In a video, the dermatologist demonstrates what can happen if you don’t properly clean certain parts of the body.
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Remember when you used to come out of the shower, and your mother would ask if you had cleaned behind your ears properly? Well, she was more than right. According to dermatologist Lindsey Zubritsky, we need to pay more attention to cleaning certain parts of the body.
“I’m a dermatologist, and these are the places where you really need to wash more often,” she says in the video. “If you run your finger behind your ear and notice an odor or feel something, you should wash that area more,” warns Zubritsky, explaining that dandruff and scalp sebum tend to accumulate there.
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Then she talks about the second point we should be more careful about: the navel. According to the doctor, if neglected, it’s possible to develop an omphalolith, also known as a navel stone.
“This is a very common area for collecting sweat, debris, and dirt,” Zubritsky explains. “In fact, if you don’t clean it enough, you’ll have so much debris and dirt that you’ll develop a navel stone similar to this,” she says while displaying a photo of a dirty navel stone.
Finally, the dermatologist reveals the third part of the body that should be treated with more attention. “When you’re taking a shower, you really need to brush under your nails to get rid of dirt, debris, and buildup,” she explains. The doctor also warns about the risks a person faces when not properly cleaning these areas.
Zubritsky explains that not cleaning these three points adequately can lead to a person becoming a carrier of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), a bacterium resistant to various antibiotics. “If you frequently have bacterial skin infections, you may be a colonizer of MRSA in these areas.”
The post went viral and shocked many internet users. “Every day, I remember that I am cleaner than most people,” said one of them. “I was shocked to see how many people don’t clean their navels… I found out the hard way as a surgical center nurse,” lamented another.