Are you public toilet hoverer? Do you squat over the bowl, making sure to never let it come into contact with your skin? Do you hold in Number 2’s for hours just so you can wait until you get home to use the dunny?
Well, turns out you’ve been straining your thigh muscles in vain.
If the idea of sitting on a public toilet makes you do this:
Then you might want to listen up to this news story from Buzzfeed.
They interviewed, Kelly Reynolds, one of the world’s foremost experts on the spread of germs, and this is what she had to say about public toilet seats:
“There are very few germs that can actually be transmitted from the seat to your skin… The germs you should be worried about are the ones passed along the fecal-oral route, meaning they have to get to your mouth. There’s very few things you can get as a skin infection (from sitting on a public toilet).”
So that’s that. Unless you decide to lick the seat in a public bathroom, you’ll probably be fine.
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Top Comments
Um yeah....to all the people who line the seat with toilet paper before using it. You would need to use at least 20 layers to prevent any germs from touching your toosh.... Why not just give it a wipe to clean any wetness then sit. Afterwards....wash your hands....
At uni they have a spray in a dispenser that you can clean the seat with before sitting down. It even doubles as air freshener!
Ripped off! Why didn't they have them when I was at uni?
Thank you International students!
We had the international students, just not the spray toilet seat cleaners.
Ripped off! It's one of my fave improvements. The doof doof music they play full bore in the courtyard for a few hours at lunchtime, I'm not so keen on!! So old now. Ha!