Commonly there is a trend of keeping toothbrush in the bathroom after brushing your teeth. But according to the researchers keeping toothbrush in the bathroom is harmful which no one have ever thought. Leaving the toothbrush in the bathroom has 60% risk of having stool particles attached in it. Moreover if many people use the bathroom then the risk of having stool particle attached in the toothbrush will be 80%. The students of the Quinnipiac University situated at Connecticut of America have done the research about it how the coli form bacteria present in stool get spread.
They found that the rod shaped coli form bacteria found in human stool spread while flushing and get attached to the toothbrush like things in the toilet through the medium of air. According to the researcher Lauren Abere, not only bacteria from your stool get attached to your stool but also have risk of attaching bacteria, viruses form the stool of other person. The attached bacteria, vireos or other microbes in toothbrush get inside the body while people use it to brush their teeth.Not only inside the body but the skin and ear like parts of the body also get infected by them.
During the research the toothbrushes from the bathroom used by at least 9 people were collected. There was found 60% of stool particle in them. According to the researchers 54.85 % of the toothbrush was found to have coli form. Similarly it was also found that 80 % of the stool particle in the brush was not from the owners stool but from others stool. So the researcher proving that the tooth brushed kept in the bathroom commonly used by many people have risk of having stool particles in them has suggested to take care of their healthy in better way.For this they have suggested that it is wise to keep the toothbrushes out of the bathroom

inside your room.

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