I’ve a patient in the hospital, urinated only, flushed the toilet, and seen bits of feces - not mine - wash back into the toilet. I’ve felt the mist from that powerful jet. Of course the toilet had no lid to shut during flushing.
Flushing technique for an agile patient - extend leg, flush with foot, run.
And hospital administration wonders why C-diff spreads.
I don’t work in a hospital now, but when I was in nursing school, I had to empty bedpans. There is a spray arm on the toilets that pulls down to rinse out the bedpans. Powerful spray, and you can’t control the strength. So you get a scoured-out bedpan, yay, but you also get a mist on the nurse’s, or aide’s, skin and clothing.
Admin wonders why C-diff spreads.
Toilets and sewage treatment have saved millions of lives. Badly-designed toilets may have killed thousands.
Many individuals may be unaware of the risk of air-borne dissemination of microbes when flushing the toilet and the consequent surface contamination that may spread infection within the household, via direct surface-to-hand-to mouth contact. Some enteric viruses could persist in the air after toilet flushing and infection may be acquired after inhalation and swallowing.