Pooping has become synonymous to replying to pending chats or tagging friends on memes, if not talking on the phone. Mobile is our new everything, from contacts diary to photo albums and now, even our newspaper! The time when one would take a mag or daily papers to the loo is buried by the winds of time. But, can you even imagine how bad this habit is? Probably not!
When you take your mobile to the loo with you, you expose it to many germs and salmonella like bacteria. Various hygiene experts have expressed concern over the millennials carrying their tablets to the loo. They say that when you clean your buttocks with your hands while keeping your phone in a make shift arrangement and then hold the phone again, even washing your hands becomes worthless! This is because the bacteria had by then stuck to your mobile, which you hold again after washing your hands.
The level of contamination is more severe in public toilets, raising more concern for the working populace. When you use a toilet that is used by many others also, like in an office, restaurant or a hotel, you expose yourself to various kinds of bacteria.
Not just phone, things like your toothbrush and your towel can also become breeding sites for bacteria if they are kept near your toilet seat, say experts.
However, chances of bacteria breeding are higher on your mobile phone because its workings often get it heated and thus, provide a warm environment for the bacteria to survive and grow. The same phone is also used by you while having food. In the process, you may be providing the bacteria with conducive oils which stick to your hand after eating and stick to your phone through your hand.
So, instead of taking your phones to the loo, start taking the daily tabloids again. The newspapers and magazines are much more hygienic as you don’t reuse them and they are scrapped off in a day. Or, take nothing. Having a few minutes of nothingness in a day is worthwhile!
Totally agree that we should stop using our phones on the toilet, as intriguing the devices are! The levels of contamination are just to high, especially in an environment such as the toilet where bacteria is basically everywhere – floating through the air, on every surface you touch (that then later gets transmitted onto your phone) – and what’s worse is that it’s not just your own germs! It’s basically sharing a space of others’ germs and then smothering that all over your phone.
It’s funny, but yes perhaps we should turn back time and resort back to ink and paper – taking daily papers and fashion magazines into the toilet with us. Alternatively, we could also try to give our phones a weekly cleanse and wipe down to disinfect it from all the bacteria it accumulates over the past few days – and this may not just be from using it in the toilet, but also when we hold public hand rails which other strangers (who knows if they are sick) have held. Take a read of my post (https://breakfromyourcellblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/give-your-phone-a-cleanse/) and check out my blog to let me know what you think too! What are your thoughts on taking this digital cleanse for both our bodies and phones?
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Totally agree that we should stop using our phones on the toilet, as intriguing the devices are! The levels of contamination are just to high, especially in an environment such as the toilet where bacteria is basically everywhere – floating through the air, on every surface you touch (that then later gets transmitted onto your phone) – and what’s worse is that it’s not just your own germs! It’s basically sharing a space of others’ germs and then smothering that all over your phone.
It’s funny, but yes perhaps we should turn back time and resort back to ink and paper – taking daily papers and fashion magazines into the toilet with us. Alternatively, we could also try to give our phones a weekly cleanse and wipe down to disinfect it from all the bacteria it accumulates over the past few days – and this may not just be from using it in the toilet, but also when we hold public hand rails which other strangers (who knows if they are sick) have held. Take a read of my post (https://breakfromyourcellblog.wordpress.com/2017/10/01/give-your-phone-a-cleanse/) and check out my blog to let me know what you think too! What are your thoughts on taking this digital cleanse for both our bodies and phones?
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