Is Removing the End More Hygienic?

[Article déjà publié le 22 février 2024]

Shoes = Infections?

Shoes can potentially carry under the soles of bacteria that it is better not to have at home, like the E.coli bacteria that we find in particular in the stools of dogs, which can be pathogen for humans. However, the majority of strains being part of this bacteria are harmless.

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The microbes penetrate into the body through the mouth, nose or eyes. So many organs that are never directly put in contact with the microbes on the ground, and that shoes can transport. Thus, the probability of catching an infection via your own shoes or those of your guests remains very low.

So why continue to take off?

Taking up inside can be a preventive gesture, especially if you or your friends have young children, who are therefore closer to the ground and more willing to be infected. Culturally, taking off a hygienic scope too. In Japan, it was customary at the time to eat on the ground. This is why today, take off your shoes as soon as the entry is in order.

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The architecture of houses also invites us to delight. Upon the entrance are often placed small shelves to be able to store your shoes.

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Taking up is more a practical gesture than hygienic ultimately, so as not to have to clean the floor or avoid ironing again the mop.

Drink can also be an unconscious psychological act, as the researcher advances to the CNRS Fabrice Larceneux in a chapter of the book Real estate marketingco -written with Hervé Parent, “housing […] is the place of self -projections and the body where its relationship to oneself and its relationship to the world are defined ”. So take off your shoes at home can also create a border with the outside, your problems, your work …

Whether we take offense out of politeness, to create a border between home and the outside, because it is cultural or for a question of hygiene … All the reasons are good for protecting good socks or very hot slippers!

Sources: RTL, Slate