Life safety in everyday life, in nature and transport. The most dangerous place in the apartment: kitchen, bedroom or bathroom? Dangers in the bathroom

You serenely hum your favorite song in your soul, and all these objects are just waiting to kill you, injure you or infect you with an infection.

We are kidding, of course, but still be careful with them. Especially when you are bathing a child.

1. Gender

Do you disdain to walk without slippers in the shower of a fitness club? Your own bathroom floor is not much cleaner: Australian scientists estimate that it has an average of 200 times more than the sanitary standard on it.

How to be saved? Wash the floor with disinfectants and place a washable rug on top of it.

2. Spilled water

About 450 people are killed each year by slipping on wet floors. Children and the elderly are at risk.

How to be saved? Choose a shower stall with a door rather than a curtain. Install tiles with uneven surfaces. There are also special rugs that do not slip on the floor.

3. Toothbrush

London professor John Oxford said that the bathroom is a complex place in the plan. Every day, dirt from our own bodies scatters throughout the room and settles on objects that seem clean on the outside.

A study by British scientists says that up to 100 million people can live on a toothbrush. Some of them can be almost deadly: E. coli, fungi, streptococci, etc. Hygiene is especially affected in the combined bathrooms: germs from the toilet scatter within a radius of 180 cm.

How to be saved? Store the brushes in a case or put special caps on them. Alternatively, you can put the glass with brushes on a closed shelf.

4. Shower curtain

Damp and warm all the time - ideal for the growth of bacteria and fungi. the curtain can cause bowel disease and inflammation of the genitourinary system.

How to be saved? Wash (or better change) every three months. After you have taken a shower, unfold the curtain and open the door. This will dry it faster.

5. Shower head

American researchers have found that almost a third of shower heads contain pathogens. The fact is that they always contain warm water, which bacteria are very fond of.

How to be saved? Run a stream of hot water through the shower head before showering.

The bathroom, one of the most important areas in the home, is often a source of danger. A tiled room can undermine health from three sides: here you can get physical injury, chemical poisoning, or even a chronic illness.

But this is not a reason to give up hygiene. Making a room less "harmful" is not that difficult.

Physical threat

Typically, the bathroom floor is covered with with tiles... When water gets in, it turns into a skating rink. By tradition, the bath itself is enameled. This coating looks very impressive, it does not wear off for 30 years and all these years remains extremely slippery (even if it is dry). All this creates the ideal conditions for falling and receiving numerous injuries, fractures and concussions. Especially slippery surfaces are dangerous for:

children under 5 years old... Firstly, babies still have very poor control over balance, and secondly, they have not yet developed an instinct for self-preservation, and, falling, they will not even try to grab onto something;
women after 50-55 years... Age-related and hormonal changes in the female body, characteristic of this period, make bones extremely fragile. After a half-century anniversary, it is easy to get a fracture even with a slight blow, especially often breaks femoral neck- by nature, this is an extremely gentle place. Such an injury is very unpleasant: the bone does not heal for a long time and there is a risk that after recovery, one leg will remain shorter than the other.

What to do?

To make the bathtub and the floor in it more stable, you need special rugs, which can be laid not only on the floor, but also in the bath itself. For this, there are rugs provided suction cups, which rigidly fix their position. Don't like the rug - attach to the bottom of the tub anti-slip applique... You just need to remember that such rugs must be on rubberized base, otherwise various microorganisms will quickly settle in them.

In addition, the surface of the bath itself can be coated acrylic- this will increase its durability and eliminate any slipping.

If you decide to change the floor in the bathroom, do not flatter yourself with the cold beauty of glossy tiles - this is the most "slippery" type of coating. Give preference matte ceramic granite... It is very difficult to lose balance on it, even if it gets wet. This material is considered one of the most environmentally friendly, surpasses natural stone in strength and, unlike some types of finishes, does not become radioactive over time.

Chemical threat

Usually the bathroom is small in size and, as a rule, poorly ventilated... In this regard, the use and storage of chemical cleaning agents in it leads to the fact that the atmosphere of the room quickly fills harmful toxic substances... And they not only provoke poisoning, but can also accumulate in our body, leading to cancer and chronic diseases.

