Cell Phones Causing Skin Infections

This is scary. I don't share my cell often, but I do have a family member with MRSA. It is a horrible disease. Once you have you can't get rid of it. Be careful!!!!!

Don't forget to wash the cell phones too as daily cleansing!!!!!!!

If Anything, Money should cause skin infections. Thats got more jerms on it than anything. With the passing of it from person to person. How many of them don't wash there hands that often. Than pay with there money. Boy, that a jerm passer.

I can't stand it when people comment on things as if they're so much smarter than the researchers or whoever the article is about and they can't even spell correctly themselves.

Before cell phones people used public telephones and they must have had many more germs with so many people using the same phone. I don't remember it being a problem. We have become so germophobic.

TALK ABOUT GERMS WE TRY TO KEEP THEM DOWN BY WASHING OUR HANDS AFTER USING THE BATHROOM. BUT FAIL TO REMEMBER THE ONES THAT DONT WASH THEIR HANDS TOUCH THE SAME DOOR HANDLE YOU DO WHEN LEAVING "NASTY"

YUCK! Sounds like the answer here is to use a bluetooth device. I can't live without my phone, and I don't share it (only with my boyfriend), but try a bluetooth! Once you go bluetooth you never go back.

I always dissinfect my phone with a clorox wipe...everyone should do the same

Believe it or not, since cell phones have been out I have heard a good maybe 100 guys using the cellphones in the toilet with them as they take "a dump." I'm usually at the urinal. Only about less than 10 of them have stopped at the sink to wash their hands. Even of the 10, they still didn't stop talking on the phone. I'm wondering if this is how that eColi Spinach outbreak started by some guy taking a cell phone into the bathroom. This is just plain nasty. It hasn't happened in the bathroom of a restaurant yet. If it did, I'd run out of there and never visit that restaurant again unless I wanted to die. Even if he didn't work at that restaurant, he has to touch the door knob or door handle to get out of there. Think about it and how many germs he could spread to make people die.

The reason why it wasn't such a big problem waaaay back in the day of public phones is that handwashing was something that was taught and expected to be performed even in the school system. In these litigation laden days, if a teacher suggested a child wash their hands, some parent might "freak out" ranting how their child was singled out and sue, so I don't think schools bother anymore....

But, for some reason many people seem to think that washing one's hands after going to the bathroom or before preparing a meal isn't necessary. I guess they have to SEE poop on their hands before realizing their hands "might" be germy and making the big decision to wash up.

Go figure.

Due respect to Professor Gerba and the study, but this is just another piece of useless information. Who funded this study? The maker of one of the products being promoted to make our lives germ free? The practical approach to personal hygiene is soap and water applied to the hands when returning home and before eating.

Ralph Garcia says:
Believe it or not, since cell phones have been out I have heard a good maybe 100 guys using the cellphones in the toilet with them as they take "a dump." I'm usually at the urinal. Only about less than 10 of them have stopped at the sink to wash their hands. Even of the 10, they still didn't stop talking on the phone. I'm wondering if this is how that eColi Spinach outbreak started by some guy taking a cell phone into the bathroom. This is just plain nasty. It hasn't happened in the bathroom of a restaurant yet. If it did, I'd run out of there and never visit that restaurant again unless I wanted to die. Even if he didn't work at that restaurant, he has to touch the door knob or door handle to get out of there. Think about it and how many germs he could spread to make people die.

LOL I was beginning to think I was the only one that had issues with this type of behavior. I remember being in the lady's room years ago (when cell phones were much more expensive and fewer people had them) a woman in the stall next to me was peeing, she answered the phone!! I was STUNNED!!

Just like the men Ralph mentioned in his post, if some man called me while he was "taking a dump" I can tell you that that phone conversation would be extremely short as in "I can't believe you would call me while going to the bathroom", say good bye and to not call me again.

People only mention doorknobs, don't forget about the faucet handles. Some people just run their hands under water for a quick blast and that does NOTHING. I turn them on normally, but when it comes time to shut them off and they require twisting, I use my papertowel to shut the water off, then use the same papertowel to open the door if there is a knob. No papertowel? Then I use TP...maybe management will get the hint!

AOL is yanking the germaphobe chain today,
Just ask yourself this, how have we manged to have the phone for over 100 years without any discernable fatalitys?
Of course AOL would like you to go to one of its sponsors for your cleaning needs, they want you to run not walk to the Germicide aisle and buy buy buy ! In reality you should not avoid germs or you will never build up immunities when you need them and get sick all your adult life. Let your kids play in the dirt, it's good for them.

Its true. About a year ago i broke out on one side of my face. My dermo told me that it was probably because of the germs phones carry. I began cleaning my phone weekly and guess what....problem solved.

Ive also done some research and am able to say...If public phones are touching your face then you maybe using it wrong, its also why you look at the reciever before you put it to your ear.
Money...you would be suprised how much dirt you would wash off your hands just after 30 mins of handling money. Thats would be why i dont eat or tounch my face if i handle money.

And door handles...we all know about

I took microbiology when I went to nursing school and you would be "OCD" if you knew what I knew and saw what I saw! Don't let this cell phone article frighten you too much because, the cultures we took for experiments and colonie growth for bateria and culture studies would make you want to live in a bubble because, the entire surface of everything in this world is contaminated with some sort of viral or bacteria substance at all times. Just have good hygene, wash your hands, and drink plenty of weater to flush out any toxicities in your body and you should be just fine. Keep your immune system in good health and your body will be able to fight off most of the infectious micro organisms. Yes, cleaning you cell phone is a good idea! Cleanliness in all areas will keep you at a lower risk of just about any culprit from bacteria to allergins such as dust and dander,etc.

My cell phone does not give me a rash,but 411 like this sent to me sure does!

OMG dis is scary..now i think we all need to start carrying around a pack of those alcohol mini-pads whenever we use a/our fone?!?!?!

Maybe it's the chemicals they use to
manufacture some of these cheap cellular phones, it's not like the Feds inspect the ingrediants in these phones from China, they could be made out of anything.
Don't go out and buy a bunch of Germicides, thats what AOL's sponsors want you to do.
No, germs in the phone are not going to kill you.
Let your kids play in the dirt, it's good for them.

You germophobic neat freaks are sad but I guess
you are wired that way. My best friend was a germophobic neat freak and he always had something, finally a viral infection killed him.
I'm convinced that some city types unknowingly
lower their immunity to common bugs because they haven't been exposed to them. They keep themselves in a sterile environment and don't build up immunities to common bacterias when they are young. Enough said..JD

Germophobic.....YES, I agree with Rose, if we aren't spending money on it, they come up with a way to get us scared into spending the $$$ on endless, needless things, and the worry it causes......no wonder our kids are a MESS!!!!!