Do you iron things?

SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
They do?
I knew someone who ironed their pants (and they wore teeny weeny pants), I could never understand why you’d deliberately degrade your fabric in such and unnecessary way!!
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Kills bacteria and fungi.... (my NHS doctor recommended I do the same. In the end I needed an operation. )

I don't know if you can buy it in the UK, I've not looked, but in Australia you can buy washing detergent with canesten in it.

https://www.canesten.co.nz/discover-canesten-products/canesten-hygiene-laundry-rinse-regular

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SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
Kills bacteria and fungi.... (my NHS doctor recommended I do the same. In the end I needed an operation. )

I don't know if you can buy it in the UK, I've not looked, but in Australia you can buy washing detergent with canesten in it.

https://www.canesten.co.nz/discover-canesten-products/canesten-hygiene-laundry-rinse-regular

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As I said in an earlier post ironing does kill bacteria 👍
As does tumble drying.
Personally I find a good quality washing machine that gives a long wash time and antibacterial sports detergent is enough. I never use the quick wash function.
But then it’s been drummed into me to use the hottest wash possible due to having to launder our own uniforms.

It’s always worth looking at the root course of flora imbalance. As I’m sure you know Candida albicans yeast lives on our skin all the time and is opportunistic. It only causes problems when the other flora are out of balance so can’t keep it in check.

It’s morphology is something all medical staff are well aware of because antibiotics all disrupt that delicate balance and if someone is compromised by ill health it can cause havoc with a whole range of things.

I’d be interested to know what the ingredients in the Canesten laundry wash are.

Sounds like you had a pretty rough time of it!!
 
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Windigo said:
I iron my dresses, I love to wear velvet but it's less flattering when it's creased. Also my husband's suits, and anything that crinkles. I also iron towels and socks in winter because it feels so cozy to put on warm clothing when it's cold.
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I doubt I've worn anything velvet since I was about ten.

As for towels in winter, the bathroom towel rack is directly above the heat vent. Don't need to iron towels here for warmth! Socks on feet warm up readily enough by themselves!

No husband here.
 
Around here everything gets ironed to kill putsi or mango flies.
They lay their eggs in moist clothes.
I got a scar on my shoulder from a sleeveless shirt that wasn't ironed properly.
Also, most people have donestic staff.

I said earlier I don't iron.
I get away with it by not drying clothes outside (putsi flies live in trees and shrubs) and drying them thiroughly
 
badjak said:
Around here everything gets ironed to kill putsi or mango flies.
They lay their eggs in moist clothes.
I got a scar on my shoulder from a sleeveless shirt that wasn't ironed properly.
Also, most people have donestic staff.

I said earlier I don't iron.
I get away with it by not drying clothes outside (putsi flies live in trees and shrubs) and drying them thiroughly
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Blow flies ☹️
 
badjak said:
Around here everything gets ironed to kill putsi or mango flies.
They lay their eggs in moist clothes.
I got a scar on my shoulder from a sleeveless shirt that wasn't ironed properly.
Also, most people have donestic staff.

I said earlier I don't iron.
I get away with it by not drying clothes outside (putsi flies live in trees and shrubs) and drying them thiroughly
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My sister used to work for the US Department of State and was living on the embassy compound in Nigeria some years ago. She went to get a massage and the therapist told her there was a small lump on her back and it was moving. She went to the DOS doctor who cut it open and there were Tsetse fly maggots inside. They had to scrape them out, clean it up and stitch the hole and she had to take antibiotics and such. It took awhile to heal and she has a scar. Best they could figure is the tsetse flies had laid eggs on the lounge chairs at the pool, and after swimming the chairs became wet, making a nice environment for them to lay eggs. The warmth of a human body caused the eggs to hatch and the little microscopic maggots crawled onto her skin and crawled inside. She said it had been itching for awhile off and on before she saw her therapist. Yuck.

Edit: my sister corrected me. It was NOT a tsetse fly, it was a tumba fly. It had been a number of years and I remembered incorrectly.
 
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Yeah, those are mango flies by another name.
Mine was on my shoulder. Came from a sleeveless shirt that wasn't dried properly.
It was misdiagnosed by a new gp is Uganda as an insect bite that had gone septic.
I went back a couple days later and one of the oldtimer gp's apologised. Flipped against the "boil" and out fell the maggot.
He picked it up and said "well, at least the fish will have a party", walked to the aquarium, opened the lid and threw the maggot inside :)

General procedure was to apply vaseline so the maggot to be couldn't breathe and would get the the surface of the skin and could be picked out with tweezers.
 
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