Video: Elevator and mobile phone buttons turned out to be dirtier than public toilets
2024 Author: James Gerald | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 14:00
Many women have a manic desire for cleanliness. We scrub the kitchen conscientiously, make household members wash their hands as often as possible and monitor the sterility of the bathroom. However, bacteria, including disease-causing ones, lie in wait for us not in our own home.
American scientists have found that elevator buttons contain about 35 times more bacteria than the toilet seat on the average public toilet. Researchers at the University of Arizona conducted bacteriological analyzes of button surfaces in elevators of hotels, restaurants, banks, offices and airports. It turned out that on one square centimeter of the button there is an average of 313 colony-forming units (CFU) of bacteria.
On the corresponding area of the average toilet seat, an average of eight CFU can be found. The analysis also revealed that pathogenic bacteria, mainly of the intestinal group, are often present among the microbes on the elevator buttons, Medportal.ru reports with reference to the Daily Mail.
Based on the results obtained, Stanaway recommended that all mobile phone users pay close attention to the hygiene of their devices and try not to give them into the wrong hands, for example, when viewing photos.
An earlier study by the British magazine Which? Found that mobile phones harbor 18 times more bacteria than the handles of public toilet cisterns.
Expert Carey Stanaway determined the total microbial count in smears from 30 randomly selected mobile phones and compared it with that obtained in the study of toilet handles.
This refers to the total number of bacteria. Not all of them are pathogenic for humans, however, pathogenic microbes were also found, for example, pathogens of intestinal and purulent infections - Salmonella, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus.
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