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How many bacteria are there in your mobile phone?
Nowadays, smartphones have become our daily life. It is rare to find a person who does not use a fan. Its use is fast as it helps from basic work to complex and important work.
Some people have a habit of having their phone with them even when they sleep. While eating, going for a walk or doing some work, most of us have a smartphone in hand. How many bacteria are there in the smartphone when you keep it in your hand? Today we are giving information about this matter.
We know that we should wash our hands regularly to remove the bacteria from our hands. Have we ever cleaned our cell phones? Clean in the sense that we have adopted any method to remove the bacteria?
Seattle Times journalist Bobby Cania has made such a discovery, where it is mentioned how many bacteria are in the phones we use.
According to him, cell phones have 25,127 bacteria per square inch. Based on this, our phone has an average of 164,000 more bacteria. As a result, the smartphone is defined as the dirtiest item among the items we use daily.
According to online media Mashable, our smartphone is full of bacteria many times more than toilet seat, kitchen, dog food bowl, checkout screen, door knob.
Here is a list of the items that harbor the most bacteria:
mobile phone; 25,127 bacteria per square inch
Door handle; 8,643 bacteria per square inch
checkout screen; 4,500 bacteria per square inch
Dishes for feeding dogs; 2,110 bacteria per square inch
Kitchen counter; 1,736 bacteria per square inch
toilet seat; 1,201 bacteria per square inch
Therefore, if you eat while talking on the phone, experts suggest to eliminate such a habit. We Nepalis usually eat with our hands. Therefore, it is better not to use the phone after washing your hands after eating. Even if we wash our hands, there are millions of bacteria that cannot be seen with the naked eye. Similarly, there are countless bacteria in the phone.
So you can use sanitizer before using the phone. In this way, by making the phone free of bacteria, various diseases can also be avoided.
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