Source: https://www.initial.com/au/how-you-catch-diseases-through-air/
“Influenza: The flu virus may also be spread through the air by toilet flushing. A recent study conducted in healthcare facilities, day care centres, and aircraft found influenza A virus in aerosols of the size that can enter lungs. In the early stages of infection with the H1N1 strain of flu virus, symptoms include diarrhoea and vomiting, which means the virus may be spread by toilet flushing.”
Common Sense Answer :
Influenza OR The Common Cold OR CORONAVIRUSES!
Isn’t it time we Used COMMON SENSE to Deal with the COMMON COLD transmission?
“Researchers around the world have been studying whether wastewater testing can effectively catch cases early to prevent covid-19 clusters. There are programs in Singapore, China, Spain, Canada and New Zealand, while in the United States, more than 170 wastewater facilities across 37 states are being tested”.
Common Sense Answer :
Think the SARS-CoV-2 Virus can be traced in sewage after many, many kms of pipe… think how much we are shedding into a Toilet that is spraying around our bathrooms each flush.
Freshly Replicated Virus from the Anus.
Undiluted by gallons of water. Chemicals and other waste byproducts.
“Our team is working to improve the reliability with proximity and automatic technology, targeting our auto open/close toilet seats, auto flush technology for toilets and urinals and even auto handwashing faucets,” comments James Walsh, a vice president with Lixil Group , corporate parent of American Standard and DXV.”
Common Sense Answer :
Ooooohhh Oooooooohhhhh, Over Here! Over Here!.
Pick us…. Unless of course… you were full of…. you know what 🙂
The Toothbrush Shield
Source: https://www.dentalbuzz.com/2019/09/04/what-is-this-stuff-on-my-toothbrush/
“As a dental hygienist, at times I’ve been merely satisfied with knowing my patients are using a toothbrush, but lately I’ve decided to acknowledge that they can be vectors for pathogens to invade our bodies if not managed properly. What’s excessive though, is how there are all these UV blue-light sanitizers on the market and other expensive gadgets you really don’t need to keep your toothbrush healthy. Along that path, I discovered the one thing that actually makes a lot of sense.”
Common Sense Answer :
Toothbrush Shield… Please meet the Common Sense ‘Whole Bathroom Shield!!!’
“This increase in viral RNA load is indicative of an increase in … infections in Saskatoon, which – in a partially vaccinated population – may or may not be reflected by an increase in case numbers in upcoming weeks,” University of Saskatchewan researchers said
Common Sense Answer :
The Freshest Place the Virus can come from is Replicated in our Rectum/Anus. As Symptomatic and A Symptomatic shedders spray this disease into toilet bowls with diarrhea. If we can track it after many kms of pipe… what is happening in a toilet flush. Ooooooo Ooooooo we know the answer!
Q. How should Covid GI be dealt with?
“A. Infected patients should use a separate toilet. Family members must strictly avoid this toilet. Sanitize the toilet seat after each use”
Common Sense Answer :
This is Common knowledge in Asia with China putting Disinfecting Tabs in Toilets to prevent Toilet Plume and making Pilots and Flight attendants wear diapers
“It is an established fact that COVID-19 infection spreads through the aerosols generated by the cough and sneeze of an infected person. Several measures have been implemented, including the mandatory wearing of masks and social distancing, in order to prevent the virus from spreading. However, some studies have shown that wastewater can also be one of the modes of transmission of SARS-CoV-2 virus in a community where the source of infection is unknown”
Common Sense Answer :
India like China accept and make it news worthy to spread awareness around this mode of Transmission of Toilet Ttransmission. You want this Pandemic to stop in North America? Start Talking Toilet!
“Researchers have long known that warm air hand Dryers can launch bacteria into the air- compared to dabbing with paper towels, which unleashes virtually none. But new jet air Dryers made by Dyson, are significantly more problematic- they launch more viruses into the air, which linger for longer periods of time and reach much farther distances… researchers recently reported in the Journal of Applied Microbiology.”
Common Sense Answer :
“ITS NOT DYSONS FAULT!
I REPEAT ITS NOT DYSONS FAULT!
