5 Bacteria-Infested Areas of Your Home You Might Not Know About

Germs and bacteria that cause illness lurk everywhere in your home. Sure, you know about bacteria hot spots like cutting boards, toilet handles, and doorknobs, but there are some surprising bacteria-infested areas of your home that you might not know about. Your entrance is filled with a variety of bacteria, germs, and contaminants. So are the kitchen walls, floors, and upholstered furniture in the family room. Bacteria lurk in every room of your home and if someone in your home has a compromised immune system, or is prone to allergies or asthma attacks, traditional cleaning combined with the use of a robotic cleaner can decrease flare-ups caused by bacteria. by bacteria.

input bacteria

Everyone who enters your home carries some kind of bacteria on the bottom of their shoes. Anything that has entered outside is carried on the soles of shoes and deposited first in the doorway, then in every other room you walk into. Fecal matter from dogs, cats, and birds, contaminated water, saliva from sidewalks, and a host of lawn chemicals and insect debris stick to shoes with every step outdoors and are carried indoors.

kitchen bacteria

Cooking steam covers the kitchen ceiling, walls, cabinets, and floors. The wet cover acts like a magnet and a spider web, attracting and trapping all the dust, germs and bacterial particles that pass through the kitchen. Kitchen counters and dining room tables are also filled with bacteria found in the bottoms of purses, backpacks, shopping bags, and the like.

Upholstered furniture

Bacteria, germs, and contaminants of all kinds fall onto upholstered furniture every time someone sits or throws a jacket on a chair. You, your family, friends, neighbors, and pets deposit a large number of bacteria on upholstered furniture every time you sit down. Anything that settles on comfortable fabric (including rugs and rugs) is waiting for someone to stick to it, too, unless it’s regularly cleaned with a robotic cleaner.

humid bathroom environment

Bathrooms have hot and humid environments and are the main breeding grounds for bacteria, mold and mildew. Shower curtains, bathroom rugs, wet towels on the floor, carpeted bathroom rugs, toothbrushes, and mouthwash bottles all harbor germs and bacteria. Bars of bathroom soap harbor disease-causing bacteria when used by a sick person (fecal matter), and common family towels used to dry hands are often more infested with germs than the toilet handle.

washing machine

When clothing or bedding used by a sick person is washed without bleach, the germs and bacteria that cause illness are not killed. They stick to the inside of the washer and stick to the next load of laundry. That’s one way a contagious disease (like a stomach bug) runs in a family.

Where dirty clothes are stacked, like indoors or in a laundry basket or on the floor, is also another place where germs lurk and grow.