Personal Hygiene Causes Superbugs?

Everyone has memories of being told to brush their teeth the first thing in the morning and the last thing at night. To wash their hands and face when they come back home from playing with their friends. These things were considered basic personal hygiene practices and have been implemented generation after generation by parents who wanted their kids to have good health.

Here’s the kicker. It’s these practices that have led to the rise of superbugs! A study conducted at the University of Queensland in Australia has focused on the chemical triclosan which is commonly found in over two thousand personal care products such as toothpaste and hand wash.

Jianhua Guo led the study that seems to prove tat overuse and misuse of antibiotics in personal care products is the reason that superbugs are being created. He added that the presence of triclosan in personal care products is actually accelerating the spread of antibiotic resistant superbugs.

This is a wake up call because more people are getting infected by these superbugs than ever before. In the last year nearly seven hundred thousand  people were fatally infected by these drug resistant bugs and died. There’s a topic for further scientific research if ever there was one.