I wish Lemmy would grow to the point when these Reddit moments of "I’m a dermatologist, and actually…” happen as usual as they happen on Reddit.
Hey at least we’re at the point where people are asking the questions! Literally three days ago nobody needed to summon a dermatologist.
I like your attitude!
Literally three days ago nobody needed to summon a dermatologist.
As a nerd with regular cycles of bad skin from dermatitis since my teen years I doubt nobody in a community of nerds needed to summon a dermatologist, but we may soon hit the sweet spot of being big enough to have specific expertise in comments without people lying for clout or karma farming!
Those were the days
Half the time they were lying anyway :(
I am an expert on the little bugs that live on your skin. Swimming for extended periods not only doesn’t harm them, it makes them stronger. Try to limit swimming to 2 hours or less or they may become strong enough to take over control of your body!
Actually the chlorine in our water supply is creating seven different super bugs right this moment that are resistant to everything!
That’s super interesting- would you have some sources or at least some keywords I could search for more info on how this happens?
It will happen one day… hopefully soon
Hey now, we can just lie and pretend to know what we’re talking about, just like most on Reddit! 🥳😉
That used to be the case on reddit. These days you have to scroll through hundreds of lame jokes to find an actual discussion.
You will still find these on Quora. They don’t even need to say what they are, their subtitle will just say it all
Except they usually won’t answer your question, they’ll just call you dumb and move on
I’m a Demodex folliculorum and I’m currently dating a Demodex brevis so I’m somewhat of an expert. Our host is pretty gross and rarely showers which has made the real estate in this area really expensive. We’ve been trying to move to another host but the opportunity hasn’t come up yet. Anyway, to answer your question, we have scuba gear.
Thanks for the insight, Greg.
I think this is the dude who stole our lawnmower!!
I did steal a lawnmower from a fellow lemming, and they were from @lemmy.world, but I think it was a different @UndulyUnruly
That smell. I recognise that smell. It’s the smell of pants on fire.
It’s so good to have diverse voices to hear from.
I never realised how much I really want to know the answer to this question.
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Yea, I wanna know if I’m committing genocide every time I shower or not. 😈
Shower, probably. Part of the function of soap (and scrubbing) is to dislodge dirt and bacteria, so it gets washed away.
So you’re either committing genocide by killing them outright, or forcefully relocating them from your body. (also why 99% soap generally doesn’t matter too much compared to regular soap)
Doesn’t the nature of subsurfacants rip apart most bacteria? That’s what I have always been taught, but my mother supplemented a lot of my education and I have learned she hasn’t always been 100% right… although neither were my textbooks l… so I guess flaws all around
TIL I have little bugs on my skin :(
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Hooh boy, want a kiss?
hey thats @Greg@lemmy.ca
So many!
healthier not to think about it
Actually though. How are the little guys in my eyebrows going? I need to know
Some do other don’t. Bugs/bacterias are resilient.
I would expect the chlorine in a swimming pool or the salt content on the ocean to be a bigger problem for the microscopic life on our bodies.
This is so nasty and interesting at the same time
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I am not a microbiologist. However I do know that bacteria are pretty resilient, and most pathogens and parasites can live for at least a few hours outside of a host. Plus your skin is really not all that smooth at a microscopic level, there are all sorts of little nooks and crannies to hold onto.
Drowning wouldn’t really be a concern for them, imo, but additives like chlorine are specifically meant to be disinfectants.
And we become a graveyard of little bugs
As another user pointed out, most bacteria and other microscopic forms of life don’t really “breath” in the way we think of it. Often they just absorb oxygen from their surrounding environments.
They can be washed away, killed by chlorine (pools), or killed by salt imbalance (ocean). However it’s really hard (read near impossible) to kill them all, and even if you did they exist in our environments naturally and from other humans as well as on things we’ve touched recently. So they repopulate quickly.
There are some arguments that Sodium Laurel Sulfate kills “good” bacteria on our skin.
I used to wonder the same thing about lice. I think it depends… but yeah no idea.
Nightmare fuel, thanks
Here’s what Chatgpt/google bard have to say:
The answer is: not necessarily. Most of the bacteria on our skin are adapted to living in wet environments, so they will not suffocate. However, some bacteria may be washed away or killed by the chlorine in the pool.
Why are we relying on language models to answer questions. These things don’t really “know” anything right?
They don’t, but they sound as convincing, (and are probably as correct) as a random blog you’d find googling your question
No one knows anything get over yourself buddy - it gave a correct answer way more polite than I ever could so who’s gonna complain
People are downvoting because of the first line.
Yeah, I’m aware. There were like 10 comments with no replies, so I thought it’d be fun to see what the Chatbot would say. I didn’t take its answer too seriously, but I knew people might be sensitive to the answer. It would have been unfair of me to not say that it was though. Now people can at least decide whether or not to discard the information by providing a “source”.
Rabbits
