Quick Tips for Reducing Germ Exposure and Auto Accidents

Germs could be harbored almost anywhere and their affects could even cause injury or accidents on the road. These microorganisms can be found in sterile places like hospitals too. According to an AARP study on average, an active adult can touch as many as thirty objects within a minute, many of which could be infested with bacteria, such objects may include faucets, switches, knobs, cell phones or remote controls.

Fighting germs can reduce the level of illness people are exposed to and thus improving most people’s safety. There are various ways to combat germs; a good place to begin is to know where they lurk. You’d be surprised that you may be interacting with germs on the outside world that can get you sick on a regular basis.

Sometimes a person can attract germs when they least expect, such as at a public restaurant. People are may be paying for and expensive meal but never expect to leave with more than what they bargained. Restaurant menus could be infested with germs. A study found in Journal of Medical Virology uncovered that cold and flu viruses can survive for up to 18 hours on hard surfaces. At a restaurant there could be dozens if not hundreds of people who handle menus and may leave their germs on the one you touched. Perhaps they touched something dirty, or perhaps they coughed and remnants of their cold could be transferred to you are there after they leave.

Restaurants or bars have ever alluring freshly sliced lemon wedges that may not interact too well with your immune system. A 2007 study found in the Journal of Environmental health that approximately 70 percent of the wedges used to adorn the tops of glasses had disease causing microbes, including the infamous E. coli. Researchers for that study found that at 21 restaurants, 25 different microorganisms lingered on the 76 lemons they got for their drinks. But the infestation does not stop there.

When people reach for the salt, pepper or ketchup, they may have forgotten to clean their hands before or after. Similar to restaurant menus, people leave behind their germs long after they left the establishment. Specialists in the field agree that many people don’t wash their hands before eating, and as a result, anything they touch could be a vehicle that transfers their germs onto someone else. And on the way to the bathroom people encounter more germs.

A bathroom that requires you to touch its knob could have someone else’s traces of fecal matter, blood or urine, plus whatever they were touching prior or after going to the restroom. Using towels to close or open the door may prove to be a solid barrier between you and the handle of filth.

If people are sickened at a restaurant because the staff neglected to keep a clean environment you may become a hazard on the road and cause a wreck or be part of one that may call for a car accident lawyer.  

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