The beach: something to fear

It seems that only the reservoirs are full of surprises and dangerous for careless daredevils who swim for the buoys. In fact, the sand holds no less unpleasant surprises.





Hawaiian "Armageddon"

Years of research American scientists helped to make a disappointing conclusion: beach sand can be deadly to human health, as it inhabits an invisible pathological flora, which can cause many severe, sometimes life-threatening diseases.

Researchers from the local University have made a working model of conventional beach: an artificial pond with sea water, Golden sand. For a certain time period of the experimental beach was deliberately contaminated, tending to the natural concentration, which is common for coastal areas. And then samples of water and sand closely studied with the help of available modern high-tech methods.

Serious magazine "Environmental Science & Technology" came to the conclusion that to be on the beach much more dangerous to health than to splash in the water. No wonder only last summer, as reported by the Council for the protection of natural resources of the United States in the annual report, in a relatively prosperous country that cares about the environment, were closed every tenth beach.

Who lives in the sand? It turned out, if to arm the electron microscope, directly beneath our feet, and a craving tender sun bodies you can find the whole zoo, teeming with pathogenic bacteria. Moreover, in the sand, their concentration is much higher than in the reservoir, even though the water periodically enter the waste water.

The fact that the composition of the water is constantly renewed by the flow, and bacteria decompose it more rapidly, and the sand environment is relatively stable. Pathological flora feels comfortable and confident in a very congenial, almost hothouse conditions:

• thriving colonies of Clostridium perfingens;
• collection of enterococci growing by leaps and bounds;
• fecal Streptococcus behaves like home;
• E. coli inhabits every inch.

Scientists calculate microscopic inhabitants of the beaches and coastal waters were literally shocked that shore them 100 times more.

The dangerous beach flora? As soon as you stepped barefoot on hot sand, we decided to build a child's sand Palace, or lay down to sunbathe blissfully sprawled on the beach, automatically began a close Association with countless Horde of harmful bacteria. You should not hope that your body can handle, and your illness will be spared. Too much of a risk along with a pleasure to obtain, for example:

• gastrointestinal infection;
• hepatitis;
• inflammatory diseases of the skin.

How to protect yourself and children from the "sand" bacteria? If you don't want to fight with symptoms of dangerous diseases, listen to the advice of the best doctors, going on a holiday or weekend on the beach near Moscow:

• buy plastic shoes, better not Slippers, and rubber shoes on the clasp, so as not to walk barefoot on the sand and to protect yourself not only from fecal bacteria, but dangerous fungi, which, for example, can cause a candidiasis of nails on his feet;
• you can become infected not only sand, but also from his own towels in contact with the sand first, and then skin, so thoroughly wash it after each visit to the beach;
• better to deny a child the pleasure of digging in the sand at the public beach than to deal with troublesome and costly treatment of pediatric infectious diseases, because they can be deadly for kids.
  
  P. S. And remember, only by changing their consumption — together we change the world! ©