Do You Know What Happens When You Flush!

If you flush the toilet without closing the lid; Beware! Why, because, billions of small germy drops of bacteria are released into the air from the toilet.

Does your toothbrush sit out, or do you keep a glass out to rinse your mouth? They get attacked by the germs! Yes, it's gross! Everything in your bathroom will be landing ground for the germs.

According to Dr. Philip M. Tierno, author of The Secret Life of Germs and a professor at New York University Medical Center, "the water aerolizes 20 feet from the center of the flush." His advice is to close the lid before you hit the handle and rinse your toothbrush with peroxide everyday. Or, better yet, store it in the medicine cabinet.

In addition, Dr. Charles Gerba, an environmental microbiologist from the University of Arizona, says Dr. Tierno is not exaggerating. Gerba told Arizona Alumnus magazine that if you look closely at pictures of "germy ejecta" that are sprayed into the air from a toilet flush, "they look like Bagdad at night during a U.S. air attack."

Did you know that about 25% of people, when they leave a bathroom, leave with fecal coliform (gross) or E.Coli on their hands? The American Medical Association states that after touching a toilet seat just one time, it takes at least 5 hand washings, with hot soapy water, to kill the bacteria and the germs. Are any of us that careful, probably not!

Not only are the seats, top and bottom, a breeding ground for E. Coli and contaminated with other bacteria, but so is everything else in the bathroom.

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A Remedy To Remember: "But all these things that I once thought very worthwhile-now I've thrown them all away so that I can put my truat and hope in Christ alone". Phil. 3:7

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