False alarm! Beard is not full of feces – VG

The shocking “study” claiming that beard contains more stools than a dirty toilet, turns out to be unreliable.

Monday reported several major news sites, both nationally and internationally, that the beard may be more stools than a toilet. Among those who wrote about the shocking research results, the VG minMote.

The man behind the “disclosure” was microbiologist John Golobic at Quest Diagnostics, a laboratory in the US state of New Mexico. According to sites like The Mirror and news.com.au contained beards in the test as many stools bacteria that they posed a health risk to beard own.

Journalist in the newspaper Guardian Australia, Nick Evershed, was one of many who let themselves fascinated by the study, and wanted to take a closer look at the survey results. But instead he found out that there simply are not any real study.

Tested only a handful of men

The results are drawn from a TV report at news station KOAT in New Mexico, where a reporter using q-tips to take samples from a handful of casual men which she then sends to a microbiologist who investigates bacterial content.

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Furthermore interviewed Golobic, who says he has identified a few intestinal flora bacteria, bacteria that occur naturally in our gut.

– There is such bacteria can be found in feces, he says, and emphasizes simultaneously faced journalist that the bacteria will not make the person sick, even if they testify uncleanliness.

From this statement, push worldwide interpreted it that these men outright has stool in his beard, which therefore do not match.

– It is true that human excrement is partly composed of intestinal bacteria, but it is not right to describe these bacteria alone as stools, writes Evershed.

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The case continues below.

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– Wash hands!

Senior Adviser at the Department of Infection Surveillance in Public Health (NIPH), Nina Sorknes is not particularly surprised by the findings of the survey conducted in New Mexico.

– It is important to emphasize that all people have their own bacterial flora that help to protect us; skin, hair and beard. We are moving in different environments and taking on common points of contact, and the hands are the vector carrying and move bacteria around, she says to VG.

She says that for example, an E. coli bacterium, which normally found in the gut, not necessarily create problems beard, but it is likely that it has come there because he does not wash their hands adequately after a lavatory, or affected other infected areas.

– When bacteria moved to places they should not be can cause problems, especially for people with poor immune systems. The bacteria will not survive for long outside their normal place of residence, unless they get nourishment from proteinaceous material such as saliva, blood, vomit, etc., she explains.

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Her best advice for bearded men, and of course all others, is therefore simple:

– Wash your hands regularly with soap and water!

Tuesday 5th of May is World håndhygienedag, organized by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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