Dyson makes a great product, but everyone has been worried about the smoke (Toilet Plume). But nobody stopped to think about the fire…. That Poop blender you call a Toilet.
June 2021 USA TODAY
“Michael Hurtado spent the past year of the pandemic flushing toilets. Once a week. Hundreds of toilets. Thousands of times…Every week, we go through the entire property and flush every toilet, run every hand sink, turn on every shower”.
“The one that keeps safety experts up at night is Legionella pneumophila, the bacteria that causes 95% of Legionnaires’ disease cases. It kills at least 1,000 Americans a year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
“It’s almost certain that we’re going to be at risk for more Legionnaires’ disease cases after the shutdown,” said Michele Swanson, a professor of microbiology at the University of Michigan and an expert on Legionella”.
Common Sense Answer :
Yes, just recently they have linked Legionella Transmission in Toilet Plume. Gee I hope that the Hotels and Casinos in Vegas will have Magnetically Sealing Toilet Seats the next time you visit Las Vegas… Or be faced with breathing in Plume from ALL OVER THE WORLD.
April 2021 Phys.Org Florida Atlantic University
Source: https://phys.org/news/2021-04-flushing-toilet-dont-linger-aerosolized.html
“Results of the study, published in the journal Physics of Fluids, demonstrate how public restrooms could serve as hotbeds for airborne disease transmission, especially if they do not have adequate ventilation or if toilets do not have a lid or cover. Most public restrooms in the United States often are not equipped with toilet seat lids and urinals are not covered”.
“Both the toilet and urinal generated large quantities of droplets smaller than 3 micrometers in size, posing a significant transmission risk if they contain infectious microorganisms. Due to their small size, these droplets can remain suspended for a long time.”
“ The droplets were detected at heights of up to 5 feet for 20 seconds or longer after initiating the flush. Researchers detected a smaller number of droplets in the air when the toilet was flushed with a closed lid, although not by much, suggesting that aerosolized droplets escaped through small gaps between the cover and the seat”.
Common Sense Answer :
This is very recent science showing LID UP or LID DOWN you really aren’t doing anything unless you seal your Toilet Shut to prevent those flush particles from escaping for that 20 seconds.
April 2021 CTV Saskatoon Sewage Tracing
Source: https://saskatoon.ctvnews.ca/mobile/saskatoon-lab-predicted-variant-spike-in-sewage-study-1.5387967
“Once someone is infected they start shedding the virus in their waste immediately, but they might not feel ill for five or six days,”
Common Sense Answer :
So Basically “Super Spreader Events” May be caused by “Well Choreographed TiK ToK Dances in Bathrooms”. Cooooooooooooooooooool.
March 2021 Forbes “Disinfecting Toilet Plume”
“Dissolve the tablets in water in the bucket, then dump the mixture into the toilet before you flush.”
Common Sense Answer :
Why do this if it’s just going right into the sewer?
Oh, wait, yeah. I forgot… TOILET PLUME!!!
Feb 2021 Yahoo Sewage Tracing U of Saskatchewan
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/ca.news.yahoo.com/amphtml/sask-covid-19-sewage-study-215908940.html
“People who are infected shed virus traces through their feces, typically before they start presenting COVID-19 symptoms”.
Common Sense Answer :
If we can trace it down Kilometers of Sewage Pipe… what’s it like coming out “Fresh” in the moment our Bathrooms?
Feb 2021 Salon
“A separate study of air samples in two hospitals in Wuhan, China, found that the aerosols were “higher in the toilet areas used by the patients” than in ventilated patient rooms.”
Common Sense Answer :
Bio Aerosols (Toilet Plume)… were deemed higher in Bathrooms than in ventilated patient rooms. The whole reason we wear masks is for Aerosols… Moist Air. Hmmmmmm?
February 2021 New Zealand Herald
“It recommended an investigation of bathroom exhaust fans because airborne virus particles can be generated by bowel movements of infected people”.
Common Sense Answer :
How many Billions of Dollars should we spend ventilating Bathrooms, when we could just Magnetically seal the problem with a Common Sense Toilet Lid.
