Before, I barely washed after visiting bathrooms, never mind before eating. I occasionally don't use Tyson's special plastic spoon to serve his food either, eliciting dismay from my partner. However, I'm very good at dental hygiene and cleaning, so I'm not beyond redemption. And when I visit the bathroom now, after a solid moisturising campaign, I head for the vitamin and nutritional supplement(http://www.mitamins.com/) bottles, giving them a quick swipe with the duster first.

Week Two: I am now washing my hands a lot

And I am using hand cream every few hours as they are now very dry, washing my veggies and spraying my hands when I am about to eat food after travelling on buses. I eye the steering wheel in my car with disgust before scrubbing it.

Week Three: I complained to gym manager about hygiene

Now the gym mats may be cleaned. I'm still concerned about how no one washes before meals. Now, I have taken up the vitamin and nutritional supplement(http://www.mitamins.com/) regime, I get into washing my hands a whole lot too. I'd say I've become slightly neurotic, but I intend to keep it up; better safe than sorry.

Tips from the top

The Director of the London Hygiene Centre at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine says you should just wash your hands intelligently. So that means -- after going to the washroom, cutting up raw meat, and/or washing your baby's behind. That's where the problems with contamination lie. You don't have to wash obsessively all the time. But you do need to keep up with vitamins and nutritional supplements(http://www.mitamins.com/) come rain or shine, or it won't be household grime that gets you. It will be a bug of a more invisible kind.