Just How Hygienic Is Your Toilet Seat?

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Just How Hygienic Is Your Toilet Seat?
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• Over the years, much research has been conducted
  about hygiene and germ protection in the home,
  and it has often been scientifically reported
  that the toilet seat is more hygienic than most
  other surfaces in the entire home. Sounds
  unbelievable? But, its true.
• Kitchen chopping boards, tap handles, sinks and
  light switches all have been found to harbour
  more dangerous germs and bacteria than the
  average toilet seat, making it even more
  important to regularly sanitize these areas.
• How science has proved that the toilet seat is so
  safe
• One such study was conducted by a group of
  scientists in Tucson and involved 15 homes over a
  30 weeks study.

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• The team performed swabs on more than 10
  different sites in the kitchens and bathrooms of
  each home, including sinks, fluids wrung from
  dishcloths and sponges, tap handles and worktops,
  before advising the residents on how best to
  clean the surfaces with household bleach.
• The results showed that even before the residents
  began using bleach to clean, the toilet seat in
  every home was always the cleanest surface.
• Why is the toilet seat so darn clean?
• The most likely and widely accepted explanation
  is that toilet seats are just too dry to enable
  and support the successful growth of bacteria.

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• Most bacteria thrive in damp and wet conditions,
  and as toilet seats are generally dry, this would
  explain the lack of germs living there.
• What or where, was the most bacteria found?
• When this study was first conducted, and right at
  the beginning of the experiment, the researchers
  discovered a million times as many bacteria
  existing in the fluid wrung from dishcloths as
  was found on toilet seats. Even the chopping
  boards that were swabbed, were found to be
  harbouring up to three times as many bacteria.

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• Did things improve after the introduction of
  household bleach?
• When the residents were instructed how to use
  bleach to clean the surfaces in their kitchens
  and bathrooms, the results changed dramatically,
  however. Going from 100,000 bacteria per
  millilitre of fluid, down to just 10, the team
  were happy to inform the residents that their
  efforts had been rewarded, and advised them all
  to keep using the bleach in the same manner to
  prevent bacteria from growing and potentially
  making them very sick.
• So, what would be the single most important piece
  of advice that the scientists could give all
  home-dwellers? Clean dishcloths at least once a
  week and always in bleach.

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• Let them soak in a bucket of bleach for up to 10
  minutes, drain them off and then use them as
  normal. Work surfaces, sinks and chopping boards
  should be cleaned with bleach every day and the
  toilet bowl at least three times a week.
• To ensure that your home is always bacteria-free,
  why not use a professional cleaning company to
  help keep you and your family members safe from
  harmful germs?

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