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Flushing toilets may spread bacteria in hospitals
Helio ^ | 02/13/2020 | Geneva M. Wilson

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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Yes, folks, this is something else brought to you by environmentalists. Low water use toilets work by producing a violent flush that sends bacteria and other "yuck" through the air. Could this be part of the reason in the increase in deadly infections in hospitals?

Everything environmentalists do has causes problems. They are a menace to our health and way of life, and now the spineless Republicans are joining in the carbon reduction scam. Heaven help us.

1 posted on 02/14/2020 4:09:14 PM PST by Pining_4_TX
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To: Pining_4_TX

Put the damn seats down. Flush and run.


2 posted on 02/14/2020 4:11:03 PM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Vermont Lt

They usually don’t have seats in hospitals or public restrooms, for that matter. How fast does one have to run to escape a germ plume? :-)


3 posted on 02/14/2020 4:13:09 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: Pining_4_TX
They need Fergusons.



"BA-WOOOOOSH! Now that's a man's flush, Bud!"
4 posted on 02/14/2020 4:13:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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If the doctors and nurses and staff don’t kill ya, the toilets will!


5 posted on 02/14/2020 4:13:55 PM PST by Dogbert41 (Blessed is He who comes in the Name of the Lord!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

This is a real thing. Try putting a piece of rice paper or tissue paper over your toilet and flushing it. Yup, all that stuff goes right into the air and through your HVAC.


6 posted on 02/14/2020 4:15:50 PM PST by DouglasKC
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Then there are the air blowers that blast the bugs aerosolized by toilet bowl flushes onto your hands. That’s why I no longer use air blowers.

https://www.livescience.com/62257-bathroom-air-dryer-bacteria.html


7 posted on 02/14/2020 4:16:38 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

May. Might. Could. Possibly.

Environmental “science” at its finest.


8 posted on 02/14/2020 4:17:05 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Want to to bet that not flushing them is worse?


9 posted on 02/14/2020 4:17:30 PM PST by GingisK
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To: Pining_4_TX

[Everything environmentalists do has causes problems. They are a menace to our health and way of life, and now the spineless Republicans are joining in the carbon reduction scam. Heaven help us. ]


Dead people have a lower carbon footprint.


10 posted on 02/14/2020 4:18:04 PM PST by Zhang Fei (My dad had a Delta 88. That was a car. It was like driving your living room.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

They have seats; but usually not lids.


11 posted on 02/14/2020 4:18:11 PM PST by Carriage Hill (A society grows great when old men plant trees, in whose shade they know they will never sit.)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Well, yeah. Poo Cloud.


12 posted on 02/14/2020 4:19:04 PM PST by BusterDog
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To: Vermont Lt

Put the damn seats down. Flush and run.

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That’s exactly what I do ... seat down, flush & get the heck out of the bathroom.


13 posted on 02/14/2020 4:19:11 PM PST by Qiviut (President Trump: defies political gravity - MAGA! Nasty Nan is a walking obscenity.)
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To: Vermont Lt

Some don’t have lids.


14 posted on 02/14/2020 4:20:17 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear ("Progressives" (elitist communists) "Love you to death".)
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To: carriage_hill

Oops, chalk it up to my OBS (Old Brain Syndrome) I meant lids.


15 posted on 02/14/2020 4:22:02 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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brought to you by environmentalists. Low water use toilets work by producing a violent flush that sends bacteria and other "yuck" through the air. Could this be part of the reason in the increase in deadly infections in hospitals?

This is bad. I wondered about that at the time our apt. complex owner forced all the hundreds of renters to change toilets. Saving the planet (and their water money).

Greta, you little deviant. How dare you!

16 posted on 02/14/2020 4:22:20 PM PST by frank ballenger (End vote harvesting,non-citizen voting & leftist media news censorship or we are finished.)
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Yuck!


17 posted on 02/14/2020 4:22:35 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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To: Pining_4_TX

Some of those toilets at the airport sound like rocket ships blasting off into the clouds. You can feel the floor shaking from all that force. Very likely there would be a Germ Cloud produced from all that ‘propulsion’.


18 posted on 02/14/2020 4:23:48 PM PST by lee martell
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My mother-in-law still has full-flush toilets in her house, and they flush slowly without any upward splash. I wish Trump would bring back the old kind.


19 posted on 02/14/2020 4:24:28 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ("Every election is a sort of advance auction sale of stolen goods." ~ H.L. Mencken)
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“Flushing toilets may spread bacteria in hospitals”

FAKE NEWS! They don’t make toilets in Flushing, or anywhere else in NY City. Most are made in Mexico these days (and probably some in China, with our luck).


20 posted on 02/14/2020 4:25:42 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
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