Contents:
- Medical Video: Your Ears Can Indicate Your Health: Don't Ignore These 8 Factors
- 1. Wash hands with soap
- 2. Clean sports equipment
- 3. Take a shower immediately
- 4. Clean sports clothes
- 5. Bring your own equipment
- 6. Keep your feet healthy
- 7. Cover the wound on the skin with a bandage
- 8. Tips for choosing a gym
Medical Video: Your Ears Can Indicate Your Health: Don't Ignore These 8 Factors
Be careful, your gym subscription can be a nest of harmful germs, fungi and bacteria. A study even mentions that the number of bacteria in the gym can be 362 times more than bacteria in the toilet seat. The study also showed that the number of bacteria on treadmillsports bikes and dumbbells each contain more than one million bacteria per square centimeter. Therefore, you must maintain cleanliness at the gym.
Fungal infections of the skin are the most likely diseases in the gym. This can be caused when you are exercising, your clothes and sports equipment will be exposed to sweat. Therefore, to prevent infection and maintain cleanliness in the gym, here are some personal hygiene tips that you can do.
1. Wash hands with soap
You are recommended to wash your hands with soap before and after exercising. After that, you can dry your hands with a clean towel or drying machine.
If indeed there is no soap and water, you can use hand sanitizers (hand sanitizer) with at least 60 percent alcohol content. You can apply the cleanser to the palm of your hand, then rub it on all the hands and fingers until your hands are completely dry.
2. Clean sports equipment
Before exercising, clean exercise equipment or pads before you use them. You can clean the exercise equipment with a disinfectant spray (bacterial killer) or just apply it. Clean the equipment after you finish training. If possible, you can also bring your own training equipment, such as yoga mats or boxing gloves.
3. Take a shower immediately
After getting tired of exercising, maybe you will prefer to immediately take a break or eat, even if you haven't taken a shower. In fact, after exercising your clothes will be full of sweat.
If you don't take a shower immediately, the bacteria will more easily breed in a warm and humid environment. So, you should immediately take a shower after exercising. Then dry your body with a clean towel thoroughly. You are encouraged to bring your own toiletries, including the towels you will use.
4. Clean sports clothes
You need to regularly wash your workout clothes, including swimsuits and socks that you use when exercising. Do not forget to clean your sport shoes regularly, even if not used outdoors.
5. Bring your own equipment
To maintain cleanliness at the gym, you are not recommended to share your personal equipment. Including drinking water bottles, towels, razors, combs, brushes, or toolsmakeup. Anything that comes into contact with other people's skin can increase the risk of fungal contamination of the skin and other types of infections.
6. Keep your feet healthy
After exercise, don't forget to clean your feet with water and soap to the toes. Then dry your feet with a clean towel thoroughly. This action can help prevent foot infections, such as water lice.
7. Cover the wound on the skin with a bandage
If you have a wound on your skin, you need to cover it with a strong and waterproof bandage or bandage to prevent more severe infections. This is also important so that you do not transmit viruses or bacteria from your wounds to fellow gym users.
8. Tips for choosing a gym
If you intend to exercise at the gym, you need to consider the condition of the gym. Starting from the cleanliness and available facilities. Including conditions for sports equipment, bathroom floors, toilet facilities, and others.
