The doctor Agnes Wold is known for not being too fussy when it comes to dirt.
But there is one product the bacteria expert would never use.
– No, then I’d rather dry myself on my clothes, she says.
The turbo hand dryer has become a permanent part of the interior of public toilets.
In Nyhetsmorgon, Agnes Wold doesn’t mince words when presenter Sofia Geite asks if she would use the machine.
– Never, but then I dry myself on my clothes.
“Doesn’t get clean with soap”
The disdain for the hand dryer started after Wolt read a study about how test subjects had their hands smeared with viruses, then codled away in the electric hand dryer.
– Then the virus was blown up two meters into the ceiling and then they naturally went down, says Wolt.
According to the doctor, who is also a clinical microbiologist, it’s not really even worth washing your hands with soap and water to get clean – it’s the drying itself that removes the dirt.
– The soap has quite a small effect and a dryer has no effect at all. If you dry yourself with a paper or cloth towel, you reduce the number of bacteria a little and remove dirt from your hands.
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Agnes Wold disses the turbo hand dryer: “Blows up the virus straight to the ceiling”
The pod in the opposite direction
Together with the host of Sweden’s Radio Krister Lundberg, she runs the podcast “ask Agnes Wolt”, which is now entering its seventh season. There she answers the listeners’ everyday problems and health questions – often contrary to the typical recommendations – which can also provoke the podcast partner Krister Lundberg.
– If you have spent your whole life eating vitamin tablets and working out and were very thin, you will say so
“no, it doesn’t matter. Eat what you want, have fun,” he says in Nyhetsmorgon.