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
Paid for by the paper towel industry which was in response to the hand dryer industry putting out it’s own paid study about how paper towels just spread fecal matter around your hands. It’s all shit no matter how you spread it.
This comment is the shit. It made me lol.
Yeah, what a shit show
yeah ther’s so much paid propaganda around paper vs dryer that I don’t know what to believe anymore.
i personally prefer paper, only because it’s usually faster for me.
It makes me deeply uncomfortable to entertain the thought that “the paper towel industry” is an entity out to manipulate me.
I still prefer towels for how fast they are. The Dyson ones are pretty similar though
So, the best is to bring your towel paper everywhere.
The best is to wash with wotah
You should also know that when they test for fecal matter they aren’t looking for actual pieces of poo they are looking for bacteria that are present in poo. You will find those bacteria just about everywhere
It all comes back to poo.
I’m pretty sure that regardless of where you are or what you’re doing, fecal matter is getting blown on your hands. Mythbusters tested this out once by putting tooth brushes all over their shop and then culturing the bacteria from them. IIRC the ones that were in the bathroom had the least amount of fecal matter.
The thing I remember is that even the control toothbrush that got opened and immediately locked away had fecal bacteria on it.
Literally everything in the restroom is covered in that… Including the air you breathe. Enjoy!
Smell is particulate. You can smell the last guys poo because little pieces of it are landing in your nostrils.
Thank you for that
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You’re smelling mostly the scatole. That’s the primary contributor to the smell of faeces.
Scatole is used in making perfumes, incidentally. And vanilla ice cream.
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I thought it was mostly the gaseous molecules some of the bacteria on poo emits that’s landing in your nose, not the poo itself.
If the blower is blowing fecal matter then it would also be settling all over the paper towels. Issue is placement not anything to do with the blowers.
Almost every public restroom I’ve ever been in has the paper towels and toilet paper locked in a closed dispenser unit.
oh those are definitely not sealed or protected from the air in the bathroom anymoreso than a hand dryer is. Not to mention many paper product replacements are stored elsewhere in or at least near the same bathroom
Oh noes! You better not even breathe in the bathroom, you might die!
Luckily paper towels are stacked though, so I’ll just avoid wiping my hands with the folds.
Yeah if there is nothing but blowers I just wipe my hands on my pants. If the blowers could somehow bring in outside air that should be better, but that complicates the install and maintainence.
Just wait a minute and your hands will dry on their own. Ideally you used soap and rubbed them together under the water long enough so they are clean. You did, didn’t you?
Why are you talking down to them? Don’t be rude.
what part of that post made you think he wasn’t washing his hands? the part where he described how he dries them?
So weirdly antagonistic.
Well you did, and I did. But think about how many did not, when you open the bathroom door after meticiously washing and drying your hands…
You don’t wash your hands. Your hands wash each other and you watch.
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Well, it’s from your (and other people’s) hands, onto everywhere.
Still, AFAIK it’s not clear if this is a problem.
Well I have to touch the door on the way out any way so it really doesn’t matter that much.
Just do what I do and wipe your hands on your pants because those blow dryers are virtually worthless. I’d have better luck blowing on my hands myself.
Bonus: My pants aren’t covered in fecal mist… I hope.
Narrator voice: “They were”
Basically everything is covered in fecal matter of you look well enough, and it doesn’t really matter. It’s really good for selling disinfectant though!
Fecal Mist, great name for the new Enigma album.
I don’t care about that. What’s worse for me is that the Dyson ones are so damn loud. It’s a pain having to hold one arm over your head in the stall to cover both ears.
Only wash my hands and flush the toilet in public restrooms that have touch less sinks. If the toilet isn’t automatic, I use my foot. Use the paper towel you wash your hands with to open the door on the way out or your sleeve if you have long sleeves on, or your elbow if it’s a push door. I’d rather have my own dick on my hands than my own and everyone else’s.
If the sink isn’t hands free you just walk out?
Yep. Turning the sink off is just as bad as turning it on. You just put everyone’s dick right back on your hands.
So you just don’t touch anything in public, ever?
I do, just try to avoid other people’s dicks and use hand sanitizer a lot. Sounds like you have a problem with this there, dickhands. Does that mess with your fetish or something?
But hand sanitizer is only 99.9% effective. You still have millions of other men’s dick germs on your hands, on your keyboard, in your mouth.
You cannot escape the dicks. No matter how unbathed you are.
Dicks.
Dicks.
Dicks.
Now they’re in your eyes.
That may be true but at the end of the day, you got more dicks on you than me, homo.
What a strange way to call yourself dickless.
God I never gave that a second thought but they’re right, its just sucking in and blowing farts onto my clean hands
didnt the mythbusters do an episode about keeping your toothbrush in the bathroom where their control toothbrush which just existed in a little glass dome for the duration of the test still ended up having the same bacteria thats present in poop as well?
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