Biological threat

In the bathroom there are ideal conditions for the growth and development of fungi and mold- warmth and humidity. Lack of proper ventilation, old pipes and high humidity lead to the fact that you have unexpected neighbors. There are over 100,000 types of fungi that can exist in the bathroom. More often than others, black aspergilla ( Аsреrgіllus nіger). If your bathroom has a black coating, then you are familiar with this look firsthand.

Fungi are scary not only from an aesthetic point of view. The danger to our health is not the mold itself, but millions of disputes, which she allocates to the surrounding space. We breathe them in together with the air - this is how they end up in the respiratory and circulatory system. A healthy immune system successfully counteracts them. If the immune system is weakened, then black mold can cause bronchial asthma, allergic sinusitis, bronchopulmonary aspergillosis(often fatal) and other diseases. Allergy sufferers, children and the elderly are most prone to the influence of waste products of mold.

What to do?

The fungus must be removed. To eliminate the enemy completely, it is necessary repair, during which professionals will treat the room with a special preparation.

If repair is not yet in your plans, you need to treat the damaged surfaces with hot strong solution of soda and washing powder(a spoonful of powder, a pack of soda in a bucket of water). This composition creates an alkaline environment from which the fungus dies. Unfortunately, the spores that he manages to isolate before dying can hide deep under the tiles, and after a while the mold will revive. To prevent this from happening, the treatment is carried out every 1-2 months (or at the first appearance of fungi).

Prepared by Olga Kulinkovich, 7 September 2011.
Zvyazda newspaper, original in Belarusian: http://zvyazda.minsk.by/ru/pril/article.php?id=85499

Dampness arising from non-observance of certain rules in the bath is inevitable, no matter how you try to prevent it. Due to the high level of humidity in the air, the likelihood of mold and dampness is very high. And they are an excellent environment for the emergence and reproduction of various microorganisms.

Why and where does dampness come from?

Basically, due to problems with the ventilation system, if the ventilation is clogged or blocked altogether, then the moisture simply has nowhere to go and it begins to accumulate, and then penetrate into all cracks and crevices.

The second cause of dampness is poor heating; when hot, humid air comes into contact with ice walls, a condensation process occurs - the transition of a substance from a gaseous to a liquid state.

Another reason may be pipes with cold water, condensate constantly settles on them. High humidity can also be due to long-term storage of containers with water and large quantities of drying wet clothes indoors.

In neglected situations in the bathroom, beetles and other insects can appear from dampness in the bathroom, which feel at home in damp and damp places.

They are few in number, you can find such insects as silverfish, butterflies, mosquitoes, cockroaches. As well as woodlice and millipedes - kivsaki and flycatchers (which do not belong to insects at all).

How do you know if your bathtub is "infected"?

Stains, black and green plaque on the walls, damp and peeling wallpaper, an unpleasant smell, insects - all this serve as an alarm bell for the application of measures to treat dampness in the bathroom.

How to get rid of dampness in the bathroom?

First of all, to prevent the appearance of new fungus and mold, it will be necessary to remove all sources of moisture: if there are leaking plumbing fixtures (broken taps, toilets, broken hoses, etc.), fix, clean and fix the sewer pipes.

To remove already formed plaque in the form of a fungus, you can use soapy water, bleach, copper sulfate, any detergent and bleach. When using chemicals, you need to remove mold with rubber gloves so as not to injure your hands.

To cleanse all "damp" places, rinse them thoroughly with a sponge and detergent several times, then with water, then wipe with a dry cloth and treat with an antiseptic or waterproofing agent.

After that, and eliminate the causes of dampness from the inside of the room, the bathroom must be dried to the maximum using a portable electric heater, a construction hair dryer or a heat gun.

If, despite all the efforts made, the smell of dampness in the bathroom remains, perhaps you have not found the true source of the "mycelium", which is hidden deep in the walls, floor, ceiling or sewers, and the problem is cardinal.

Then you will have to urgently completely destroy the bathroom, destroy and clean everything that was deeply hidden, completely process the entire room and make repairs again, already doing everything in advance so that this does not happen again.

Preventing dampness

Ventilation

In the absence of any ventilation in a closed room, the appearance of dampness is predetermined. If it is there, but the ventilation hole is clogged or blocked, you need to clean it and install an additional fan inside the hood to draw out moisture.

