Do not reuse wet tissue is easy to cause skin allergy

Autumn October is a good time to go out to enjoy the autumn, and just past the "National Day" holiday, many people also choose to travel or visit relatives and friends. When traveling, more and more people used to carry wet paper towels, before meals or after entering public places, at any time to take out a wipe hands, not only remove the trouble of washing hands, but also wipe tables and chairs, and even mistakenly think that can be sterilized. Wipe hands, wipe face, wipe tableware, wipe tables and chairs and even wipe private parts... Wet wipes seem to have become the "all-purpose towel" for going out. However, are wet wipes really universal disinfecting wipes? Can it replace hand washing?
Experts warn that wet wipes contain a variety of additives, excessive contact may cause skin allergies, the best way to disinfect or wash hands with soap and running water.
Wet tissue is prohibited to label sterilization function
Reporters visited a number of supermarkets found that wet tissue brands as many as dozens of kinds. At present, there are many kinds of wet wipes on the market with different uses, which can be basically classified into two categories. One is the ordinary wipes that are disinfected themselves, but can not disinfect other items. They contain skin care ingredients, and can only be used for skin moisturizing maintenance. The other category is disinfection wipes that not only sterilize themselves, but can also sterilize other items, generally indicating disinfection or bactericidal ingredients on the package. Some wet wipes even advertise their antibacterial properties with the slogan "Healthy, no germs."
According to the Ministry of Health "Disinfection Product Label Specification Management" provisions: sanitary wet wipes, wet wipes and other products are prohibited to label disinfection, sterilization, sterilization, drug, high efficiency, non-toxic, prevention of venereal diseases, treatment of diseases, reduce or alleviate disease symptoms, anti-inflammatory, anti-inflammatory, no inspection basis for the use of objects and shelf life content.
Wang Yongchun, deputy chief physician of the Department of Dermatology at the Fourth Affiliated Hospital of Harbin Medical University, said that while disinfecting wipes can be used to wipe hands, tables and chairs, before and after meals, or in the absence of water and soap, they can only do so much. Because some of the ingredients contained in the disinfectant wipes also have an impact on the human body, such as chlorine, bleach powder, alcohol, etc., these ingredients are not indicated on the package, but will irritate the skin, mucous membrane, eyes, damage the sebum membrane that protects the skin, frequent use will make the skin become dry.
Women's care wipes, most of which add anti-bacterial ingredients, claim to "clean private parts, avoid bacterial growth, refreshing and avoid smell." But Wang Yongchun does not recommend that women often use their private parts, nursing wipes although to a certain extent can play a antibacterial effect, but not sterilization, but will break the original acid-base balance in the female body, causing a variety of gynecological diseases.
Baby wipes are more demanding than adult wipes because baby skin is so delicate. Baby wipes are divided into ordinary wipes (to wipe the buttocks) and special wipes for the hand and mouth. Wang Yongchun pointed out that alcohol, flavor, preservatives, fluorescent agents should not be added to baby wipes, but they should not be taken lightly. Especially love to eat the baby, can not frequently use wet wipes to wipe their hands, can use gauze or towel dipped in warm water to wipe.
Wet wipes are no substitute for washing your hands
The liquid content of wet tissue is generally about 80%, and the main components are water and additives. In order to avoid the reaction between water and liquid medicine, the water used in wet tissue must be specially treated water, such as refined water, pure water, etc.
There are also many types of additives, including moisturizers such as propylene glycol, which helps the active substance in the liquid dissolve in the water, making the water less volatile; Preservatives such as phenoxy ethanol, methyl p-hydroxybenzoate, etc., can maintain the activity of various substances in wet tissue; Antibacterial agents such as sodium lactate, eucalyptus leaves, etc., to destroy and suppress bacteria in hand sanitizer; Surfactants such as polyoxyethylene hydrogenated castor oil, polyether, etc., used to remove dirt and grease, to achieve cleaning effect.
In general, when we wash our hands with soap, we get rid of almost all the bacteria, ascaris eggs and so on, by rinsing them with running water, whereas wet wipes are not as effective. Because most people don't wash their hands after using wet wipes, chemicals can remain on their hands. A study in the US has shown that instead of removing bacteria when wet wipes are reused, they can actually transfer some of the surviving bacteria to uncontaminated surfaces. So be careful, it's best to replace a paper towel each time you wipe a new surface.
Frequent use of wet tissue skin allergy
Guo, a young girl, usually likes to carry a bag of wet tissues to wipe sweat and hands, which is not easy to leave paper scraps, but also sterilization and decontamination. However, this time, she found her face inexplicably red, swollen, itching, originally with wet tissue out of the dermatitis.
In this regard, Yangzhou Subei Hospital dermatology deputy chief physician Dr. Gao said that many consumers believe that "wet wipes" as the name suggests should be paper. However, the main raw material for the production of wet wipes is actually non-woven fabric, its main component is polypropylene grade polypropylene. As wet wipes contain various additives, excessive exposure to chemicals such as preservatives and alcohol can easily lead to skin allergies such as contact dermatitis. Moreover, the extensive use of wet wipes not only wastes valuable oil resources, but also easily decomposes after discarding, easily causing new "white pollution".
Dr Koh advised using wet wipes sparingly on the face, especially the eyes, middle ear and mucous membranes, and should not be used to directly wipe sensitive areas such as wounds or private parts. If the skin appears red, swollen, itching and other symptoms after use, should stop using immediately.