Automatic Restroom Dispensers



Posted: Monday, September 27, 2010

by Amy Bauer R.D.H.
NewSolution LLC

From child to adult, we all use a public restroom at one time or other. Schoolchildren probably do this on a daily basis. Adults do this when shopping, travelling, visiting doctors' or dentists' offices, attending theatres, partaking in meetings or seminars, and at a workplace. These examples, and there are more, illustrate how often we do have to use a public restroom. So why should we be concerned?

Each time that we must use our hands to open doors, flush toilets, dispense soap, water, and paper towels. we pick up microbes that are left behind by everyone who has touched that device before you. Not all of those microbes are harmful or are germs. In fact, research has shown that being exposed to germs at an early age results in less allergies and it builds immunity. This is all well and good, however dealing with restroom cross-contamination is not where you want to gamble on good results. Cold and flu viruses, E.coli germs, and other harmful microbes present can cause and spread illness. Even in a home environment, family members can pass on germs to each other. Get out the disinfectant wipes when someone in the family is sick.

Public restrooms that are equipped with touchfree door openers, toilet flushers, water faucets,and soap and towel dispensers protect the visitors from having to come in contact with other peoples' germs. At the very least, after you turn on the faucet and dispense the soap, wash your hands, dispense a towel handsfree, and use that towel to turn off the faucet and to open the door. I drop the towel on the floor next to the door if there is no trash can there. The establishment will get the idea that they need to move the trash bin.

New antibiotic- resistant superbugs have reached the US. That should urge us to be more vigilant about using the public restroom. touchfree door
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