In order for the humid air to leave faster, you need to ventilate the bath as often as possible: do not close the door, at least leave it wide open at least overnight, if there is a window or vent, sometimes open it to let in fresh air.

Waterproofing

To protect the surface from unnecessary moisture, paint the ceiling and walls with waterproof paints, and cover them with a waterproofing coating before cladding.

Temperature

If possible, install a wall and floor heating system, then you will not have to do a bunch of different manipulations to eliminate excess moisture, but simply turn on the heating. Or you can use a converter battery and panel radiator. Try to keep the temperature in the room at least twenty degrees, then the moisture will disappear even before it appears.

Dry wet clothes on the balcony, outside, not in the room
Check the ventilation systems regularly, if any problems are found, it is better to contact a specialist and only in extreme cases do the cleaning yourself
Buy heated towel rails, they can not only serve to dry towels, but also warm up a bathroom with walls
After taking a shower, do not close the doors until the room is ventilated.
Do not store large containers of water in a confined space for a long time.

Photo of a bathroom with dampness

General cleaning of the bathroom, maintaining cleanliness and the external shine of tiles and faience, but have we taken everything into account, and is there a danger hidden from the eye behind the gloss? Let's take a look at all the items in detail and eliminate possible mistakes that can cost everyone home health.

Toilet bowl
The toilet is probably the most dangerous thing in the house in terms of bacteria content. Under its rim is a multibillion-dollar army of microbes that are ready at any time to get on our skin and clothes, and for this they do not have to wait until you look there, because at the moment of flushing, bacteria scatter two meters in the radius of the toilet and get on you without direct contact ... In cases of a combined bathroom, these bacteria get on your hygiene products, soap, towels and toothbrush. What we advise you, in addition to regularly cleaning the toilet with detergents, is to close the lid before flushing and prevent bacteria from leaving their environment. Also, do not forget to change the toilet brush for the toilet bowl, there is nothing in its bristles, pour boiling water over it periodically and leave it in a soapy solution overnight.
Toothbrushes.
We do not expect any trouble from our toothbrushes, because we regularly change them and keep them clean. True, this cleanliness is deceiving, after the very first brushing of the teeth bacteria settle on the brush and multiply in the wet bristles, the brushes stand side by side, in one glass and generously share bacteria with each other, touching each other. It is quite clear that we cannot buy a new brush every time, brush our teeth and throw them away, but we can isolate them from one another, put them not in a glass, but in separate nests, we can scald the bristles with boiling water before use, and we can also place our brush with villi down into the mouthwash.
Shower cabin.
A very convenient and economical structure, the glass of the doors and the pallet shine, everything seems to be fine and does not conceal danger until we look into the wet joints where the booth touches the wall, especially the corner with the pipes. This is where the expanse for the formation of black mold and mildew is, all the conditions, and moisture, and heat, and not in front of our eyes. We advise you to pay special attention to this place, even if you do not see the fungus, do not forget to treat the joints with antifungal and antibacterial agents. Keep soaps and shampoos away from this place, everything that you will then rub into your skin, do not let fungus spores get into your cosmetics.
Tiles and seams.
Bathrooms and toilets are characterized by high humidity and poor ventilation, therefore, to preserve the walls and ease processing, they are often decorated in smooth tiles. On a seemingly clean tile, wet from fumes, harmful bacteria settle, we do not see them, but they can provoke bronchial asthma in us, especially if there is no sufficient air duct. There is only one way out, the same disinfection, but most importantly, do not forget to process the seams between the tiles, go through them with a brush and solution, because for the loose, porous structure of the tile mixture, it is not enough just to walk with a cloth, and more careful care is required.
Excessive cleaning with detergents.
Paradoxically, our love for cleanliness and the use of cleaning products can also harm us, for example, we simply inhale chemical vapors when cleaning, even with gloves, we do not guarantee that strong products do not get on the skin and, which is especially dangerous, is of poor quality. rinsing baths, sinks, tiles and toilet. If you have not washed off all the detergent, and it remains on the walls, then while taking a bath, you will get a stab in the back from the "friends of moydodyrs", because they are bacteria, that you are the same, they act on destruction and an allergic reaction is provided to you.