Bringing one’s cellphone into the bathroom has become habit for countless individuals. However, people should consider leaving the phone behind when they make a trip to the toilet, simply because of the amount of germs present in a restroom. There are plenty of germ-covered surfaces in the bathroom where someone might lay down their phone. This is not the only danger though. When flushing without the lid down, bacteria spews out of the toilet and lands on nearly everything in the bathroom, including your cell. Cell phones are one on the most germy objects people touch in a day, but they could cut down on this by leaving the phone out of the bathroom.

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