Week 9
This January, our family was fortunate enough to take an amazing two week cruise from Argentina, around Cape Horn to Chile. There were so many memorable moments, that of which I will cherish for a lifetime. I will salt away these terrific times, to be brought up again in a different entry. On another note, I wonder if any of you have ever been in the teeny tiny bathrooms of a bedroom suite on a cruise ship? Everything is super compact and functional. There is a special place for all your toiletries, an oval shower that also functions as a clothes line, even innovative hooks and shelves cramped into this small space. The most practical design though, was the placement of the flushing mechanism for the toilet, which was strategically placed behind the lid. In order to flush the toilet, one would have to close the lid to get at the flush button. This is ingenious, considering that there are more than 10,000 bacteria particles that escape into the air with a single flush!
A concern in the bathroom is particles that hang in the air after flushing the toilet. The particles are called aerosol. Charles Gerba, an environmental microbiologist at the University of Arizona, performed studies on toilet aerosol to examine what occurs when a toilet is flushed. He found that an invisible cloud of water droplets forms and travels six to eight feet, spreading bacteria to countertops, walls, ceiling, floor and any items, such as toothbrushes, in the vicinity. If you flush with the lid up, a polluted plume of bacteria and water vapour erupts out of the flushing toilet bowl. The polluted water particles float for a few hours around your bathroom before they all land. Some of them will land on your tooth brush.(http://healthierprograms.com/?tag=dr-charles-gerba)
Don’t even get me started on toothbrushes! Offering you solid reasons why changing your toothbrush regularly will be stowed away for yet another entry, but let me leave you with this last tidbit of information. Scientists have found more than 10,000,000 bacteria living on a single toothbrush.
OUT WITH THE OLD, IN WITH THE NEW!
Have a great weekend!
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My Friend P. says "Plus, have you ever measured the energy in a toliet, it is totally negative!!! According to Feng Shui, toilets and bathrooms should ALWAYS be closed because thruough all drains you get negative CHI coming into your house."
ReplyDeleteTake a "pendulo" and try it out over your toilet, it spins to the left.
Have a good week-end,
P
PS Don't forget to close the lid and the door to your bathroom