TEMPO.CO, Jakarta – Content claiming that showering at particular hours could impact health conditions was shared by a Facebook account [archive] on January 22, 2026. The post warns against showering between 3:00 p.m. and 3:30 p.m., 6:00 p.m. and 7:00 p.m., and 9:00 p.m. and 12:00 a.m., claiming that doing so risks contracting chronic fatigue, wet lungs, heart damage, and rheumatism.
But is it true that showering at the aforementioned hours would negatively affect one’s health conditions?
FACT CHECK
Tempo‘s Fact Check team verified this claim by interviewing Mas Rizky Anggun Adipurna Syamsunarno, a lecturer at the Faculty of Medicine, Padjadjaran University, alongside…