5 bad habits that seriously affect health, how many do you know?

Some bad habits actions we make inadvertently in life, or some behavioral habits we develop daily, are quietly harming our health.Unfortunately, many people don’t notice these details. Let’s see how many of them you have.

1. The mobile phone is not cleaned often

The most essential item that modern people cannot leave behind is their mobile phone. They spend several hours playing with their phone every day, but most people do not wash their hands before playing with their phone. Therefore, when their hands touch other objects and are contaminated with bacteria, viruses, and other microorganisms, they then touch their phone, bringing these microorganisms onto the phone body.After a month or two, the phone becomes visibly dirty.

A dirty mobile phone can pose a health risk. Some people hold their phone up to their face to make calls, while others eat with their hands while playing on their phone. As a result, microorganisms on the phone can enter the body through the mouth, nose, and ears, posing a health risk.

Do you often clean your phone? Some people will wipe the screen of their phone with a tissue containing disinfectant alcohol after the screen becomes dirty, but the sides, back, camera, power button, volume button, data cable interface, microphone interface, and other parts of the phone are neglected, which is not correct.It is recommended that you use a wet wipe containing 75% disinfectant alcohol to clean your phone thoroughly every three or four days.For mobile phones with cases, remove the case first and clean the inside and outside thoroughly to avoid sanitation dead ends.

2. The towel for wiping hands is not often washed

After washing your hands, do you use a dry towel to wipe them?Then, do you often wash your towel?If the towel used to wipe your hands is not often washed and dried, it is very easy to harbor bacteria, viruses and other microorganisms, and even become a transit station for microorganisms.This is because the towel is a cotton fabric, and its special structure makes it easy to get stuck with various oils, sweat, dandruff, dust, etc. It is often placed in a humid environment and lacks direct sunlight, creating conditions for the growth of various microorganisms.Wiping your hands with a towel will cause your already clean hands to be contaminated with a large number of microorganisms.

If you prefer to use a dry towel to wipe your hands, it is recommended that you frequently wash your towel and sun-dry it in the sun.Alternatively, you can use disposable paper towels to dry your hands instead of using a dry towel, or simply air-dry your hands in the air.

3. Rubbing eyes frequently

When the eyes feel uncomfortable or get foreign objects, many people’s first reaction is to rub their eyes with their hands.This behavior is highly undesirable, regardless of whether your hands are clean or not.

First of all, our hands may look clean, but in fact, there are a lot of microorganisms on them. Rubbing the eyes with unclean hands can easily cause eye infections, such as styes and chalazia.

Secondly, even if you wash your hands very clean before rubbing your eyes, if there is a foreign body in your eyes, rubbing your eyes will increase the movement and friction of the foreign body on the ocular surface, which may cause damage to the corneal, conjunctival, and eyelid conjunctiva of the ocular surface.

Finally, even if you wash your hands very clean and there is no foreign body in your eyes, just rubbing your eyes because you feel uncomfortable can also bring some risks.Because frequent rubbing of the eyes can put pressure on the cornea, causing changes in the curvature of the cornea and increasing the degree of astigmatism.

When the eyes feel uncomfortable, the correct approach is to rest and relax the eyes, close your eyes and rest, look into the distance, and apply a warm compress to the eyes.When foreign objects enter the eyes, the correct approach is to frequently yawn, increase the number of blinks, or apply artificial tears to allow the foreign objects to flow out with tears.If this method does not successfully remove the foreign objects, it is recommended to seek medical assistance as soon as possible.

4. Touching public facilities at will

Restaurants, barber shops, cinemas, shopping malls, hotels, hospitals, stations, transportation vehicles, amusement parks, public toilets, elevators, gyms, libraries and other public places have some common public facilities or public goods that appear to be clean and harmless, but in fact may potentially harbor some health hazards.

For example, the handrails and pull handles on public transportation, the door handles, faucets, and toilet bowls in public bathrooms, the dumbbells, barbells, and equipment in public gyms, the books and tables and chairs in libraries, the equipment and seats in amusement parks, all appear to be clean on the surface, but when one person uses them and another person uses them later, germs and viruses can be transferred from one person to another through the transfer of these public facilities and public goods.

Therefore, before using public facilities and public goods, we should try our best to clean them, and during the use process, we should not rub our eyes, mouths, and noses with our hands. It is best to wash our hands promptly after use.

5. Wrap food with paper towels

When there are no other food packaging bags, will you choose to wrap your food in paper towels?This is not advisable.It is important to know that in order to whiten paper towels, fluorescent whitening agents are used in the production process.

After contact with food (especially fatty foods), fluorescent whitening agents will transfer from the paper towel to the food. The higher the temperature of the food, the more the transfer of fluorescent whitening agents.Fluorescent whitening agents are not easily decomposed in the human body. After long-term intake, their toxicity will accumulate in the liver, producing potential carcinogenic factors.

If it is indeed necessary to use something to package food, the correct method is to use food-grade special packaging paper or plastic bags, freshness boxes.