{"id":2887,"date":"2025-06-23T13:41:24","date_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/doctor-urges-people-to-never-use-their-electronic-devices-whilst-on-the-toilet\/"},"modified":"2025-06-23T13:41:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-23T13:41:25","slug":"doctor-urges-people-to-never-use-their-electronic-devices-whilst-on-the-toilet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/23\/doctor-urges-people-to-never-use-their-electronic-devices-whilst-on-the-toilet\/","title":{"rendered":"Doctor urges people to never use their electronic devices whilst on the toilet"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-23 13:41:23<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>People who use their electronic devices on the toilet risk their chance of getting diarrhea and stomach cramps.<BR><br \/>\nFecal bacteria, such as E. coli, and Pseudomonas &#8211; which can trigger infections in the blood and lungs &#8211; can get onto the smart devices when they are in the bathroom.<BR><br \/>\nEven if people wash their hands with soap, the germs can travel back to a person&#8217;s hands.<BR><br \/>\nTherefore, it is recommended that smartphones, tablets or other electronic devices are kept out of the bathroom, and regularly sanitised with alcohol wipes to prevent people from coming into contact with fecal bacteria.<BR><br \/>\nDoctor Primrose Freestone, a professor of clinical microbiology at the University of Leicester, told MailOnline: &#8220;The phone will at some point get contaminated, so periodically disinfecting your phone is a good idea.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;My Nokia gets a disinfectant wipe over twice a week.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;Toilet areas adjacent to toilets, because of the toilet spray trajectory, are pretty contaminated.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;It does not matter where you go, there will be faecal bacteria on lots of [bathroom] surfaces. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;So soaps and taps, toilet and wash basin surfaces, door handles, bath mats \u2013 the list is long.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nDr. Freestone also said to avoid putting electronic devices on the floor around the toilet because it would &#8211; if not disinfected frequently &#8211; have traces of faeces.&#8221;<BR><br \/>\nThe expert said: &#8220;The floor around the toilet will \u2013 if not disinfected regularly \u2013 have traces of faeces with lots of gut bacteria, which will stay alive for hours and days.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;So I would not put your phone on the floor next to the toilet as it is likely to pick up the faeces and the bacteria associated with the waste product.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-23 13:41:23 People who use their electronic devices on the toilet risk their chance of getting diarrhea and stomach cramps. Fecal bacteria, such as E. coli, and Pseudomonas &#8211; which&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2888,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2887"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2889,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2887\/revisions\/2889"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}