Jan 13th, 2021 Fee.Org Foundation For Economic Education
“Teachers Union Demands Lids on All Toilets- Through No COVID Cases Traced to Toilets”
Common Sense Answer :
Hope they buy the Worlds 1st & Only Magnetic Sealing One that fills the Horse Shoe, U-Shaped, Gap in the seat one….?
Dec 2020 RT News
Source: https://www.rt.com/news/509289-china-airlines-flight-attendants-diapers/
“Flight attendants should wear disposable diapers while in the air to avoid having to use pathogen-riddled airplane toilets”
Common Sense Answer :
Wait a minute? I thought transmission was only Probable… Well, I guess Huggies is Cashing in!
Nov 2020 The Sun UK
Source: https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/13085631/gross-images-germs-toilet-danger-flushing/amp/
“DISGUSTING images showing germs flying out of toilet show the dangers of not closing the lid before flushing. One flush of the toilet produces thousands of tiny aerosol droplets, which can contain bacteria and viruses and contaminate surfaces up to six feet away”.
“But research has revealed 55 per cent of UK adults don’t close the lid when flushing the toilet – despite almost three quarters – 72 per cent – saying they are more hygiene aware than ever before”.
“What looks like fireworks going off is actually aerosol droplets being catapulted out of the toilet pan, which in a different setting could be flying onto surfaces and even into the faces of those in the bathroom”.
“We hope our new #CloseTheLid campaign helps inspire people to make simple changes to their cleaning routine that can have long-lasting benefits to the health of the nation.”
Some of the particles produced by a flushing toilet are capable of reaching the lower respiratory tract, which can lead to infection.
If a person touches a surface contaminated by the toilet bowl flush, they can then become infected when they touch the nose or mouth”.
Common Sense Answer :
As this article is appealing for is to have everyone close the lid, but you can even see the gap underneath the seat in some of the photos. Not sealing the toilet is unfortunately futile…
We put the lid down on our Kitchen Garbage can to stop disgusting things and smells from seeping out… So why not seal in the germs on that Bathroom Blender firing out Poop- Vomit- Urine and Menstrual Fluid plus all the Bacteria, Germs and Viruses that they carry?
Oct 4th, 2020 Chemical & Engineering News
Source: https://cen.acs.org/biological-chemistry/infectious-disease/COVID-19-bathroom/98/i38
“Since 2003, Li has worked with health professionals to investigate various outbreaks of infectious disease, including the 2002–3 severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) outbreak. Back then, over 300 people became infected with SARS in an apartment complex in Hong Kong known as Amoy Gardens. Li and colleagues thought that fecal aerosols from a broken sewage pipe could have caused the outbreak (N. Engl. J. Med. 2004, DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa032867)”.
“Fast-forward to February 2020, and Li was working with the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention to investigate the origin of some cases of COVID-19 in Guangzhou, China. Nine people living in three apartments in a high-rise building had COVID-19. While one family had recently returned from Wuhan, then the epicenter of the pandemic, the other families had not. Contact tracing couldn’t explain how the other families got infected. But while all the sick families lived on different floors, their apartment numbers all ended in 02, meaning they lived in apartments above one another, and they all shared the same sewage pipe system”.
Common Sense Answer :
SARS is a Corona Virus Like Covid-19 and they linked SARS in 2003 in Hong Kong to Fecal Oral Transmission from Sewage Pipes. It’s no real shocker that you CAN CATCH COVID-19 from Toilet Plume. Think about it, the virus doesn’t get stronger in sewage as it dilutes in water and chemicals. It’s going to be it’s strongest and most virulent leaving a host body, therefore why Toilet Plume is of so much concern going forward… And that goes for all disease carried by Toilet Plume.
Sept 2020 Infectious Disease Advisor
Common Sense Answer :
It took 6 months but we went from “Low” to “Probable” even though we shed it through our Feces.
Sept 2020 Nature Tracking Covid in our Sewage
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41587-020-0690-1
“This was not entirely surprising since, during the SARS coronavirus epidemic of 2003, SARS-CoV-1 RNA was found in human feces and in hospital wastewater”
Common Sense Answer :
SARS- CoV- 1 is a Corona Virus.
