Today in gross news you probably don’t want to hear, children’s school uniforms are absolutely teeming with bacteria. And when we say teeming, we mean it.
Colony-forming units (CFUs) are used to estimate the number of viable bacteria in a sample, as they all grow together in a little gang of germ-iness.
A study by Bimuno found the cumulative colony-forming units (CFUs) per uniform worn by a child in year 2 at school (when they’re aged six to seven) harboured an eye-watering 29,283,677 CFUs.
To put this into perspective, this is a whopping 12,353% more bacteria than the average toilet seat.
Interestingly, school children seemed to harbour more bacteria on their uniforms than kids at nursery – Bimuno, a supplement provider, found the number of CFUs on a uniform worn by a child attending nursery full-time totalled 11,774,416.
It suggested school cardigans carry over 1,000% more bacteria than the sole of a shoe and kids’ school socks harbour 408,000% more bacteria than an iPhone. Lovely.
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