Flushing the Toilet Without Shut it down Spread Bacteria

Flushing Toilet

Modern toilet design is generally shaped toilet seat with cover. When using it, most people just close it when finished. In fact. number of bacteria-prone distributed if the cover is not closed when the toilet flush dirt.

Professor Mark Wilcox, Clinical Director of Microbiology at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, said, opening the cover allows some bacteria to spread into the air and settled on the surface nearby. This increases the risk of infectious diarrhea germs to others.

"It is quite clear that the cover is there for a reason," said Professor Wilcox to Country Mail Online, Tuesday (3/1).

Professor Wilcox and colleagues from Leeds University conducted a study to see how to use the toilet lid could affect the spread of disease, particularly in hospitals. They used a sterilized toilet cubicle and created a 'diarrhea effect' in the bowl using stool samples that have been infected from hospital superbugs C. difficile. The bacteria is one of the bacteria in human feces that can trigger diarrhea.

They found C diff carried to a height of 10 inches or 25 centimeters when the toilet seat is open and still be detected in the air until 90 minutes later.

When the lid is closed, no C. difficile were found on any surface, but when it opens the bacteria found in the water tank, on the right side and the left side of the toilet seat and on the floor.

"We then give vegetable dye in the bowl water, lift, and put a plastic cap on top of the toilet seat. Once we flush the toilet, we sprayed it in large quantities. By placing the film on the filter paper, and we found that the toilet can deploy up to 50 points ( bacteria) per flush, "said Professor Wilcox.

The professor said that let the lid open will be a danger to health. From their findings suggest that although the patient may at least have a special toilet.

He added that their research also has wider implications. "It would be prudent to shut it down after flushing." Our advice, put the lid if it exists, and wash your hands afterwards. "