Cleanliness and hygiene is a good thing. Some people are even a bit of a neat freak, but sometimes being too clean can backfire. These 6 parts of the body are too clean, but will become the cause of disease, or even disease over and over again…
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6 Things you shouldn’t Be “Too clean”
1, ears
Frequent ear gouging can easily cause inflammation
Earwax is not “dirty stuff”. It keeps the external auditory canal acidic and protects it from bacteria.
If the earwax is removed too clean, it is equivalent to removing a protective wire, and bacteria are more likely to enter the ear canal, which can lead to inflammation, pain, and sepsis.
Moreover, the healthy external auditory canal itself has certain self-cleaning function. In the case of speech, yawning, and other situations, ear wax will move along with the jaw, with the help of the skin hair on the push of its own excretion.
2, the nose
Wash the nasal cavity frequently and destroy the nasal mucosa
In addition to distorting the nose, frequent nostril picking may also damage the capillaries in the nasal mucosa.
Nasal cavity has self-cleaning ability, should not be too frequent, force cleaning, especially to avoid using fingernail force to dig, so as not to destroy mucous membrane, cause inflammation such as bacteria infection. When the air quality is poor or suffering from rhinitis, nasal congestion, with the help of a nasal applicator cleaning.
3, in the bellybutton
He who often picks his belly button will get cold and hurt his stomach
The belly button is a bacterial den that harbours about 1,400 species of bacteria, but most of these are non-pathogenic, and the grime, which looks dirty, keeps the belly button at a normal temperature.
If it is too clean, heat is released quickly, and gastrointestinal function may be impaired. If you pull too hard on your navel, you will injure the delicate skin of your navel, which may cause inflammation and, if aggravated, suppurate, allowing bacteria to invade vital blood vessels in your abdomen.
4, facial
Wash face blindly, skin problem is much
A lot of women in the life, because love the United States, clean to the face at ordinary times very arrive, but it is such frequent deep layer cleanses, let facial skin corneous layer “slow not come over”, destroyed normal sebum.
advice
(1) Choose mild cleanser as far as possible, generally 1-2 days can be used once, the exfoliator a month can be used 1-2 times;
(2) at ordinary times the skin is not clean, you can add a little warm water, the decontamination ability of the skin is also very strong, do not have to use facial cleanser;
(3) do not take a soap at will wash a face, its alkalescent degree is more likely than cleanser even tall.
5, vaginal
Blind with lotion, wash out gynecological diseases
The vagina of the woman is brought clean action, use clear water to clean at ordinary times it is enough, commonly used cleanness fluid is cleaned too too “clean” can let the bacterium group of vaginal balance become unbalanced instead, cause infection.
6, teeth,
The wrong way to brush teeth, damage the enamel
When brushing one’s teeth at ordinary times, 2~3 minutes are enough, not be brush longer, use strength to be able to brush more clean.
On the contrary, studies have shown that brushing for more than three minutes with too much force can actually damage tooth enamel.
Proper brushing methods
3 big blind areas that really need cleaning
- Wash your hands before washing your face and carefully clean your hairline
When a lot of people wash their face, they will subconsciously wash with clean water in their hands. In fact, it is very likely to touch the dirt and bacteria on their hands to the face. Therefore, wash your hands before washing your face.
When removing foam, especially around the hairline, you may face hair loss at a young age.
- Wash your armpits carefully
From the perspective of western medicine, armpit not only distributed sweat glands, there are a lot of nerves, blood vessels, lymphatic tissue, there is a certain immune defense function.
From the theory of Traditional Chinese medicine, armpit has a very important acupoint – Jiquan point, supplemented by acupuncture, massage, have the effect of soothing the chest.
Often scrub axilla, can also help improve intercostal neuralgia, periarthritis of shoulder.
- Wash your toes when soaking your feet
On the one hand, toes are easier to get dirty, especially between the fingers and nails. On the other hand, there are reflex areas on the feet corresponding to various viscera and organs, and the distribution of channels and collaterals is relatively dense. For example, regular rubbing of the big toe can stimulate the liver and nourish the eyes through qi and blood.
As an old Chinese saying goes, “If the water is too clean, there will be no fish.” Excessive cleanliness is not only bad for health, but also harmful to human health.
In fact, in our daily life, “good bacteria” account for the vast majority of all bacteria that people come into contact with. For example, bifidobacteria and lactobacillus in the intestinal tract are far more than “bad bacteria” in the intestinal tract. They are beneficial to human body, is to maintain human health indispensable “nutrients”.
If the blind pursuit of cleanliness, in the elimination of harmful bacteria, at the same time, it also kills the beneficial “good bacteria”, which will reduce the body’s immunity, more likely to allow harmful bacteria to enter.
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