Close the toilet lid when flushing!

Have you ever realized the importance of closing the toilet lid when you flush? Lots of people don’t. A close friend of mine once told me about the importance of closing down the lid but I never took it seriously, as it comes from the person who always overstresses in sanitation by bringing her own tissue and toilet-seat paper and gel-cleaner whenever she feels the urge to visit a public restroom. She claimed the bacteria could fly up to 6 meters, leaving the walls of the restroom full with the bacteria of our crap (including on the paper-toilet provided in the cubicle). Hmmm, she’s exaggerating, I once thought.

So, I did a little research on the net myself, and the result is quite surprising. In Mythbuster episode 12, it was proven that the toothbrushes hung everywhere in the bathroom are with specific bacteria found in our ‘disposal’. Ugh, gross! I just can’t imagine brushing my teeth with an extra ‘toilet ingredient’!

In this matter, it’s true then that hygiene begins from the bathroom. Health-freak might bombard himself with lots and lots of expensive vitamins and precautions to keep healthy, but might neglect the necessity of closing down the toilet lid. Come to think of it, why bother consuming tons of megavitamins if you’re sprinkled with mushrooms of toilet-germs at least three times a day!

I don’t know how accurate this experiment done by Mythbuster is, and many people claimed the germs should not be dangerous for human. But isn’t it something to brighten up your day to know you might actually live a healthier life (for free!) by doing an effort of closing down the toilet-lid? After all, closing down the toilet lid will leave you with lots of advantages. Apart from averting things dropping to the toilet (that's how my ex-student Vicky lost her cellphones - two times!), it’ll look prettier when the lid is closed, don’t you think? And in my case, it prevents Hazel drinking from toilet.