A medical expert, Dr Elizabeth Uzorji, has said that users of second hand clothes risk contracting candidiasis and hepatitis A, B and C.
Uzorji in Jos on Tuesday said that such diseases were air borne and could be contracted easily through the constant use of second hand clothes.
“Those that patronises second clothes do not have the slightest idea of who the first user was.
“Those selling the wares also do not take their time to wash these clothes very well before marketing them.
“So the lack of adequate information about the negative effects of these second hand clothes among our people has placed users at high risk and a major cause of concern to public health experts,” she said.
The medical expert decried the situation where some women buy inner wears from the second hand clothes dealers and declared that such women were at the risk of contracting vaginal infections.
She advised the people to ensure that the items were washed before being used, stressing that such step would go a long way in reducing the chances of such infections.
Uzorji specifically advised that such second hand clothes be washed with hot water and detergent before being used so as to reduce the chances of any infection.
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Second hand cloths are far better than the so called new ones and the so called new ones are more expensive also, to me i still prefer second hand cloths because some of them are very very good compare to that of a new one and no cause for any regret since then
ReplyDelete@ anonymous 11:15;u must indeed be a child of a second wife or a concubine cos you sounded more of a second hand person.beware those ailement mention above are not cured with paracetamol.
ReplyDeleteYou are a fool in the society that our Government has nothing to offer the public
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