The public toilets are not as dangerous as you think

The chances of catching a disease in a public restroom are minimal



You can undo the ugly face and stop nojinho, the public toilets are not a threat so great health - as long as your immune system to function well. A group of scientists from Argonne National Laboratory on the University of Chicago, accompanied the growth of microoganismos in public restrooms and found that despite the huge amount of bacteria that live there - almost 100,000 per square centimeter - most of them dies . This is because, although not seem very clean, the bathroom is not as favorable as it seems to place the proliferation of germs.



The study also showed that each pull discharge, a large number of intestinal bacteria was dispersed into the environment. But this is not so catastrophic. "Enteric Bacteria need more heat than the skin bacteria, for example, and they die quickly when exposed to cool, dry environment and rich in typical oxygen from a public toilet," explains the researcher Sean Gibbons.

Most germs seen in the study were associated with skin, because they are more resistant. During the eight weeks of research, 68-98% of communities of bacteria found in the bathrooms were skin or from outside the toilets. It is not surprising that the major focus of this type of bacteria were doors, doorknobs, faucets and soap dispensers. Since the seats of the vessel and discharges had a higher concentration of faecal bacteria.

The bathroom of your home is as dirty as a public toilet

We are not judging you clean your bathroom, but the fact is that the public toilets have more bacteria than your home. Of course, in some places there is potential with germs to make you sick, but most of them do not pose a real threat to health - and is not likely to get a sexually transmitted disease from a public restroom.

 Microbiologist Jack Gilbert, co-author of the study, conducted a similar survey of this in homes and hospitals and noted that the bathrooms are the most stable environments for microbial growth. Thus, organisms that can grow there have very low probability of forming large colonies and cause an infection. "If you cut your arm and rub it on the floor, the bathroom bacteria can colonize the wound and infect it. But otherwise, you do not have much to fear," jokes Gilbert.