YSK that restroom hand dryers blow fecal bacteria onto your hands

You Should Know@lemmy.world – 183 points – 1 years ago

journals.asm.org

There was a peer-reviewed report published in the journal for Applied and Environmental Microbiology that studied the amount of bacteria that was blown from hand dryers in 36 public restrooms at the University of Connecticut School of Medicine. The sample from the study concluded that as many as 60 colonies of bacteria were blown from a hand dryer in just 30-seconds. A number of those bacteria were linked to fecal and human bacteria, even bacteria known to cause serious infections.

Why YSK: So that you are informed for your own health, hygiene, and wellness and to prevent further spread of more harmful bacteria.

Citation & Sources: "Deposition of Bacteria and Bacterial Spores by Bathroom Hot-Air Hand Dryers" (April 2018), Applied and Environmental Microbiology

https://journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/AEM.00044-18

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It's not easy to convey important information when it comes to biology IMO.

Yeah we breath in fart and poop "particles" all the time, and a whole bunch of other stuff.

I don't know about the idea that every time you take a breath you inspire some molecules from when Ceasar said "et tu mon Brutus", or any other inspiring phrase, but also from one of Hitlers farts.

Molecules are small, really small and there are really many of them.

Our immune system works really hard, crazily hard even, and it's not a simple mechanism (we basically don't know how it works) but if you want to know if a fan blowing air or towel or a one usage towel is good or bad (or obviously how they influence our wellbeing) you have to do a real study. By scientists, and not by news looking "journalists".

BTW fact of the day to throw you off: there are somewhere around 600.000 cells that divide in an adult human body every:

. .

second.

Cheers