Airborne spores while wiping?
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Airborne spores while wiping?
I have noticed that while wiping there's often little pieces of toilet paper that shed off and fly around, is it possible that if one of those landed in or on your mouth you could reinfect yourself? I know the spores can be airborne.
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
This sounds like a highly improbable scenario.
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
Stop looking on the toilet paper , stop looking in the toilet , stop imagining things that can't happen!!! You can't reinfect with something that already lives inside you , even if your treatment was successful I'm sure that spores are still left inside dormant and they can germinate again when your flora is unbalanced.
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
georgina, so your saying that you don't think its' possible for us to reinfect ourselves with our own spores?
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but just because you ingest a spore, doesn't mean that you will get sick with an active infection. As Georgina said, if you have the spore inside, an infection can happen if the good gut flora is knocked out of whack again. But, honestly you probably can pick up spores anywhere. And, I also would think that you would be shedding spores if you were still having D. I wouldn't worry about this too much, and just clean around the toilet properly. I can't believe I'm even saying this, but the chances of a piece of soiled toilet tissue hitting you in the mouth is most likely not going to happen as Allison said.
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
Agree. Try to stop worrying about improbable things.
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
Exactly Cody. My opinion is that nobody can't get rid of the spores unless they decide to drink some bleach , but we can't do that . Spores can't be killed with antibiotics , so yes , if you already have spores in your guts , how can you reinfect yourself with something you already have???
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
I recon that it will not be long before you ask if farts are a source of infection:-)
When I was a kid we used torn up newspaper or rich people used Izal.
Not much got airborn in those days.
Ask a silly question, you get a silly answer!
When I was a kid we used torn up newspaper or rich people used Izal.
Not much got airborn in those days.
Ask a silly question, you get a silly answer!
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Re: Airborne spores while wiping?
You crack me up Roy :))
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