Bacteria sick shower head!

Maybe it's 212 up saltydog's ass where he pulls out these funfacts.

You can still heat it to 212 degrees, dopey.

If it's too hot for you, get out.

I enjoyed your post and figured a few others might enjoy it also. after all it was in today's news....

Don't know about shower heads, but when I bought this place it had been empty 6-8 months, and the bathroom sink spit out nasty-smelling black water for a few minutes when first used. 2-3 minutes of full hot seemed to clear it up.

I ain't losing any sleep over it. And I'm sure not replacing shower heads quarterly, like one of the newspaper articles around here suggested. I might soak it in CLR or something if it teakettles up on me, in spite of the water softener. (My well water sucks, mineral-load wise)

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Only in a sealed container dopey. You can't do it in an open pan.

Harry K

Two things doctors learn on the first day:

All bleeding stops eventually.

Everybody dies from something.

Steve

You are wrong. Water can be heated past the boiling point.

You could also, of course, heat oil to 500 degrees. That would kill bacteria, too.

For that matter, if you think you can do it only using water by using a pressure cooker, you still have a way of heating water to 212 degrees, don't you?

Using a pressure cooker for sterilization is beyond paranoid. Why not just get it right to begin with by buying an autoclave?

Oh, relax! I haven't even agreed that bacteria in a showerhead is a problem. Someone posted that they thought that the hot water in their dishwasher was sterilizing things, and I simply pointed out that anything less than 212 degrees for 20 minutes is not considered sterilizing. One person even went off the rails over my use of the word sanitize, versus sterilize.

I am amazed of all the bacteria that isn't in my cold water lines that aren't 120 degrees. How does that work?

Are you people for real?

Hank

Maybe you shouldn't have dropped out of school in the third grade, Hank.

I suggest to you and others that are on a public water system to follow the fire department or service department, or whomever flushes the fire hydrants to see what the water looks like that comes out. This is the same water you are drinking. The first few gallons are what has been laying in the barrel of the hydrant, after that, it is what is in the water line that you drink. See how long it takes to "clear up".

You'll be amazed of the junk you drink, and still live.

Hank

on 9/16/2009 2:51 PM (ET) snipped-for-privacy@dog.com wrote the following:

Nope. I'm saying that any bacteria in the water is the same coming from the faucet or the shower head, and one drinking from the faucet is putting that bacteria in the body, which could be more dangerous than showering with the same water.

So, you don't know why a shower head would be different from a faucet? It's VERY different.

Now you've made me spill hot coffee on my lap! I hope I'm not sterilized! A sanitizer need only produce a 5 log reduction. That's not sterilizing. Anything less than 15 minutes at 250 F is not considered sterilizing.