PUBLIC TOILETS CAN BE INFECTIOUS

(© 7 May, 2012: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan)

Do you feel comfortable to sit over the toilet pram, if it happens to be a public facility?

I don’t think anybody would prefer to do so, unless it happens to be exceptionally clean - such as in Star Hotels and in some of the Government offices in the developed countries. 

(Whenever I read "STERILIZED" sticker stuck to the toilet in star hotels, I couldn't help thinking that the toilet cleaners / housekeepers are not scientists to know what exactly the word 'sterilization' means.)

Upon entering into a toilet, you will be closing the door.

After this, whatever you do is not going to be noticed by others. 

You have full freedom to do anything you please.

When I have to use a public toilet, I look for the tissue roll. I tear off a few bits (feeling guilty all the time), spread them over the pram, and sit over it to ‘relax’.

If tissue papers are not available, I normally push back the pram, cautiously ‘climb’ up over the white China clay material, and squat to relax.  

However, you cannot do this while on an airplane, for several obvious reasons!

When you climb over the toilet, you have to be extra careful, lest your feet may slip off from its hold… and you may end up in a mess!  

Yet, since no one is going to watch you, you are still free to do whatever you wish…

I am slim. So, it is OK in my case to climb up and squat over the toilet.

How about those who are overweight or obese, or those who are not used to squatting even on a level ground?.

Those with knee pain tend to suffer even more!

The reason for avoiding to sit over a public toilet is based on the fear that we may get infected by any of the disease causing microorganisms.

The awful smell arising out of such toilets (especially in many under-developed or in some of the developing countries) and urine ‘spilled’ all over, etc. form much repulsive. 

This is mostly true for places in the tropics.

(Most of the public toilets, such as in Supermarkets in Malaysia are normally very clean. 

The toilets in most of the government offices in Malaysia appear to be very clean!  In fact, some of them are exceptionally clean!  

The toilets in the Malaysian highway rest places are very, very clean, indeed!

Since I have not explored all the toilets in the country, I must admit that there could be a few exceptions, which I may not be aware of!

However, I have to also admit that some of the road-side restaurants tend to have not-so-clean kind of toilets.

For this reason, even if the toilet happens to be somewhat 'dirty', if it is a squatting Asian type of toilet, it will be a lot safer!  We often have BOTH the types in many of the office buildings in Malaysia.

Nearly ALL household toilets in Malaysia are kept very clean, almost without exception - this can be judged after visiting a few homes at random.)

 In countries experiencing cold climate, the foul odour may not be there.

The chillness does not encourage most of the microbes to thrive in the toilets of temperate countries.

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In my previous article, I highlighted the various ecological factors that are very conducive for the existence of microbes.

Do you know what they are? 

They are:

1.    Moisture

2.    Warmth

3.    Darkness

4.    Nitrogen / Ammonia / Protein

5.    Stagnated air that is devoid of oxygen.

We now know that moisture comes from the urine or the water we use for cleansing.

Warmth comes from our defecated / voided matter, our body and the like, and it gets conserved when we close the door.

When we go away from the toilet, we tend to switch off the lights. 

The closed door too keeps the toilet dark. 

Urine provided the needed nitrogen / ammonia.

Inadequate ventilation + the closed doors conserve the oxygen-depleted air, filled with all sorts of gases.

All the above factors promote bacterial growth manifold, and that makes things worse.

In the tropics, most of the people, thinking it is fashionable, or that they are well-informed, close down the COVER that is attached to the toilet bowl itself.

This worsens the situation.

You can keep the bowl closed in Europe, Canada, New Zealand, and such countries.

However, you CANNOT do so in Malaysia, Singapore, Indonesia, india, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Langka, Myanmar, Vietnam, and such countries that experience nice warmth.

If you did cover the bowl, your toilet will certainly smell bad, besides being  bad for health.

When it comes to the main door at the entrance of the toilet in my house, I never close it. It is left open all the time. My toilets never emit bad odour.

If the main door of the toilet is kept open all the time, fresh oxygen-carrying air that enters into it will remove the bad odour in the first place, and dry up the entire area.

Since we have ‘broken’ this way several of the ecological factors that favour the existence of bacteria, our bathrooms will be very save, neat, and odour-free at all times.

