Stop worrying much when using a public toilet without toilet paper covering it. All you have to is to wash your hand after using the toilet. Perhaps, public bathrooms can be a haven for most bacteria since a lot of people are using it.
However, many experts agree to one thing: public bathrooms are not the dirtiest place on earth. According to assistant professor William DePaolo of immunology and microbiology at the University of Southern California (USC), sitting on a toilet cannot lead to infection and even the bacteria found in the toilet’s surfaces are not transmitted easily in your skin. He added that many of these bathroom bacteria successfully live in moist areas such as mucous membranes. Now, in case you sit on a toilet without covering it with toilet paper and you failed to do hand washing, then you are at risk of transmitting those bacteria that you are afraid of. Nonetheless, you should know that the skin serves as a protective layer against microbes.
Well, the truth is other things that can be found in the bathroom such as toilet paper roll is much filthier than the toilet itself getting more bacteria. For example, the dishwashing sponge can be a place of 200,000 times more bacteria in comparison to an average toilet seat. Other household things that have more bacteria are video game controllers, smartphones, and kitchen sinks. Don’t ignore your purses which of course taken in almost everywhere, dropped on the dirty ground to subway seat. So, are you so scared of toilet seats? Well, you should be shivering if you find out that your office desk is much filthier with some 16 million microbes just on your keyboard.
Nevertheless, you can still cover the toilets with toilet papers but always be reminded that washing your hands carefully using anti-microbial soap plus an alcohol could do a better job.
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