Rubber Duck Bath Bacteria

The rubber duck has long been a child s beloved toy come bath time a little squishy friend who s always there to splash around with.

Rubber duck bath bacteria.

This video is unavailable because we were unable to load a message from our. Bath water also contains bodily fluids and additional bacteria and dirt that cling to. The large majority of the bath toys had areas of black discoloration indicating mold growth and diverse communities of bacteria including legionella. Bath toys can harvest bacteria and lead to infections.

12 33 pm pdt march 28 2018 deborah hastings. The study by the swiss federal institute of aquatic science and. Rubber ducky bath toys contain bacteria and mold study finds. A study that tested 19 different bath toys found that the murky water released by rubber ducks can contain potentially pathogenic bacteria that can cause eye ear and stomach infections.

Rubber ducks used as bath time toys are a haven for bacteria that could spread diseases swiss and american researchers have found. As some parents have long suspected the squishy toys are a haven for bacteria. Scientists have the dirt on those cute little yellow duckies your kids like to play with during bath time. The inside of a rubber ducky is gross.

A new study published in the journal npj biofilms and microbiomes says that slimy stuff inside bath toys are teeming with bacteria. But turns out that rubbery pal may not be so clean despite. Bath time just got a little harder for parents. In total researchers found 75 million cells of bacteria per square centimeter of duckie.

Chlamydia bacteria were detected on five of the real bath toys. Much of the bacteria in question came from the water inside the ducks. Here s how to clean rubber ducks and other toys.