5 Things With More Bacteria Than Your Toilet
Your bathroom, kitchen and living room are probably the biggest areas that you target when cleaning your home. Of course, you make sure to scrub the toilet and wash the dishes. But what if you are not cleaning some of the dirtiest things around your home? Read on to find out about what carries the most bacteria.
Here are five things that you may use every day that carry more bacteria than your toilet –
Your Cell Phone
It is hard to imagine a person that doesn’t use their cell phones for the majority of the day. But how many times do you actually clean your cell phone? London researchers have found that there is a 16 percent chance your cell phone has fecal matter on it. They have also found that nine in ten cell phones carry some kind of disease-causing germ, like influenza or MRSA. You probably take your cell phone with you wherever you go – to your office, on the bus, on the train and even to the bathroom. A professor of microbiology at the University of Arizona, Charles Gerba, suggests for cell phone users to start wiping cell phones with disinfectant wipes at least once a week for a decreased chance of exposure to germs and bacteria.
Your “Clean” Laundry
According to Gerba, fecal matter can stay on your underwear, whether visible or not. When you throw your clothes into the laundry, you transfer about 500 million E. coli bacteria into the machine, according to Fox News. And, because water settles at the bottom of many front-washing machines, it becomes a breeding ground for germs. To make sure your clothes come out of the washing machine clean, it is a good idea to sanitize the machine by doing your whites first. The bleach you use when cleaning your white clothes kills much of the bacteria from previous loads. It may also be a great idea to wash all of your undergarments in one load and to use hot water. To clean your washing machine, run an empty cycle with bleach once a month to keep it free of bacteria.
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Your Toothbrush
Philip Tierno Jr., director of microbiology and immunology at NYU’s Langone Medical Center explains, “When you flush your toilet, it can spray aerosolized droplets over 20 feet. So if you leave your toothbrush out on the bathroom sink, it could be showered with tiny drops of whatever you just flushed.” ays of keeping the brush clean, as well as preventing the bacteria from getting onto it. Accorighter and that means you’re going to be heading outside if you haven’t already. You’ve probably cleaned your toilet more recently than you’ve cleaned your grill. However, your grill is what you put your food on, and your toilet… well, you know what you put on that. According to a 2013 British Study, the average grill has 1.7 million microbes of bactere,ia per square inch – more than twice as much bacteria as the average toilet. To rid your grill of all of that bacteria, scrub the grates with soap and a tough scrubbing pad, scrape out any charred bits from the bottom of the grill, clean out the gook in the burners, and be sure to clean the exterior of the grill too (Fox News).
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Your Kitchen Sponge
When you clean your dishes, the last thing you are probably thinking about cleaning is the sponge you are holding. Besides throwing out your old sponge when it stats falling apart, you most likely don’t think about your sponge too much. However, according to a Simmons College study, there is a one in three chance your kitchen sponge has staph – twice the contamination rate of your toilet. And, to add to that surprising study, another study done by the University of Arizona found that your kitchen sponge could be harboring 10 million bacteria per square inch – 200,000 times dirtier than your toilet. To kill germs, if you do not have a new un-used sponge on-hand, microwave your wet sponge for about a minute in the microwave. This will kill the bacteria it’s harboring with heat (Fox News).
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After reading this article, what are some steps you will use to make sure your home is as clean as possible? Which of these five things around your home were the most surprising to read about?
