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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 09:55 AM
Pemex potty stop? Study confirms your worst fears about public potties


link: http://vitals.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/10/19/8402117-dont-to...

By Bill Briggs
No. 1: A new study on the germ orgies going down in America’s public restrooms truly puts the “P” in repulsive, repugnant and “Hey, how awesome are my Depends?”

No. 2: If you can, maybe just hold it until you get home.




Yes, we’re talking about relieving those two basic bodily functions and doing so in some of most bacteria-bedecked spaces anywhere. As long suspected, bathroom surfaces in U.S. restaurants, airplanes, stores, hospitals and other busy locales are often heavily contaminated with illness-causing microbes – and, in some cases, the bug colonies are even too large to measure, according to a paper to be presented Friday to the Infectious Diseases Society of America in Boston.

“I was surprised (at the sheer quantity of creepy crawlies) but, at same time, I wasn’t surprised because people use these things and people touch things,” said Dr. Lennox Archibald, an epidemiologist at the University of Florida’s College of Medicine.

“It does make you step back a bit and stake stock of the whole hand-hygiene thing,” added Archibald, who will present the findings. “And yes, it could make one paranoid.”

From December 2010 through last February, Archibald and his colleagues swabbed and cultured faucets, paper-dispenser levers, and door handles inside the bathrooms of four aircraft and 18 other crowded spots such as fast-food restaurants. Names of the businesses were not released. Among the types of microscopic critters commonly discovered were staphylococcus (which can cause fevers and chills) and bacillus (which can cause diarrhea).

“For several restrooms, the quantity of microorganisms was too numerous to count,” Archibald’s paper reports. “…To date, there have been virtually no quantitative or qualitative assessments of the range of bacteria contaminating public restrooms.”

Given these invisible fecal fests, should we simply cross our legs, squeeze our thighs and endure the pain instead of accessing public restrooms?

“If you have to use it, you have to use it,” Archibald said. “You just have to be careful where you touch after you wash your hands.” Ideally, public bathrooms should be stocked with paper towels so that your skin needn't come into contact with anything yucky.

Then again, he added: “You can wash your hands till the cows come home. (If we swab your freshly scrubbed palms and culture the results), you are going to grow something.”

Bill Briggs is a frequent contributor to msnbc.com and author of “The Third Miracle.”




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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 11:30 AM


Another one of the many great reasons I carry a small baggie with baby wipes, hand sanitizer and tissue!!!

Great article!




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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 12:18 PM


For those who don't believe, I picked up a nasty colon infection in Baja a couple years ago. I stopped to do my thing at the Pemex in San Vicente while headed South. The next day for my morning glory my 6 o'clock was on fire with droplets of blood.

To make a long story short, the docs tried anti-biotics, cipro, then clyndamicine, and the latter did the trick.




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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:22 PM


Seems like there is a huge "Duh" factor in all this, but you have to be exposed to SOME microbes less your immune system fall into disrepair. I personally am pretty careful, but NEVER to my knowledge in 73 years have I "picked anything up" in a public restroom-----------(knock on wood) and have never resorted to any supplimental anti-septical practices, etc. :o

(what a grim subject) :rolleyes:

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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:37 PM


just don't touch anything!

paper butt gaskets are OK for sitting on potty, but if no disposable gaskets available, then perch or squat.

just don't touch anything!

p.s. i think there are very few women in the world that use public toilets without levitating above the seat - they should just convert all womens restrooms to squat hole toilets, would make women much more comfortable if they did not have to do isometrics in potty.
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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:41 PM


Goat----------as you know, the Chinese learned the wisdom (in this case only) of your words centuries ago. :lol:

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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:49 PM


Maybe it's all the backpacking I did growing up, but I head to the bushes every chance I get when faced with a public toilet of questionable cleanliness. In fact, I keep driving past 'em.

There IS more than one reason to carry an entrenching tool in Mexico.............
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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:49 PM


I just take dumps on the side of the road while in Baja. Coyotes love a good hardened turd.

My job on the US side requires me to visit gas stations every day. Ive trained myself to go at home before heading to work.

One thing ive learned in my line of work is the cleanliness of a gas station bathroom directly correlates to the quality of the gas station owner.




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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:51 PM
So...Where's that bathroom?


I know it ain't in Mexico because it comes with its own supply of TP. :rolleyes:



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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:55 PM


The Pemex at the bottom of the hill in Tecate is awesome. I'll post a pic if I ever get around to posting my pottery trip report.



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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 02:58 PM


I'm not sure what you guys are all on about. I routinely stop to eat my lunch off the toilet seat at the Pemex in El Rosario. Never once gotten sick.
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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 03:05 PM


someone please photograph the el rosario pemex restrooms and post pics here. anybody headed that way in next day or 3?

while you are at it, how about a pic of every pemex bano along the hwy 1 drive?
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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 04:28 PM


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someone please photograph the el rosario pemex restrooms and post pics here. anybody headed that way in next day or 3?

while you are at it, how about a pic of every pemex bano along the hwy 1 drive?


i'll try and remember to get a shot tomorrow around 11am. post up some stuff over the weekend.




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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 04:36 PM


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someone please photograph the el rosario pemex restrooms and post pics here. anybody headed that way in next day or 3?

while you are at it, how about a pic of every pemex bano along the hwy 1 drive?


i'll try and remember to get a shot tomorrow around 11am. post up some stuff over the weekend.


excellent!

i look forward to a trip report overflowing with banos!
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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 05:07 PM


do you prefer i get shots upon entering or exiting? or should i surprise you? this might actually end up being fun!

here's one to start with....

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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 05:33 PM


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do you prefer i get shots upon entering or exiting? or should i surprise you? this might actually end up being fun!

here's one to start with....


It's nicer to get shot's after the passenger buses coming from "El Sur" have stopped and let everyone make a head-call.
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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 05:37 PM


Would you get some shots of the motel next door?
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Quote:
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do you prefer i get shots upon entering or exiting? or should i surprise you? this might actually end up being fun!

here's one to start with....


don't care about exterior. want to see interior, and state of commode cleanliness.

if you have a DK doll, make sure to put in each photo, or at the least baja cactus pemex!.
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[*] posted on 10-20-2011 at 06:45 PM


The worst is the pemex gas station right near the entrance to san ignacio. enter at your own risk. even to take a photo.

disgusting doesn't begin to describe it.

we have started going to the La Pinta Hotel instead for a pit stop in San Ignacio.


A clean toilet is the pemex in santa rosalia on the left side as you get into town. a ways before the immigration office. I think the one on the right before you get into town is Ok too. We just always fill up either going north or south at the other one. It is an honest station gaswise.





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