Many hospitals are now using white vinegar to clean and disinfect everything. With cut backs, it has become more economical. With germs (all over the world), that have become immune to cleaning solutions and antibiotics, vinegar has become the number one choice. Vinegar has a perfect PH balance, being neither acid nor alkaline. Germs operate outside this perfect balance and perish when their environment PH is changed.
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Vinegar is a pretty good cleaning solution... But, I think someone gave you the wrong information, (about it not being acid or alkaline) because it's a strong acid & that's why it cleans & can kill some germs.
Yes, white vinegar's acid, pH about 2.4, and 'optimum' skin pH 5.5 relates to adapting to acidity from CO2 in air. (Also, global warming is encouraging more acid with more carbon dioxide.)
Does it really disinfect? Is there any info or research that backs this up?
Here is some information on website regarding the use of vinegar to clean and disinfect in homes and medical facilities.
I was incorrect about the ph balance of white vinegar. However, it does work in killing bacteria and many hospitals and doctors offices are now using it to clean and disinfect.
en.allexperts.com/
blizen.com/
www.yeastinfectionadvice.com/
Some more info on vinegars below:
White vinegar is ph 5.5
Apple cider vinegar is 7.5 and is used to alkaline digestive systems.
5% Acetic acid is the chemical name of vinegar, and it can kill a few harmless germs. At the same time, it must be noted that hospitals are under law and heavy regulatory oversight, and must use EPA-approved surface disinfectants which have been tested effective against the toughest pathogens, especially M. tuberculi. None of these approved agents are vinegar, and I have put in a whole career in healthcare doing this same disinfecting, patient after patient, in dental offices which must be under hospital rules because of involvement with body fluids, including more blood than most doctors will ever see. Information is up on the net from lots of people with their own personal stories about which they have passionate feelings, and this drives them to spread material which they feel is good according to their experience, while it may not align with more proven concepts.
I find ordinary bleach good for kitchen/bathroom cleaning. I also use bleach in a spray bottle for regularly spraying inside my shower to cut down on scrubbing.
Hospitals using vineger?
I took my wife into a local Emergency Room about 2 years ago.
i looked around and found many uncleaned areas that had to be that way for days. Dust ,stains built up dirty wax on the floor .
Even the table she where she laid the underneath mecanicals were filthy.
I would have settled even for a viniger cleaning of that area.
I was a school custodian for 18 years.
At first we cleaned with some soap , sometimes ammonia. and sometimes a little bleach.
Later they kept changing soaps, then went to germicides . They Forbid us to use Ammonia and Bleach only on human fluid spills.
As we all know germs and bacteria get use to and become tolarent of most any chemical including germicides.
Did I sneek in viniger ? yes my last couple of years I used it in summer cleaning . It cleaned well.
Oh by the way, my school district change the germicide comp[ound 3 times in my last 5 years.
Most likely because of price.
Hey we still had our share of stapt infections at my school after germiciide.
The district was always telling us to use less of the germicides. When we used less it cleaned worse.
Was it killing germs ? Colds were still common .
They would never tell us if a student had HIV
wE were issues cheap plastic disposable gloves and red plastic bags for all fluid clean ups.
i sometimes wonder if man would not have got so fancy with his artificial cleaners and stuck to things like vineger. Would we be much more healthier?
I guess we will never know.
Mr THrifty
My husband and I have a glass table for our patio, and living in Az it get's really dusty and dirty, and just is not good on glass, so I was fed up with the dull from the dust it leaves, so I filled up a little bottle of 3/4 vinegar-1/4 water or 1/2-1/2, and sprayed it till it was saturated, and I scrubbed it and scrubbed it, and did the bottom of it, and sprayed it off and now I can actually see through the glass! I'll have to remember that for next time!
I have a case of cider vinegar. Can I use that instead for cleaning?
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