SARS- CoV- 2 (Covid- 19) is a Corona Virus.
They both Faecal Orally Transmit.
They knew this fact back in 2003.
Any Questions.
Sept 2020 Washington Post
“Let’s be clear,” said Allen. “When you flush the toilet, you’re breathing in toilet water, and whatever is in that toilet water—including viruses and bacteria.” These “bioaerosols” can also spread around the room, linger in the air, and settle onto surfaces in the bathroom, creating the potential for transmission.”
Common Sense Answer :
“We wear Masks and Socially Distance because of Bio-Aerosols… So if we know our “Moist Breath” can make people sick. What about “Moist Urine & Poop Air?”
August 2020 Online Library Wiley
Source: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/apt.16036
“Patients tested positive for SARS‐CoV‐2 in stool samples or anal swabs, with positive test results up to 70 days after symptom onset…Viral shedding of SARS‐CoV‐2 in stool samples occurs in a substantial proportion of patients, making fecal-oral transmission plausible”.
Common Sense Answer :
Plausible? I mean…
I’m no southern lawyer, But I do declare if someone is dropping a virus for 70 days and it’s not slightly Infectious… well I’ll be a monkey Poop throwing uncle!
August 2020 Health.com
Source: https://www.health.com/condition/infectious-diseases/coronavirus-fecal-transmission?amp=true
“SARS-CoV-2 were detected on the sink, faucet, and shower handle of a long-vacant 16th-floor apartment right above a bathroom used by five people with confirmed COVID-19”.
Common Sense Answer :
Toilet Plume. Toilet Plume. Toilet Plume. Toilet Plume. Toilet Plume. Toilet Plume.
Oh and Finally… Toilet Plume.
July 2020 World Health Organization
“One study found viable SARS-CoV-2 in the urine of patients. (51)Three studies have cultured SARS-CoV-2 from stool specimens.”
Common Sense Answer :
EUREKA! Viable Virus Found. Imagine how we start shedding the Covid-19 DAY 1 on contracting it… With NO Immunity, isn’t it quite possible to spread VIABLE virus right away?!?!?
June 2020 Rolling Stone
“These poop clouds weren’t discovered in 2020. In fact, we’ve known about them — and their potential to spread infectious diseases — since at least 1906”.
Common Sense Answer :
Admit it! You were ‘Today-Years-Old’ when you found about Toilet Plume.
June 2020 London “Social-Pisstancing” on Poynter
“Every time a toilet is flushed, it ejects millions of tiny water droplets, which travel up to 10 feet and land on surfaces,” says Swisher. “Researchers have found that the new coronavirus, SARS-CoV-2, can be shed in the fecal matter for up to a month after the illness.”
Common Sense Answer :
Millions of Tiny Water Droplets?
Lands on Everything?
Who wants to play Infectious Disease Russian Roulette?
Anyone? Anyone?
June 2020 Healthing.ca
“All that being said, concerns about viral spread through toilet flushing aren’t new, with noroviruses having been found in the stool or vomit of infected people”
Common Sense Answer :
Who knew you could get sick with Norovirus from Flushing a Toilet on their Bingo Card? Anyone?
June 2020 The Conversation
“A study on hospital bathrooms found that the amount of those (virus) particles spiked after a toilet was flushed, and the concentration in the air remained high 30 minutes later. It didn’t matter if the test was done right next to the toilet or 3 feet away”
Common Sense Answer :
We go to hospitals to get over sickness…
ALL HOSPITALS HAVE NO TOILET LIDS WORLDWIDE!
Live Science June 2020
“We May Have to Rethink the Toilet Seat Altogether How the Coronavirus could change Bathrooms for the better”
“It seems important to educate patients to close the toilet lid before flushing, particularly immunosuppressed patients”
“Two patients at a hospital in France likely contracted the disease through inhaling contaminated toilet water that was aerosolized during flushing”
“The report, published Wednesday (June 10) in the journal Emerging Infectious Diseases, describes the cases of two patients at a hospital in France who likely contracted Legionnaires’ disease through inhaling contaminated toilet water that was aerosolized during flushing. The patients stayed in the same hospital room but five months apart”.
