How your shower could kill you - the dangerous diseases, bacteria and hidden illnesses lurking in your bathroom.
It's not just disgusting, it can be quite worrying too - because some of the dirt inside our shower spaces could bring fatal consequence.
Jumping in the shower is meant to leave us feeling fresh, clean and invigorated.
Many of us spend hours a week scrubbing, buffing and enjoying a hot shower to invigorate us in the morning or send us off to sleep at night.
But startling new research reveals the spray that comes out of a unit could be more dangerous and dirtier than the water in our loo.
Scientists at Manchester University studied the slime that builds up inside showers on behalf of shower disinfectant system Shower Klenz.
Their research into bathroom scum found bacteria and fungi linked to a range of illnesses from Legionnaires' and Crohn’s disease to septicaemia and skin, hair, ear and eye complaints.
And in some cases, these risky illnesses can kill.
Dr Paul McDermott, a former Health and Safety Executive Inspector and an expert in Legionella risk control, has been monitoring the findings.
He said: “Nobody wants to stand under a shower knowing the water coming out of it is dirty.
"But water from an untreated shower could contain more bacteria than you’d find in your toilet.
“The aerosols created when you’re stood under the spray can send any bacteria from the water system into your lungs, onto your body and, in certain circumstances, into the bloodstream too.”