If you happen to visit me, you can ‘borrow’ my toilet.

You will be very impressed, indeed!

Of course, in addition to the above ‘protection measures’, you can also hang there a deodorant bag.

(Sorry, I don't mean YOU, but the word hanging refers to the deodorant).

I would not recommend the use of aerosol sprays for the purpose, especially because it is bad for health.

Yet, it should be considered OK for occasional use - especially when you are going to hold a party or any such gathering in your residence.

Well, friends, 

I wish you a very happy and pleasant toileting, without any concern or worry about infections!

Bye for  now,

Sincerely,

Dr. Palani, Ph.D.

THE TRUE RISK FACTOR FOR ASTHMA

THE TRUE RISK FACTOR 

FOR ASTHMA

(©  1998, 2001, 27 February, 2012: Dr. V.M. Palaniappan, Ph.D)

Did you read last week’s news about Allergies and Asthma that was published in last week’s Journal of Biological Chemistry, released by Dr. Amir Chaem-Maghami and Professor Farouk Shakip, working in University of Nottingham, England.

I read it in Research News, dated February 22, reported by Savitha C. Muppala.

It seems a “new molecule they have found brings hope in the battle against allergies and asthma”.

The molecule is said to play a key role in the battle against the body’s allergic response to house dust mite.

It is true that many people with asthma are allergic to house dust mite.

My question is, why not make people healthy by preventing or curing asthma, rather than trying to find a solution for the asthmatics from becoming allergic to dust mite?

Read my book “Asthma, Bronchitis, Cough, Sneezing & Sweating”, wherein I have reported for the first time the true causes of all these diseases, along with methods for their prevention / cure.

I think, one should evaluate my new findings, put to test, see if they work, and if they do, accept them as truth.

Anyway, do you know what gives a person the Asthma?

Please see as how a healthy child gets bronchitis, in the first place.

A new born infant in the maternity ward / nursing room is often wrapped around with warm / winter clothing - even if the child in born in a country that has a tropical climate, such as in Malaysia, India, Indonesia, and the like.

Even the head is covered with woollen headwear. The hands are protected with gloves, and feet with socks.

Then, the baby is kept in an air-conditioned chill environment., wherein the baby breathes in the cold, dehydrated air.

(The air-conditioner dehydrates the moist air that may have very high relative humidity, and that instrument “urinates: it subsequently).

In this process, the lungs get totally depleted of its natural moisture and gets dried up.

In order to keep the lungs in a moist state, and being able to ‘understand’ why the dehydration occurs, the child’s brain regulates the body to secrete more and more moisture into the lungs’ environment.

In other words, as long as the baby is kept confined within the air-conditioned room, the quantity of moisture depleted from the baby’s lungs and the quantity of moisture that gets produced there will be in equilibrium.

As a result, the infant will be healthy, and it will be so as long as the he/she is in the nursing room.

Let us now see what happens when the infant is taken home:

In the tropical countries, we normally do not keep the babies in air-conditioned room all the time. (Yet, some elite families do keep in a/c rooms).

Since young mothers are trained to cover the baby with warm clothing, they continue doing so even at home, and in non-air-conditioned rooms.  

If the baby cries out of discomfort, the mother would feed the baby rather than remove the warm clothing.

Along with time, the baby gets used this discomfort.

Do you know what would happen at this?

The baby would sweat profusely.

The body would perspire, the feet and hands will become cold because of the profuse sweat.

In other words, the baby’s entire exterior becomes cold.

Let us understand what would happen under such conditions:

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Hot sun is shining.

We are seated inside a car.

It rains suddenly.

We raise the windows.

The car’s exterior turn cold. In other words, the outer side of the glass windows get cooler.

We breathe out warm MOIST air.

The moisture in the air will get CONDENSED on the INNER SURFACE of the windows, forming tiny droplets of water.

This is what exactly will happen to the child.

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The infant’s body is in a chill state because of the condensation of the sweat produced due to the warm clothing (or, hot climate that prevails in the room, or even due to the warmth created due to lack of proper ventilation).

The air breathed-in by the infant contains MOISTURE.
 

The moisture content is very high in Malaysia and several other countries where there are tropical forests.

A few countries, especially those in the temperate regions, tend to have very little moisture in the air. In other words, the air will be dry there.

