Do disposable gloves in the kitchen really help with hygiene?


By AGENCY

If you want to use disposable gloves to protect yourself from germs, you will need to change them every time you touch something that could spread germs. — dpa

It might sound like an easy way to stop germs from spreading, but wearing disposable gloves isn’t very sensible in many everyday scenarios, infectious disease experts say.

While they’re indispensable to keep infections from spreading in hospitals or in labs, they don’t make much sense when it comes to

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