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Shoes or not most diseases cannot infect through skin. They need mucous membrane. Washing hands after touching the feet is enough to keep the worst stuff out.
by lolc 6y ago
Shoes or not most diseases cannot infect through skin. They need mucous membrane. Washing hands after touching the feet is enough to keep the worst stuff out.
- BenjiWiebe 6y agoThis is why it's a bad idea to pick your nose with your toes.
- lolc 6y agoWell in general it's a good idea to wash your hands and feet before letting them touch your face.
- bobthepanda 6y agoWell, diseases can also infect through breaks in skin, and your feet are probably one of the roughest treated parts of your body.
- lolc 6y agoIt's not a major vector. We don't always wear gloves either. The difference between feet and hands is that hands frequently touch mucous membranes, where feet don't. So if you can move a contaminating activity from the hands to the feet this easily reduces infections by an order of magnitude for that vector.