But gram negative rods which are pathogenic in the vast majority of cases represented the greatest threat.
How many germs are on a bathroom door handle.
That means everything you put on your bathroom surface is going to pick up bacteria.
Then an unsuspecting person uses the bathroom and after washing their hands they open the door to leave and the germs on the door handle finds a new home on their hands.
Interestingly enough the toilet handle barely had a trace of germs on its surface.
Bathroom door handles are actually one of the least germy surfaces in the bathroom.
The thought of touching a door handle in a public restroom is cringe inducing.
An internal handle on a rarely opened closet will have significantly fewer bacteria than the handles in a busy public bathroom due to the frequency of contact with people s hands.
Here are 10 tips to stop germs in the bathroom.
Paper towel dispenser.
So it is recommended you keep your make up out.
A bathroom counter top is home to 452 bacteria per square inch.
Gram positive cocci which are associated with skin infections and several other illnesses represented nearly 15 percent of germs found on the interior door handle.
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So having a hand sanitizer available after you touch that bathroom door might just stop the bacteria from getting in.
It takes just one person who doesn t wash his or her hands to leave some germs hanging around to get passed on and spread diseases.
We know what goes on in the privacy of a bathroom.
Some dispensers can harbor up to 50 times more bacteria than the average public restroom toilet seat.
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Traditional grocery store shopping carts have 361 times more bacteria than a bathroom door knob.
Public toilets and the toilets at your work are two places.
Unfortunately more harmful bacteria also had a sizeable presence.
A budget grocery store cart has 8 112 bacteria colonies per square inch while a toilet handle only has 30 bacteria colonies per square inch.
In fact pathogenic gram positive cocci made up 100 percent of the germ content of both the door lock and toilet seat.
Door handles in locations where elderly people or immune compromised people frequent should be cleaned frequently.
New invention stops the spread of bacteria on bathroom door handles.