Doctor claims we're all washing our underwear wrong - causing a gross mix-up

The hygiene adept explained that unless you acceptable your washing instrumentality to a definite temperature, you won't termination the bacteria connected your pants - which means you'll inactive beryllium wearing soiled underwear

We each cognize the drill: alteration your underwear regular and support them sparkling clean with regular washes.

But, brace yourselves, due to the fact that you mightiness inactive beryllium donning soiled briefs contempt your champion efforts. A wellness adept has dropped a bombshell connected our laundry habits, revealing that galore of america are failing to banish capable bacteria successful the wash.

Doctor Lisa Ackerley, dubbed The Hygiene Doctor, has dished retired immoderate indispensable advice, stressing that unless your washing machine is cranked up to a circumstantial heat, those pesky germs volition cling to your undies, leaving you successful not-so-fresh undergarments post-wash.

She's adjacent warned against mixing your intimates with different household linens. She warns: "With knickers and pants, thing nether 60 degrees won't termination the bacteria. Don't enactment the knickers successful with the beverage towels connected a debased wash, due to the fact that you mightiness person faecal contamination successful your knickers and you wouldn't privation that adjacent your kitchen."

So, if you've been laundering your delicates astatine a chill 30C oregon 40C, oregon tossing them successful with the remainder of your wardrobe, you've apt been wrapping yourself successful less-than-pristine panties. Not precisely a comforting thought.

For those who can't crank up the vigor connected their washing machines, fearfulness not, your underwear tin inactive beryllium saved from unwanted faecal matter. Dr Ackerley recommends putting a laundry sanitiser into the premix to termination disconnected immoderate lurking germs.

You tin snag these useful additions astatine section supermarkets similar Sainsbury's, which offers its ain marque for a specified £2.80, oregon popular implicit to Asda for a Dettol mentation priced astatine £3.75. And if that hasn't already made your caput spin, brace yourself for the revelation that there's a 'wrong' mode to hitch post-loo sojourn – particularly for the ladies.

Tap Warehouse has unearthed that a staggering one-third of British women are wiping from backmost to front, a method that could pb to immoderate alternatively sore issues. Their nationwide canvass revealed that 33 per cent of women opt for this arguable technique, a stark opposition to men for whom it poses nary issue.

However, for women, this attack could usher successful immoderate nasty infections. Dr Luke Powles from Bupa UK advises: "A woman's urethra and anus are rather intimately located, truthful it's champion to hitch from beforehand to back. Otherwise, you could beryllium spreading faeces from the anus to the urethra. Spreading bacteria to the urethra tin pb to a urinary tract infection."