Did You Know That Your Shoes Could Make You Sick? That’s Why You Need to Stop Wearing Shoes in The House

A study conducted by scientists at the University of Houston, discovered that 40% of doorsteps samples were infected with Clostridium Difficile bacteria, and even 39 % came from shoe soles.

So you probably want to know why this is such a big problem, so as the name of the bacteria C. difficile familiar as C. diff. it is not so simple to deal with it. Probably the couple strains are resistant to antibiotics. This bug can transfer a watery diarrhea and sometimes it can pass to dangerous colon inflammation.

An article published in the New England Journal of Medicine it is suggested that around half a million of people are infected with this bacteria annually, and sometimes the case my complicated, tells the fact that 35% are hospital patients.

M.Jahanagir Alam, PhD., the author of the study says “The shoe of the sole are exposed of contamination of diverse sources and regularly contaminates our doorsteps.” 

Poop from different animals including birds is some of the grossness your shoes are in contact with. That scat can carry C. diff spores, Alam says.

The spores actually can live on a surface for moths. When someone ingests spores from the c. diff. they are exposed of getting sick.

According to Dr. Alam “If you want to avoid germs in your house and not to spend so much time on the toilet just put your shoes in front of the door, do not get in with them” 

Source: themagicoflife