Current Events > Bathroom electric hand dryers are covering your hands in poopoo

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https://inews.co.uk/news/science/bathroom-hand-dryers-are-spraying-poo-at-you-study-suggests/

While we might hope bathroom hand dryers are helping to clean and dry our hands, a new study has suggested that they are in fact covering them in poo.

The University of Connecticut carried out a study to identify whether the dryers were helping to disperse germs, or just redistributing them.

The paper, published in the Applied and Environmental Microbiology, found that dryers spread germs.

The unhygienic process begins when you flush the toilet with the lid open.

This sends faecal particles into the air, where they linger until you turn on the hand dryer.

The particles are then heated up in the machine and spat back out over your wet hands, which is a particularly healthy environment for germs to thrive in.

This also means that if your toilet is in your bathroom and your toothbrush is exposed, there is probably faecal particles on that too.

These results indicate that many kinds of bacteria, including potential pathogens and spores, can be deposited on hands exposed to bathroom hand dryers and that spores could be dispersed throughout buildings and deposited on hands by hand dryers, the study concluded.

Researchers suggest fitting dryers with HEPA (high efficiency particulate air) filters, which can reduce the bacterial deposition by four times.

Alternatively paper towels are found to be more hygienic, but that option is also less environmentally friendly and potentially more costly.

The consequence of hand dryers spreading poo is unlikely to have a serious effect on your health, however, as many day-to-day items, such as mugs and desks, are also covered in germs.

If that makes you feel any better.

It doesn't have a health effect, so it's just more anti-poop rhetoric. Disgusting.
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smoliske posted...

The consequence of hand dryers spreading poo is unlikely to have a serious effect on your health, however, as many day-to-day items, such as mugs and desks, are also covered in germs.

Less than half of the cells in and on your body are human cells.

It's mostly microorganisms.
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Your hands are supposed to be cleaned already, before you turn on the jet dryer.

https://imgur.com/gallery/XhRrcIF
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Questionmarktarius posted...

Your hands are supposed to be cleaned already, before you turn on the jet dryer.

you didn't read the article did you

I hate handdryers, yes. But what I REALLY hate is electronic paper towel dispensers. Those fucking things are useless and aggravating. Wave your hand under them 50 times and never get a damn towel. Just give me those crank ones. Stop doing technology to things that don't need technology.
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smoliske posted...

you didn't read the article did you

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Sayoria posted...

Just give me those crank ones.

I'd rather have the simple non-mechanical ones, where the interleaved folded papertowels pretty much dispense themselves.

Questionmarktarius posted...

smoliske posted...

you didn't read the article did you

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...no?

Sayoria posted...

Just give me those crank ones.

I'd rather have the simple non-mechanical ones, where the interleaved folded papertowels pretty much dispense themselves.

The issue with those though is people can kind of ruin the rhythm of them. As someone who works somewhere where I deal with trifold towels like that, eventually people just pull them all out or something.
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smoliske posted...

This also means that if your toilet is in your bathroom and your toothbrush is exposed, there is probably faecal particles on that too.

Dammit. I knew I should've installed a toilet in the kitchen.

This is why I dont bother washing my hands when I piss at the bar
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Saves me the trouble of fishing a turd out of the bowl
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