Oct. 21, 2011 -- Frequent hand washing will keep those nasty bugs at bay, right? Not if you’re using a public bathroom. Paper dispensers, hand dryers, door handles -- all the things you touch after scrubbing -- are contaminated with all sorts of menacing microbes, sometimes too many to count.
"We documented extensive bacterial contamination of high‐touch environmental sites in 22 public restrooms and aircraft," says researcher Lennox Archibald, MD, PhD, of the College of Medicine, University of Florida, in Gainesville.
Translation: Bathrooms in restaurants, resorts, hospitals, and even libraries are crawling with bugs that can cause everything from diarrhea to wound infections.
It stands to reason that washing your hands will keep bacteria at bay and that you can catch all kinds of nasty bugs if you're not careful.
But it's my opinion that you can't catch a yeast
infection that way since the build up of yeast in the body comes more from diet, antibiotics and other sources.
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