Common Sense Answer :
“Science has ALSO found Salmonella alive in a Toilet 50 days after seeding it there”. These Poop Blenders are NOT our friends…
I REPEAT.
THESE POOP BLENDERS ARE NOT OUR FRIENDS!
May 2020 Fastcompany.com
“We May Have to Rethink the Toilet Seat Altogether How the Coronavirus could change Bathrooms for the better”
“Consider that the vast majority of commercial bathrooms in the U.S. don’t even include lids on toilets—meaning that every time someone flushes, a “toilet plume” of droplets explodes into the air, coating the surrounding stall (and the person standing in it) and aerosolizing the bowl’s contents, which can be breathed in and ingested by nearby parties (gross)”.
Common Sense Answer :
Nothing to Rethink Except Buying a Magnetically Sealing Seat From the Common Sense Toilet Seat Co.
May 2020 USA Today
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.usatoday.com/amp/5198015002
“The University of Oklahoma and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, as well as one published earlier this year by the City University of Hong Kong — have found that fecal matter, along with various pathogens and water particles, can blast through the air and on surfaces after flushing the toilet without the lid on”.
Common Sense Answer :
Centers For Disease Control knows about this, Yet we feel you are learning this fact on this right now…
April 2020 Nature
Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2271-3
“Which found positive test results of wipe samples from room surfaces of toilets used by patients infected with SARS-CoV-2”
Common Sense Answer :
Okay, Positive Test Results for Covid-19. Now we are getting somewhere.
April 2020 Forbes
“Because of a phenomenon is known as toilet plume, stool or urine can escape from the toilet into the air and spread disease, according to the Association for Professionals in Infection Control and Epidemiology…80% of particles that escape from fecal matter into the air can be prevented by closing the lid when flushing, Chen told Forbes”.
Common Sense Answer :
The Remaining 20% comes out from the unsealed portion under your toilet seat of course.
April 2020 WellandGood.com
Source: Https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wellandgood.com/toilet-plumes/amp/
“Scientists have known that flush toilets produce bioaerosols since 1955… Flushing with the seat up leads to “toilet plumes,” aerosolization of everything (and I mean everything) in your toilet, explains microbiologist and author of The Germ Files Jason Tetro.
“Plumes are the SAME as droplets that you cough and sneeze out,” says Tetro”.
“When it comes to viruses, it’s a different story. Norovirus is the most likely candidate for this spread but SARS (CORONA VIRUS) may have also spread this way (Toilet Plume).”
Common Sense Answer :
Did you see that? Plumes are the SAME droplets you COUGH and SNEEZE OUT!
We learned all about coughs and sneezes through the Covid-19 Pandemic… Now imagine all those germs out of your toilet flying in your face and landing on your water cup and toothbrush… Or sitting in them and carrying them back to your warm bed!!
April 2020 Cnet.com
“Until you zap it, soak it or buy a new one, your toothbrush is covered in bacteria, viruses, and other filth — including poop particles”
“And unless you’re among the few civilized people who put the toilet seat down before they flush, it’s also covered in poo. The reason? The sudden rush of water swirling around the toilet bowl stirs up a towering vortex of microscopic poo particles. This vapor then diffuses throughout your entire bathroom and eventually settles on every surface, including the bristles of your uncovered toothbrush”.
“Even though the thought of a post-flush tornado raining bacteria all over your bathroom might make you want to stuff your toothbrush in the nearest bathroom drawer, that’s actually not at all what the ADA recommends. The best way to store your toothbrush, according to another meta-analysis, is upright, in a toothbrush holder, uncovered so it can air-dry.
That means, ultimately, that the best way to keep the toilet particles off your toothbrush and where it belongs is to close the lid on your toilet each time you flush”.
Common Sense Answer :
Here we are a year ago and everyone still learning this, not to mention the advice being “Flush Lid Down” but as I am sure you have realized… without Magnetic Sealing of the bowl it still comes out and ALL OVER YOUR PEARLY WHITES!”
