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HealthyChanges2010

I'm not quite caught up on my reading on this but something came to mind I had read that really surprised me. The most germy place in the bathroom isn't the toilet seat, or the hand faucets, or the door knob (public bathrooms is more what this topic was referencing) but of all things the handle to flush the toilet!!

It was shared it wasn't neccesarily from a persons hand but from their feet. Wha?????/ Yea that's what I thought, but so many ppl flush by putting their foot up there instead of their hand (thinking it's germy so they don't want to touch it so use their shoe instead) it shared how walking all over the place, how much crap we pick up on our shoes. Also suggested always remove your shoes at your door and not wearing the same ones you wear outside in your home due to anything from lawn chemicals, to yadda x 3.

It just peaked my interest when I read it is all, because now adays they don't make toilet flush handles low to the ground like they used to in all the bathrooms when ppl actually DID use it as a foot flusher (? lol). So the concept of using your shoe nowadays to flush was hard to wrap my mind around.

Sorry if this was already shared: On the germie specials I've seen like 20/20 etc. they suggest the work place desk is by far the grossest germ wise. Ppl sit there, eat there, etc. the swab tests they dd were well GROSS. lol

questionablemethods

With the exception of public bathrooms, I am totally NOT a germ-a-phobe -- almost to the point of being too cavalier about the prospect of infections. I suppose I should work on that.

Ironically, the keyboard in front of you is probably more germ-infested than a regularly cleaned public bathroom.

Exactly. I'm not grossed out by the places/things that are ACTUALLY germ-covered. It is more just the idea of the public bathroom that grosses me out -- not the actual data.