Please make it a habit to wash your newly bought clothes, especially underwears, before you use them. This is very sensitive, not to mention hygienic.
Our clothes are made in different parts of the world. They stay in boxes, and go through many hands and exchanges before we purchase them for ourselves.
The following story is a true story:
Anthropologist, Susan McKinly, purchased 3 pcs. of brassieres in a hurry as she had to leave for an expedition. She did not have time to wash them, but wore one when she went to South Africa. After 3 days, she came back. When she was taking a bath, she noticed a strange rash on her left breast. She didn't knew what it was and quickly dismissed that the rash would just disappear in a few days time.
2 days had passed and she started feeling the pain on her left breast. She consulted a doctor. The doctor suspected it to be allergy, so he prescribed antibiotics and creams. A week had passed after that consultation and her left breast seemed to be swelling more and pain became a little bit intolerable. Due to this, she consulted another physician. Unfortunately, the physician wasn't a specialist on dermatology. However, he prescribed her pain reliever medications and a different cream. Apart from that, he referred her to a close friend, who was a dermatologist, but would be back after a week from a seminar. Decided to wait for the dermatologist she was referred to, she put bandage on her left breast.
When the time came for her to see the dermatologist, she went to him and narrated what she had done before the swelling and pain started, where she had been, and what other medications she had taken or applied on her left breast. The dermatologist requested her to remove the bandage she had put so the affected breast could be examined thoroughly. When the breast was revealed, both of them had the shock of their lives. They found many larvae growing and squirming within the pores and sores of her breast.
For your visual reference, please take a look at the following picture of Susan's left breast.
Kindly inform your family, friends and those you know. Let them know the consequences of wearing newly bought garments without washing them. This is not a hard information to disseminate if you do care for the people you love. Please share.
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