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What are some household chores people should do more often? (lemmy.ml)
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[โ€“] 8 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

Read a paper on this at some point, and this has become standard practise at home. Notice that visitting friends don't do this, so I thought about looking framing the paper and/or some figures showing those plumes after flushing (can't remember what paper it was but I guess searching pubmed for "toilet flushing" will easily give some appropriate results).

edit: OK "toilet flushing plume" did the trick and showed this marvel (see figure 2) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9732293/

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    I read it, and the big take away is that if you are out of the room in three seconds, no poop plume gets on you, personally.

    J/K that's true but I've always closed the lid anyway, 'cause it's just polite.

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  • [โ€“] 3 points 2 years ago

    Yeah I saw in the discussion that it is also not clear how it behaves with actual geval particles in the water. However I think multiple other studies have looked into spread of bacteria and viruses and showed this is found near a flushed toilet, but one recent review said the signs where there but it's not certain it's super significant for health. (If I remember correctly, i scanned them pretty fast in a coffee fueled random-interest vortex while I actually really wanted to get on with other things).

    Oh and I think it can also help with humidy and mold in toilets? Seem to recall my sister did a BSc project on this and actually gathered data in our home. No clue how significant this was tho.

    But yeah it's also just polite, good habit to have i.m.o.

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