments are not enough, and residual cancer cells that survive these treatments can cause relapse. But new research is seeking to harness the immune system to target residual disease, thereby helping patients avoid relapses and live longer.

Using a novel mechanism of action that directly targets the cancerous cells, we are hoping to enhance the ability of NK cells – that is natural killer cells – to eliminate residual disease, says RJ Tesi, MD, CEO of INmune Bio Inc., (NASDAQ: INMB), a clinical stage immunooncology company. “NK cells are part of our innate immune system and are essential for survival. In addition to directly killing infected cells and cancer cells, NK cells facilitate crosstalk between the innate and adaptive immune system.”

As Dr. Tesi goes on to explain, NK cells play a critical role in killing cancer cells that remain after such treatments as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. While modern cancer therapies can effectively eliminate most cancer in a patient, to eliminate all cancer cells, the patient’s immune system needs to do its part and kill the residual disease. When cancer cells evade NK cells by making themselves effectively invisible, the immune system can’t identify them and therefore can’t kill them. This failure of the immune system to eliminate residual disease is the cause of cancer relapse.

INKmune, INmune Bio Inc.’s lead product, activates resting NK cells into a primed state to kill cancer. Currently in clinical trials, this therapy is already showing promising results. INKmune-primed NK cells have demonstrated an ability to kill several types of cancer cells. To learn more, visit inmunebio.com.

“Chemotherapy and radiotherapy reduce the tumor burden, but are not always curative alone,” says Dr. Tesi. “To eradicate the disease and turn cancer relapsers into survivors, we also need an effective immune response to control residual cancer cells left behind after primary treatment.”

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