Originally Posted by
rumrunn6
that sounds sensible but I don't like putting on a wet bathing suit - plus letting the bacteria sit around all day to cook and breed - not sure I want to invite that bacteria back onto my body - once they're off, they need to find a new host.
Since I've spent the last 15 years as a microbiologist and bio-engineer, I guess I'll weigh in on this one...
It's a pair of shorts, not an incubated TSB jar. Hang your shorts up to dry when you get to work, and you
will not have seething angry bacterial cultures waiting to find an open pore so they can maliciously ruin your life.
First, if you bathe on a regular basis, you're not going to be harbouring anything to worry about. Second, even if you were just covered in a collection of the CDC's worst nightmares, a dry scrap of foam and lycra isn't the optimum breeding ground for it. Third, nothing you host is going to grow rapidly enough in an 8-12 hour workday, under the conditions I just listed, to be harmful via routine contact.