Bathing in a jacuzzi is hazardous to health

Stay in a jacuzzi can turn back not only pleasure from a hydromassage, but also recently acquired diseases, informs magazine PM Engineer.

To such conclusion Rita Mojes after the analysis of 43 samples of the water taken from private and public jacuzzis has come the microbiologist from Texas university A&M.

"In all jacuzzis checked up by us growth of those or other microbes" was observed, - has informed Mojes in interview Reuters Health. - "As I carried out the analysis on the limited number of the microorganisms, the received results represent only a top of an iceberg of a real-life problem. Besides, I did not do the analysis on viruses".

Usual water water contains to 138 bacteria in a teaspoon, and many samples are sterile, has explained the author of research. In a teaspoon of the water taken from jacuzzis, on the average contained more than 2 million bacteria, has declared Mojes.

According to the received results, in 95 % of the jacuzzis subjected to the microbiological analysis, intestinal bacteria, in 81 % of a jacuzzi - pathogenic fungi and in 34 % of a jacuzzi - stafilokokki, representing potential threat for a life have been found.

As the reason of growth of bacteria that chemical processing of system of pipes of a jacuzzi is complicated serves, therefore at frequent use of a pipe serve as the favorable environment for a congestion and growth of potential activators of infections. These microorganisms in many cases form a biofilm - commonwealth of the microorganisms growing together and possessing bolshej stability to washing-up liquids, has explained Mojes.

At the moment when from the special atomizers located on walls of a bath, the water streams are thrown out, the water infected with bacteria arrives in a jacuzzi. "At emission of a water stream the aerosol is formed, containing particles of these microorganisms which arrives in easy and natural apertures of a body - in a usual bathroom of it does not occur", - the researcher has added.

According to Mojes, the microbes containing in a jacuzzi, can be the reasons of infections of urinogenital ways, a skin and lungs, and represent the greatest danger to children, old men and people with the weakened immunity.