Toilet hand dryer spreads bacteria

in science •  6 years ago 

It's easy because it dries and you do not have a handkerchief.

Especially a jet dryer that dries the bag with hot air. Actually sprinkling the bacteria on hand with water. According to a new study, the jet dryer turned out to be spreading illness in the hospital's toilet.

Researchers made a team and they decided to work on how dirty is the jet dryer. They examined the spread of diseases such as Staphylococcus aureus resistant to antibiotics in toilets. In the hospital's toilet examined, there were a jet dryer and a paper towel, two hospital toilets were examined for one hospital, and the spread of bacteria was compared with a jet dryer and a paper towel.

According to the Journal of Hospital Infection, methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus was found 3 times more in a toilet with a jet dryer in a British hospital, in France similar, a wide area antibiotic with a jet dryer toilet It seems that 2 times more bacteria resistant to substances were found. Of course, not a good thing. Super-resistant bacteria are born and spread in hospitals. The patients with the weak body are easily infected.

But the jet dryer is not bad. If you wash your hands thoroughly and let dry hands dry with a jet dryer, this will not happen. It is a bit ironic that machines that should have been designed to easily dry their hands are to fly off bacteria.

The jet dryer is scattering more bacteria than paper towels or weak hand dryers has been studied many times in the past. But the difference in the degree of bacterial sprinkling is still being debated. Companies that sell the jet dryer such as Dyson. The jet dryer you have countered with their own research results that it is safe, that in addition to the jet dryer is not dangerous enough to say so also research results.

Despite these two views, the author of the paper says that guidelines should be made to minimize the spread of fungus and contamination, and not to install a jet dryer at the hospital to protect the patient.


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Interesting and useful information! Thanks for sharing. ;)

That's great, thanks... @tangmo

You're welcome! ;)