If I only drink water out of a water bottle, should I wash it?

Pearl

Pearl

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I drink water out of the same bottle at work everyday. I always just refill it. Can I get sick from this? If it's only water in the bottle, how bad can it get?
 
your mouth will contaminate it. But the chlorine in the water should really take care of that. You should wash it on Fridays or something.
 
plastic bottle, like a poland spring bottle?

I have switched to a glass bottle at work since glass actually feels clean when you wash it. I was on stainless for awhile but the metal reacts with the 1,000 fillings I have an it always seemed like a metal taste.
 
photo of said bottle for reference
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wouldnt the inside of the bottle be clean forever? wouldnt the water just evaporate over the weekend?
 
if water sits out it stagnates and grows bacteria. tap water has trace chlorine in it to prevent this. But it doesn't last long.
 
i have a nalgene bottle at my desk, i leave the top off of it, if i close it up, then i can smell the rim getting nasty, if it dries out its fine. ive been doing this for a number of years and ive never had a health issue.

however i spend my weekends in a van...so take that advice with a grain of salt
 
The chlorine that townships add to drinking water will dissipate over time. Almost all town water will have chlorine added and many add ammonia in the summer as well. I know chlorine will dissipate within 48 hours. After that stuff grows. That being said I don't wash mine more then one a week. Your mileage may vary.
 
You may want to make sure you wash off all the HP Laserjet toner dust off of it each day since you sit at the ass / exhaust side of the printer.
 
Never wash it and start a blog about it
 
Yeah unless you are squirting the water into your mouth and never touching your lips/mouth/tongue with the spout you'll contaminate with mouth bacteria. And work drinking water - at least here - we have cooler/dispensors that filter out all the crap in tap water, including chlorine, so that isn't going to help. Wash at least once a week
 
I guess you are assuming your co-workers don't tea-bag it Monday through Thursday while you are at QC?
 
I rarely wash my water bottles. They get used everyday for work and refilled after work for cycling. At the end of the day when I am done with them I rest them on the window sill upside down next to my kitchen sink to dry.

My thought on this is that my gut builds up its own bacteria to fight any bacteria that exists in those water bottles.

As a rule I don't share another mans water bottle, its just wrong on so many levels.
 
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