Often, hill stations even in the Tropics tend to have moisture-free dry air.

If the air has plenty of moisture, we call it the Relative Humidity (RH) is very high.

In places where the RH is very high, your body will become 

(a) very sticky when you sweat , and this may necessitate taking frequent showers - at least twice daily, and 

(b) your body can emit the pungent smell of the sweat.

(The sweat smell, called body odour, will be unbearable if the person happens to under-urinate. See my book Obesity, and also Human Diseases).

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If and when the infant’s skin becomes chill, the MOISTURE in the inhaled AIR will CONDENSE in the LUNGS, similar to what happens in the car.

Such condensed water droplets will block the BREATHING HOLES, called Alveoli, present in the lungs.

The Oxygen from the INHALED air will have to be imbibed (taken in), and the Carbon Dioxide collected from various parts of the body will have to be pushed out. These two functions can happen only THROUGH the ALVEOLI - the breathing holes.
 

If the holes are blocked with water droplets, the air-exchanged will be impeded (i.e., disturbed).

By right, when air-exchange cannot occur, the baby should die within minutes.  

The brain does NOT allow the baby to die because of this small fault.

Therefore, as a rescue effort, the brain induces cough.

A single cough would remove the droplets (if you cough over a mirror, you can see thousands of tiny droplets over the mirror, showing that they are from your lungs).

When the alveoli in the lungs get cleared of the water droplets, the air-exchange will occur.

Unfortunately, after one cough, the water droplets close back the breathing holes almost immediately.

This necessitates several repetitions of the cough, so that the air exchange can continue to occur .

This process brings in what we call NAGGING COUGH.

This problem and ‘built-in’ remedy can occur in infants as well as in adults.

In other words, if you happen to have NAGGING COUGH, it would mean that your lungs are getting blocked by moisture droplets that have come there because of the condensation of the air-borne moisture.

(However, this may NOT occur in highlands and in temperate countries, for want of moisture in the air.) 

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This is how an infant gets BRONCHITIS. I suppose, the irritated lungs would produce phlegm as well.

If and when all the conditions that promote bronchitis prevail for a prolonged period - for several months, then, it becomes ASTHMA.

When a child / any person becomes asthmatic, then, such asthma gets triggered easily if any irritant enters into the lungs.

For instance, even pollen grains (from male flowers of plants) are inhaled, they tend to GROW inside the moist lungs, and that would create irritation.

If a carpet mite enters into the lungs though the dust we may inhale, that too would irritate.

These irritants are called ALLERGENS.

In fact, anything that can irritate, or any allergen, will give an attack of asthma.

Don’t you wonder as why someone who is NOT asthmatic does NOT get asthmatic attack even if he/she happens to inhale the same pollen grain dust mite?

This is so because his/her lungs’ alveoli are NOT blocked by water droplets, simply because these people URINATE nearly all the water they drink, and they do NOT sweat profusely.

In other words, those who UNDER-URINATE will definitely SWEAT PROFUSELY (= hyperhidrosis), and that will make their skin chill, and that again will enhance the condensation of moisture in the breathing holes of the lungs, thus giving him/her nagging cough, sneezing, bronchitis, and asthma.

This situation and these diseases, at their EXTREME, can give rise to PNEUMONIA as well.

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All the above being the truth, what can PREVENT the development of BRONCHITIS, ASTHMA and related diseases?

Let me explain within a ‘nutshell’:

Very naturally, IF YOU CAN URINATE REGULARLY all the water you drink, without holding your urinal pressure, through about 8 urinations daily, you will NOT develop any of these diseases, even if you happen to live in places where the RH is very high.

Then, how about a definite CURE?

A cure to this disease is also related to proper urination, proper water consumption, avoidance of hyperhidrosis (profuse sweat), wearing the right kind of cloth, avoidance of using fast-running fans and intensely cold air-conditioners, and the like.

I have explained very well, in an easy-to-understand manner, using a reader-friendly writing, a complete and proper method for the prevention and cure of all these diseases in my book ASTHMA, BRONCHITIS, COUGH, SNEEZING AND SWEATING.

Those interested in buying this book within Malaysia / Singapore can contact me. 

My e-mail ID is: vmpalaniappan@gmail.com

Others may have to wait until I market these books through Amazon.com.

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