What happens if you never take a bath?

Bathing is the job almost everyone does at least once a day. Perhaps that is something too familiar to each of us. So have you ever wondered what if you don't take a bath? Definitely yes. Not bathing will cause bad smell to the body, it directly affects relationships and daily communication. And more serious is health.

Here are some things that might affect if you don't take a bath:

1. Body odor.
2. Skin and hair are dirty.
3. The possibility of infection increases.
4. More pruritus, more risk of infection.

On average, each body is covered with a skin of 2 square meters, under the skin contains about 2.6 million sweat glands. In addition to sweat glands, our skin has thousands of tiny hairs. The body is constantly sweating even though you may not notice it. There are 2 types of sweat glands: sweat glands and the first gland of sweat . The whole sweat gland (eccrine) is the gland after sweating, the gland structure remains intact, and the apical gland (apocrine) is the gland after secretion is lost to the first part of the gland.

Sweat from the first gland contains proteins and fatty acids , which makes sweat appear milky or slightly yellowish. This is why stains under the arms on clothes often have yellow streaks. As you know, sweat doesn't smell bad. But when the bacteria on your skin and hair convert proteins and fatty acids into another form, they create an unpleasant odor.

On average each person can sweat from 1-3 liters per hour depending on the surrounding environmental conditions. Assume that you are sweating the most - 3 liters per hour. Then your skin and hair will have a lot of sweat. Dirt meets the right conditions will stick to you. Germs and microorganisms will naturally appear in a much larger amount on the body. It has been demonstrated that most bacteria, fungi and yeast do not present any threat to human health if they are only on the skin. However, if it enters the bloodstream, it is another story.

Usually without bathing, our body will be very itchy. That makes people tend to scratch a lot. Accidentally, you have scratched and damaged your skin a lot. At that time, the bacteria will invade our bloodstream through those scratches, which can even become a fatal risk of blood infection . This is very rare but not impossible.