Thursday, March 1, 2007
Whatever’s going down the toilet will end up plastering your personal hygiene items, including toothbrushes, toilet paper and contact lens cases that are near the toilet.
Chuck Gerba, a professor of environmental microbiology at the University of Arizona, conducted an experiment in the mid-1970s that examined the aerosols created from toilet flushing. He found that the floors and sinks near the toilet were covered with water droplets that continued to fall from the air up to four hours after flushing.
“You’re brushing your teeth with whatever you just flushed down the toilet,” he says.
Diseases such as Hepatitis A and bacterial dysentery can develop from these water germs, Gerba says. He recommends religious hand washing and bathroom disinfecting at least once a week to keep illness-causing germs at bay.
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