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I don't know Mike the discovery channel has done many different things proving that a bathroom might actually be the cleanest room in your house, and that your kitchen is probably the worst. Food contaminates produce more bacteria than anything else. You usually don't spend enough time in your bathroom to contaminate it the way you might think. I don't know anyone that eats in the bathroom. Also people are usually a little more methodical when it comes to cleaning their bathrooms. The mythbusters (one of my favorite shows) actually did a show based on the 5 second eating rule. This is the myth that when you drop food you have 5 seconds to pick it up and eating it before it is contaminated. They took culture samples from all of the surface ares in a normal household. The results were very surprising. The kitchen floor was actually worse than a toilet seat.
Mike said:without having read this source, i would imagine a toothbrush would get more bacteria (especially fecal bacteria) than a mask because many people keep their toothbrushes in the bathroom, in close proximity to the toilet. i actually do myself. yuck.
Dan Lyons said:As I said earlier, I'm skeptical of this type of study. This type of “hip shot” hype has almost destroyed the effectiveness of antibiotics.
Here some interesting data to support my position.
"In a healthy animal, the internal tissues, e.g. blood, brain, muscle, etc., are normally free of microorganisms. However, the surface tissues, i.e., skin and mucous membranes, are constantly in contact with environmental organisms and become readily colonized by various microbial species. The mixture of organisms regularly found at any anatomical site is referred to as the normal flora, except by researchers in the field who prefer the term "indigenous microbiota". The normal flora of humans consists of a few eucaryotic fungi and protists, but bacteria are the most numerous and obvious microbial components of the normal flora."
(Full article text from Textbook of Bacteriology)
http://www.textbookofbacteriology.net/normalflora.html
Your toothbrush will get you before that mask will.
"In his book, Why Your Toothbrush May Be Killing You Slowly, James Song, a biochemist from Wisconsin University, suggests that a range of serious health problems, including heart disease, stroke, arthritis and chronic infections, could be linked to unhygienic toothbrushes. Further research by Manchester University found that the average toothbrush contained around ten million germs, including a high percentage of potentially fatal bacteria such as staphylococci, streptococcus, E. coli and candida. Other studies have shown that over time, a single toothbrush can be the breeding ground for trillions of bacteria specimen."
(Full article link on WebMD)
http://www.drmoorhead.com/2008/08/is-there-bacteria-on-your-toothbr...
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