March 2020- Metro.Co.Uk
“Dr. Simon Clarke, an expert in cellular microbiology from the University of Reading, said he was ‘very surprised’ to hear coronavirus had been found in feces, adding: It affects people’s airways. How it gets to the gut is uncertain”
Common Sense Answer :
It gets there by breathing in Toilet Plume!!
Feb 2020 ScienceAlert.com
“Importantly, 2019-nCoV has been reported elsewhere in the feces of patients with atypical abdominal symptoms, similar to SARS which was also shed in urine, suggesting a fecal transmission route which is highly transmissible,”
Common Sense Answer :
Whenever we are sick with anything from the Common Cold, All the way up to things like Covid- 19 we pass them in our Urine, Feces and Vomit.
Feb 2020 Healio
“These spores allow C. difficile to persist in the environment for extended periods of time, meaning they can survive in a toilet bowl and are small enough to be projected from the toilet bowl via [a] plume that results from flushing.”
Common Sense Answer :
Do we needlessly take the risk in our Hospitals and schools?
2019 Mc Gill University
“What is the pink deposit that is sometimes seen in toilets and around sinks and bathtubs?
The pink color is due to a pigment secreted by a species of bacteria known as Serratia marcescens…They can cause infections, but that generally happens in hospitals and affects people with compromised immune systems”.
Common Sense Answer :
Oh, the same Hospitals that have No Toilet Lids, trying to make sick people with weakened immune systems healthier…. Awesssssssooooooooommmmmeeeeee
Nov 2018 USA Today.com
Source: https://www.today.com/home/it-necessary-close-toilet-lid-when-you-flush-t143776
“Contaminated toilets have been clearly shown to produce large droplet and droplet nuclei bioaerosols during flushing, and research suggests that this toilet plume could play an important role in the transmission of infectious diseases for which the pathogen is shed in feces or vomit,” reads a 2015 update on the 1975 study from the “American Journal of Infection Control.” “The possible role of toilet plume in airborne transmission of norovirus, SARS and pandemic influenza is of particular interest.”
Common Sense Answer :
We have known about Toilet Plume and its relation to Pandemics, even back in 1975 and again in 2018… and simply chose to ignore the Science.
Sept 2018 Men’s Health
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.menshealth.com/health/amp23024345/never-flush-with-toilet-lid-up/
“Toilet plume isn’t just gross: It’s bad for your health. The droplets could contain traces of harmful bacteria like Shigella, E coli, C difficile — all of which are found in the poop and vomit of infected people and can survive for months”
Common Sense Answer :
Breathing in your and your family’s aerosolized Feces, Urine, Vomit and Menstrual Fluid is Bad for your Health! Who knew? Oh wait, we did. Now think Public Washrooms with Complete Strangers…
August 2018 Good Housekeeping
Source: https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/health/a22777060/close-the-toilet-seat/
“Research suggests that this toilet plume could play an important role in the transmission of infectious diseases for which the pathogen is shed in feces or vomit,” the scientists wrote in the American Journal of Infection Control.”
Common Sense Answer :
Read it again, and again. And one more time, in case you are a real Karen.
May 2018 Harvard Health Hand Dryers
Source: https://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/the-bacterial-horror-of-the-hot-air-hand-dryer-2018051113823
“How did the bacteria get into the air in the first place? Unfortunately, every time a lidless toilet is flushed, it aerosolizes a fine mist of microbes. This fecal cloud may disperse over an area as large as six square meters (65 square feet). Aerosols from flushed toilets may be especially harmful in the hospital setting.”
Common Sense Answer :
We accept Germs “All Over our Bathrooms” Now do you accept these same germs on your ToothBrush?
Jan 2018 Self.com
Source: https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.self.com/story/toilet-plume-poop-spray/amp
“It’s like your Toilet is throwing Poop Confetti… Another (Study) determined that salmonella, which can cause similar symptoms, lingered in the toilet bowl for 50 days after it was put in there, got aerosolized every time people flushed, and contaminated surfaces like the toilet flusher and door handle”.
Common Sense Answer :
We knew about “Poop Confetti” in 2018 and did nothing… And if Salmonella does that, what about the other Fecal Oral Diseases in your Toilet?
