DokterSehat.com-there is a belief in the unique in the life of our society, namely when a family member is experiencing a sore throat, then it is good a toothbrush used by sick relatives is removed and replaced with new. There Is no correlation between a toothbrush and a sore throat are true?
A sore throat is meant, here is a kind of disease pharyngitis caused by streptokus. A study on the time used for the production of the discovery that bacteria cause disease pharyngitis streptokus can be found and grow with fairly quickly on a used toothbrush. Perhaps for this reason that many people replace brush his teeth if you experienced pain in his throat.
However, a recent study actually give very different results. Research at the University of Texas Medical Branch performs testing on the toothbrush to check if the bacteria streptococcus which can cause inflammation of the throat in a toothbrush are present or not. This research was carried out on 54 pieces of toothbrushes, where as many as 14 a toothbrush used by people suffering from a disease of the throat, 13 pieces of toothbrush used by patients of a disease of the throat due to the bacteria streptococcus and 27 other pieces of toothbrush used by people who are still healthy.
This quite shocking research results, where the bacteria streptococcus only in a single toothbrush found, is even a toothbrush so not derived from patients with streptococcal pharyngitis at all. Yes! The toothbrush is so owned by healthy people.
Results of this study showed that misbehaving when someone on his throat, then used toothbrushes were not dumped. However, if you want to keep the health of your mouth and throat, it's good that you can replace the toothbrush periodically when the toothbrush is already long enough.