Nice and wet, mostly warm to: The washing machine is an ideal habitat for bacteria. Therefore, you should at least once or twice per month, the 60-degree program.

The only way to be sick-killed-causing harmful microorganisms reliably, explains Dirk Bockmühl, Professor for Hygiene and Microbiology at Rhine-Waal University, in the magazine “Good Health” (issue 1/2020).

In General, the probability, over the washing machine to infect is relatively low. Healthy people with an intact immune system do not need to overdo it with the bacteria-fighting therefore.

Otherwise is the case, however, if in the household someone lives with limited defenses: babies, for example, the elderly, Pregnant women or people with immune deficiency.

And also, if at home something Contagious cures – diarrhea or athlete’s foot, for example – it is better to be safe than sorry.

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The expert recommends that in such cases, the crayon or hot wash programme with 60 degrees, as well as a washing powder with bleach – so no liquid detergent.

Hygienic rinses are not suitable for fighting Bacteria, because they are against some pathogens, such as intestinal bacteria powerless.

And also an Eco-washing program in such cases is not the right way, so Bockmühl. In practice, the actual temperature is often lower than 60 degrees.

The manufacturers compensate by longer running times, the pathogens show it but mostly unimpressed.

Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)

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