Water borne bacteria

I live in Mexico and even though I do NOT drink the tap water, I am curious about any impact of WASHING DISHES WITH THE LOCAL TAP WATER.

When I moved to Mexico, I almost immediately began to have diarrhea. 9 years on and the diarrhea is out-of-control. It has now become a life threatening event. Seriously.

For drinking and making ice cubes, I buy bottled water AND I also boil said water before consuming it.

Question: assuming that I wash my dishes with hot soapy water, AND allow those dishes to completely AIR DRY, how likely is it that those dishes still have some pathogen on the surface ?

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I am not qualified to answer the question you ask. However, with a problem that serious I would myself get a dishwasher and use that for washing all crockery, utensils and cooking pots. It doesn't have to be a full-size one, here in the UK they are made as smaller, worktop versions for smaller families or single people, nor sure about that where you are though. The fact you are using bottled water for everything else more or less rules that out. A dishwasher washes at temperatures far higher than you could use to wash items yourself, it also dries them so they can be put away where they cannot easily be contaminated in any other way.

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Bakerman, is your memory ok?

Your near identical thread dated 7 July last year is here:

https://www.over50sforum.com/showthread.php?t=69085

and I reminded you of that thread two weeks ago in your SIBO thread (post 36) here::

https://www.over50sforum.com/showthr...t=72466&page=4

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I THOUGHT my memory was ok, however, I had completely forgotten about the thread I posted last year RE water bacteria. Thanks for the reminder.

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My thoughts exactly, Baz.

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... you'll have to make a note of your threads bakerman

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Bakerman your body will have adapted to local bacteria after so many years. It's usually tourists that are affected. Have you had a CT of your pancreas?

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If in doubt concerning your water supply for dish washing, rinse using a well diluted sodium hypochlorite solution and allow to dry in free air. That basically will chlorine bleach them and by air drying any residual chlorine will disappear.

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Good advice LD
That will kill of any lingering germs don’t think this is the problem myself but it’s an easy precaution to take .

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Do you use the same brand of bottled water all the time bakerman ??
Or do you get it from a different source each time
Having diahorea for over a year is NOT normal !!

Donkeyman! 🤔🤔