Posted on 02/14/2020 4:09:14 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
Bioaerosols produced by toilet flushing may help spread bacteria like Clostridioides difficile in hospitals, according to a pilot study conducted in the rooms of patients with C. difficile infection.
“C. difficile can encapsulate itself into spores that are highly compact and resistant to penetration,” Geneva M. Wilson PhD, MPH, a researcher at the University of Iowa College of Public Health, told Healio. “These spores allow C. difficile to persist in the environment for extended periods of time, meaning they can survive in a toilet bowl and are small enough to be projected from the toilet bowl via [a] plume that results from flushing.”
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Save water ... flush a life
I agree, and this isn’t the first study to show that there is a plume of germs that come out of these toilets. Most people keep their toothbrushes in too close proximity to the toilet.
.... Try not to think about it.
Ha, ha, supposedly one can still get full-flush toilets in Canada, although that may have changed. I wanted one of our son to be a toilet smuggler when he grew up, but sad to say, he is a research scientist instead. ;-)
Bingo!
Gives new meaning to DON’T FLUSH
“Yellow matter custard, dripping from a dead dog’s eye.”
“I wanted one of our son to be a toilet smuggler when he grew up, but sad to say, he is a research scientist instead.”
Sorry about that. Win some, lose some, I guess.
A word of wisdom from ignorance (me) ..... the internet is here to scare you ... algore invented the internet according to algore ..... Are you scared yet ?
I contracted CDiff six years ago via community, not anti-biotic. As I learned more, I knew exactly where I contracted it, which was in a public restroom in a grocery store. I should have turned around and ran out. Fortunately, I was lucky, as I only needed two courses (thirty days) of the most disgusting medication I have ever had in my life, (flagyl). In fact, the side effects from the meds were worse than the cDiff.
As a tip and I am not kidding, if one ever goes into a restroom and the odor is like dead animals, don’t touch a thing, leave and, don’t even touch the sink.....just get out and pee your pants while you are running An ungodly odor is the hallmark of CDiff.
nope, 99.9% is BS
I scared .... LOL
The Beatles - I’m The Walrus (Backwards)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZSKvBNDXRo
I love the Cello used in that song.
It was either a real Cello, or Mellotron synthesizer.
The best way to combat the problem is a ventilation system that draws droplets down and away from a bathroom.
To my observation, the opposite would tend to be the problem. I went to a basketball game last night and the restroom had 5 urinals. At least 4 needed to be flushed when I came in and I flushed them. I don’t know about the 5th one because my cousin used it, but it’s gross not to flush the toilet.
My rule: ALWAYS flush the toilet; ALWAYS wash your hands.
No this osn’t them.
There are low flush models that flush like an older toilet and work fine.
Not all pressure assisted toilets are econut creations, most have been around forever. Your urinals and average non-tank commercial toilets have alwats had pressure assist to them.
They are also using pressure washers on the poop laden streets generated by the homeless. The germs in the over-spray must be sickening.
While using an urinal, I noticed water all over the floor. The urinal flushed with a photosensor detecting its use. As I walked away, water mixed with my urine sloshed all over the floor. I wonder how much it was tracked all around the food market.
Myth Busters did a segment on this — about the “cloud” of droplets when a toilet is flushed. They go far and wide, stay airborne for a long time, and land on glasses, toothbrushes, etc., even when the commode is in a separate little room with a door.
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