For a very brief period in 2020, men properly washed their hands. By 2025, barely 5% do, as before 2020.
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In case anyone's wondering, this is for USA; study done in California.
Key findings:
- 18% of UTIs in the study population were linked to E. coli strains of animal origin, which are known as foodborne UTIs.
- The highest-risk strains were most often found in chicken and turkey.
- People living in low-income areas had a 60% higher risk of foodborne UTIs compared to those in wealthier neighborhoods.
- Women and older men were especially vulnerable.
Don't fuck hamburger!
It was Spotted dick!
How about with a condom?
With buns like that, the burger was askin’ for it.
Or at least cook it to a temperature of 165 f first (then probably let it cool)
But not too cool
Or chicken breasts. That's how you end up a greentext.
Me, holding an entire ham between two buns:
now you tell me
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Women always get more UTIs because of the shorter urethras.
Bet the Republicans are going to change the law to increase the risk of this. They love spreading diseases.
They Servants of Nurgle, spreading his "blessings".
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Very few serious replies here, so I’ll try one …
I wonder if wearing gloves during food prep is the answer.
Stay with me here
- most infections are caused by by basic hygiene, scratching your hoo haw with hands that have touched other things, including other parts of your body.
- you touch raw meat as part of food prep (and women do most of the cooking)
- it’s well known and adopted that you need to wash your hands after touching raw meat, which ought to help prevent
- fingernails. Slime from raw meat also gets under your fingernails and most of us do not wash that well.
We have a series of observations leading to germs under fingernails after handling uncooked food as a possible disease vector. If it is a significant vector, how do you prevent it? I doubt people will start washing hands to that level of detail, but you already have a lot of cooks wearing latex gloves during food prep which should prevent it in the first place
As an alternative, consider not eating meat.
Sadly it won't help much if at all (that is why they are not required in professional kitchens per se)- people still touch things they should not and then touch these things ungloved.
There sadly are various studies proving this.
In fact, while gloved, they touch more things they shouldn't and then some with fewer hand washings overall, so... Win. 🤢🫡
Bummer
Yeah, they touch that too
Just go vegetarian.
Unironically, that might be the way. I used to have UTIs like every few months and now that I think about it, I haven't had one since going vegan in January.
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- Don’t put dirty objects up your hoohah
- Men: Wash your gentlemen bits (and your butthole/crack) every day; two or three times if needed
As an Italian I wonder: how do you manage that, not to say do it comfortably, without a bidet?
Either via the shower, or using sanitary wipes (e.g. Dude Wipes) when a shower is not available. In a pinch, a wet paper towel will help too.
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obvious joke :
be careful to not contaminate your "meat"
/ball-washing intensifies/
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