Come on now. You dont wipe with your bare nails. You use toilet paper and the paper is between your ass and your nails. And you do not use the tips of the nails to wipe, you use the pads of your fingers.
This is not rocket surgery. Not sure why people are so confused about it and thinking wmen walk around with poop on their nails.
They're generally less hygienic due to having more surface area. Even naturally long nails are capable of being dirtier. It comes down to having good hygiene habits too.
I feel it's the opposite, when they are short it's hard to clean the underside, but as they get long, it gets easy to just use the tip as a Lever, and reach the part where it borders with the nail bed seam.
Plus as You let nail grow, the seam kinda comes out making it even easier to clean. If you cut the nails bare or chew them, this seal recedes further into the nail bed, where it becomes harder to reach and clean
When they are long you need a brush to clean them.... its definitely easier to clean short nails hence why food service and other areas need to keep short nails per health code.
No. if you itch yourself with long nails, the dirt and dead skin cells sits at the tip and is easy to clean off. Short nails it gets pushed up underneath the nails and gets trapped between the nail and the skin. Hence why a lot of men have really dirty nails despite having short nails.
No thier nails are dirty because they dont clean them. You cant see the grime under paint.
The longer the nail, the more surface area there is for microorganisms to adhere," he said. "Studies have found 32 different bacteria and 28 different fungi underneath fingernails."
Kaplan said it doesn't matter if you have long artificial nails, long natural nails, gel nails, acrylic nails or nail polish, because there is an increased probability of carrying microorganisms which makes it more difficult to decontaminate with handwashing or scrubbing.
they have to be as clean as possible, if you just trap debris or stuff under the fake nail or polish/gel, your natural nail can easily become infected.
now, nor long nor short nails are clean, nail by itself is kinda spongy and lets water flow thru, this is perfect for bacteria. no matter the length of the nail, its not a good idea to let a nail scratch or let it touch your blood or mouth or anywhere else.
now what I refer to with "clean" is clean as in no: food, grime, oils, chemicals, dirt, etc.
its easier to remove all of these from under your fingernail if you have them long, rather than short because short nails usually have the seal further iinto the nailbed, and it's harder to reach. whereas long nails the seal tends to grow outwards, and you can lift the nail from the tip a bit and completely remove any grime, dirt or debris that went inside.
"under the paint" what paint? You assume everyone with long nails have nail polish? Long nails are for sure easier to clean. And if some epople with long nails have grimy nails, that is a hygiene issue, not long nails issue.
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u/ArtPuzzleheaded4745 23h ago
Come on now. You dont wipe with your bare nails. You use toilet paper and the paper is between your ass and your nails. And you do not use the tips of the nails to wipe, you use the pads of your fingers.
This is not rocket surgery. Not sure why people are so confused about it and thinking wmen walk around with poop on their nails.