The Use of Electric Toilet Seats with Water Spray Is Efficacious in Maintaining Hand Hygiene in Experimental Model.

The Use of Electric Toilet Seats with Water Spray Is Efficacious in Maintaining Hand Hygiene in Experimental Model. Jpn J Infect Dis. 2018 Apr 27;: Authors: Oie S, Aoshika H, Arita E, Kamiya A Abstract A simulatory experiment was conducted to examine the hand contamination from wiping the buttocks after using or not using an electric toilet seat with water spray. A model of the buttocks was smeared with diarrheal feces artificially made containing Serratia marcescens, and wiped by the participants wearing plastic gloves with 4 sheets of toilet paper using the water spray of electric seat or not. Subsequently, the presence of S. marcescens on the surfaces of the gloves were quantitated. The mean count ± standard deviation of S. marcescens when using the water spray and not using were 0.067±0.249 and 4,275±6,069 colony-forming units (cfu) / glove, respectively. The cfu of S. marcescens was significantly lower when using the water spray (p < 0.00001) prior to wiping the artificial diarrheal feces. This result support the effectiveness of the water spray to prevent defecation-related hand contamination. PMID: 29709985 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher]
Source: Japanese Journal of Infectious Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Tags: Jpn J Infect Dis Source Type: research