Why You Should Never Take Your Phone into The Toilet With You

Not gonna lie, we are definitely guilty of taking our phone into the toilet with us, and why wouldn't we? It's the perfect opportunity to check your emails, scroll through Instagram, or even conquer a Candy Crush level or two!

But when you think of it, it's pretty obvious that sitting and scrolling isn’t the most hygienic activity. But it is really THAT bad?

Hygiene expert Dr Lisa Ackerley told Metro.co.uk that "If you wipe your bum then pick up your phone, you may as well not bother washing your hands because all the bacteria you put on your phone will end up back on your hands." 

While bugs transferred by hands are the main way, they certainly aren't the only way.

"Spray could travel around six feet from the flush," Dr Ackerley said. This means that theoretically, you could flush the toilet and tiny droplets could drift, and end up landing on your phone, or on a surface that your phone might come in contact with.

But it's not all bad news, as Val Curtis, the director of the Environmental Health Group at London School of Hygeine and Tropical Medicine, told Metro that she didn’t think using phones on the loo is a massive problem.

‘It’s important to get in perspective that there are germs everywhere’, she said to Metro. ‘The question is really, ‘Could it make someone else sick?’

Dr Curtis said that the real thing we need to worry about is dirty hands.

So if you're gonna tweet on the toilet, no matter what, just remember to use that soap and water afterwards. On your hands, not the phone, obviously. 

Source: Metro