You know that: when there are hardly any guests, you throw your own rules out of courtesy. Take off the shoes? Neiiiiiiin! Do not you need it! Although you would never even slip through the living room with the dirty tretters. Nevertheless, it makes sense to leave aside your courtesy. A lot of sense even. Because new studies show that collect more disgusting germs under our soles than on the toilet seat of a public restroom. GULP! Street shoes: Please take off! Yes! On our soles stick to 40% intestinal bacteria! B тhhhh. We do not necessarily want to know that on our couch carpet or in the kitchen. Of course, particularly affected are shoes with a low profile, so hiking boots, winter boots or running shoes. The reason: not only dog ИН ИНexcrement can begin in the profile, but we also enter the intestinal bacteria when visiting public toilets and often not completely clean floors. These germs are then introduced as uninvited guests in our apartment. Living area and kitchen should therefore rather not be entered with street shoes. At best it would be best if you could put off your shoes in front of the apartment door (but of course hardly possible in the staircase of a block of apartments). How unhealthy are the intestinal bacteria? Now a bit more comforting news: in most cases, the intestinal bacteria introduced with the shoes are rather harmless and do not lead to discomfort (only the knowledge to sufficient disgust!). But if your intestinal flora is out of balance (for example because of taking antibiotics), then an additional burden of bacteria can lead to diarrhea or in the worst case even an intestinal inflammation …