In a similar vein, you can get even porous dishware remarkably clean by scrubbing them out with salt and letting them bake in direct light for a while.<p>This works reasonably welly while car-camping or situations where doing dishes is annoying, or water is scarce but sunlight's plentiful.<p>direct sunlight for baking off mold and mildew and bleaching whites are other old but effective tricks.
I wonder why drying clothes in Sunlight is avoided in western countries. Even in Summer, i don't see people hanging clothes outside in US. While this is the norm in Asia.
So the statement "sunlight is the best disinfectant"[1] is indeed true, both literally and metaphorically.<p>[1] <a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sunlight_is_the_best_disinfectant" rel="nofollow">https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sunlight_is_the_best_disinfec...</a>
We use a steam-cleaning device (looks like a small vacuum cleaner) at home and I swear we get sick less often if we use it regularly. It supposedly kills over 99% of all kinds of pathogens. Not sure if it creates resistant strains, but I guess such high temperatures are difficult to adapt to.
In Eastern Europe pillows, bedsheets and blankets are put on the windowsill every morning for airing. It is also a customary thing to keep windows open for a couple of hours at least, every day. I was surprised that is not the norm in the US for example. It's the AC that is always blasting instead
There have been quite a number of recent studies into the use of light for medical/health purposes -- for example, using blue light for its antimicrobial effects[0], or various wavelengths of light for other healing effects[1,2]. Use of LED light for this purpose is often covered by insurance and has been developed & used by NASA[3].<p>Anecdotally, a family member of mine has one of those "led light therapy" systems[4]. Initially he was going to a local clinic to use one and ended up buying one of the packages for himself. I have seen person after person experience shockingly beneficial effects from using them (like people are saying "this is the first time I've slept without pain medication in years". From putting a pad covered in bright LEDs on them for 40 minutes. People are so skeptical, then suddenly their chronic pain issue is mitigated by simply sitting there.<p>0: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3438385/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3438385/</a>
1: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126803/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4126803/</a>
2: <a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799034/" rel="nofollow">https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3799034/</a>
3: <a href="https://www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/features/heals.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.nasa.gov/topics/nasalife/features/heals.html</a>
4: <a href="https://www.balancedlivingllc.com/light-therapy.html" rel="nofollow">https://www.balancedlivingllc.com/light-therapy.html</a>
Does anyone have a recommendation for a commercial product that can disinfect a room with UV? Something like a more scaled down version of what is used in hospitals. I'd use it at home, and when staying in a hotel room.
Read that a few months ago. I let some fruits out in the open, they stayed 'mint' for weeks. While in my house, after one week I'd see rot starting and mold showing its head.
I once dried something outside. It ended up being in half shade half sun. When I checked on it a couple hours later, there was a distinct fading line where the sun/shade line had travelled. The sun side was completely faded.