A Germs Real Home.

                Growing up, you probably remember your parents telling you to wash your hands after using the bathroom and seen flyers posted up on the bathroom walls that said "wash your hands". It has been implanted in your mind that bathrooms are the filthiest places surrounded by germs. With the use of soap, it gets rid of some germs you may have caught from using the bathroom. But is that really the main place you can catch the most germs from everyday? Actually, no. Bathrooms are not the home of the germs.

                Germs are tiny organisms, only seen through microscopes, that are all over the world. People believe that a bathrooms is the one place with the most germs since different kinds of people use the toilets, touch the doors, etc. But, let us be honest. There are people that do not wash their hands every single time they use toilet, which increases the germs in the bathroom and is one reason why the bathrooms are imagined to be so filthy. Sometimes washing your hands does not satisfy the feel of freshness after using the toilet since you will come in contact with germs again on your way out. But the bathroom is not the only place with  germs. Truth be told, germs easily gather in objects you use every day. As Furchgott states in the New York Times, "Phones are, in fact, the carriers of germs".

                Every day cell phones are used to make calls, send text messages, check emails, etc. People allow their family members and/or friends to use their cell phone to use the internet or make a call, where they are careless to think about to what germs that person may already have when they used the bathroom and if they even washed their hands.

                Every part of the cell phone is touched and is never cleaned. Why? Because people do not think a cell phone could contain germs. Well, it does. Matthews states in My Health News Daily that "while toilets tend to get cleaned frequently, people associate the bathroom with germs, cell phones are often left out of the cleaning routine". Even though toilets are viewed to be filled with germs, they are cleaned more often than a cell phone itself. What does this mean for you? Clean your cell phone more often, since it is the real home of the germs.

Bibliography:

Furchgott, Roy. "Gadgetwise; Now, the Germ-Fighting Phone Cover." The New York Times. 20 May 2010. Web. 3 Nov 2012.  

Matthews, Susan E. "Why Your Cellphone Has More Bacteria Than a Toilet Seat." Live Science. 30 Aug 20120. Web. 3 Nov 2012