Jan 2018 LiveBetterWith.com – Cancer
Source: https://cancer.livebetterwith.com/blogs/cancer/flush-toilet-twice-chemotherapy
“Flush the toilet twice after chemotherapy for at least seven days. Put the lid down before flushing to avoid splashing.”
“If you vomit into the toilet, clean off all splashes and flush twice. If you vomit into a bucket or basin, carefully empty it into the toilet without splashing the contents and flush twice. Wash out the bucket with hot, soapy water and rinse it, emptying the wash and rinse water into the toilet, then flushing it”.
“Caregivers should wear two pairs of disposable gloves if they need to touch any of your body fluids. They should always wash their hands with warm water and soap afterward – even if they had gloves on”.
Common Sense Answer :
As you can see, it’s not just harmful viruses and bacteria that come out of us… Care providers are worried about splash back from Toilets (i.e. Two Pairs of Gloves) causing irritation and in some cases causing severe illness in care providers from being exposed to these drugs… But again, what nobody is thinking and talking about is “What about those chemo drugs being inhaled or creating fomites from Toilet Plume?”
June 2015 Well Blogs New York Times
Source: Https://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/06/08/ask-well-what-diseases-can-i-get-from-a-toilet-seat/
“Studies- Some Done in Hospital Bathrooms have found dangerous strains on Toilet Seats, Including anti-biotic resistant Staphylococcus (One of Several “Flesh-Eating Bacteria”) Norovirus ( “The Cruise Ship Bug”) E.Coli, Shigella and Streptococcus. In theory even Ebola could be picked up from a Toilet”.
Common Sense Answer :
Again, we go to hospitals to feel better right?
So if this is happening Here?
What is happening in our Schools, Businesses & Nursing Homes?
June 2015 Women’s Health
Source: https://www.womenshealthmag.com/health/a19908783/toilet-plume/
“Outbreaks of gastroenteritis on airplanes and cruise ships have been linked to the plume, as well as a SARS outbreak in 2003 when a patient in Hong Kong may have spread the virus with a flush”.
“Speaking of outbreaks…if someone in your house has a stomach bug, it might be best to convince them to stick to using just one toilet and to clean it after each use. Why? Adalja says there are always going to be “residual remnants” in the bowl that aren’t reached by the water stream after someone flushes”.
” With time, those remnants can slide into the toilet bowl and wind up in the plume, causing you to get sick, too”.
“Adalja says flushing with the lid down can minimize the size of the plume.”
Common Sense Answer :
“Remnants? Bowl Sliding? Minimize Plume?” How about… ELIMINATING ALL THESE PROBLEMS! By using a Common Sense Toilet Seat!
Dec 2014 Blogspot.com
Source: http://haicontroversies.blogspot.com/2014/12/toilet-lids-for-infection-prevention.html?m=1
“While caring for patients with C. difficile and viral gastroenteritis infections, I looked over and noticed toilets without lids. Of course, most toilets in hospitals (and many public spaces) lack lids. Reasons given for lack of lids are (a) lids might be hard to lift for some folks and (b) lids would be another surface to clean. But lids also prevent the aerosolization of pathogens into the environment,”.
Common Sense Answer :
Yes, it might be one extra thing to clean, or would you rather “Fire Off your Bathroom Blender” and let all those pathogens float on everything including your toothbrush?
Jan 2012 Prevention.com
Source: https://www.prevention.com/life/a20430221/how-toilets-spread-germs/
“Scientists at Leeds University tested the air above toilets and found that the germ, C. difficile, which causes violent bacteria and vomiting, can be spewed up to 10 inches above toilet seats with every open flush”.
“Between 15-47 contaminated water droplets were detected on nearby surfaces—which means you may want to think twice about where you’re leaving your toothbrush”.
“If someone if your family has come down with the winter bug, clean off all areas of the toilet regularly. And if you’re out in public among lidless toilets, make sure to wash your hands”.
Common Sense Answer :
Science has known about Virus Shedding in Urine and Feces ie. “If someone has come down with a Winter Bug.” Yet most of you reading this are realizing this truth for the very 1st time… Why needlessly expose your family?!?