To wonder why people/it’s considered normal to keep toothbrushes in bathrooms?

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Why is it considered normal for toothbrushes to be left in bathrooms, near toilets, poo particles just flying around. Even if everyone guest and children/husband remembers to put the lid down before flushing.. it’s still somewhere where people poo, why keep something you put in your mouth in there?!

Our toothbrushes live in the kitchen, I just load up with toothpaste, brush, then spit out in the bathroom, rinse toothbrush and return it to the kitchen.

AIBU to think in hindsight, the bathroom is a really weird unhygienic place to keep toothbrushes or am I being a bit germaphobey 🤣

Surely everyone has a room with just a sink in solely for brushing teeth?

Weird! My toothbrushes live in the bathroom cabinet. Do you have your bathroom sink outside the bathroom? If not, surely by your reckoning with all the ‘poo particles’ floating round, as soon as you’ve washed your hands you open the door by touching the door handle - which will be covered with poo!!

You're over thinking this.

Jesus Christ Angelina this took a turn

It’s true though. Happy enough to suck a cock but having conniption’s over toothbrushes in the bathroom🤷‍♀️. Another scenario. In a public shopping centre. Someone goes to the loo, does a poo, doesn’t wash their hands, goes out and puts their hands on the escalator handgrip. You are at the same shopping centre. You take the escalator and put your hands on the handgrip. You get their poo germs. You inadvertently touch your face etc. Absolutely nothing happens. Nothing. What a Mumsnet letdown🤣🤣🤣.

I keep my toothbrush totally naked and unprotected in my bathroom. It’s just not a problem. That said, it’s an en-suite and not a lot of shitting goes on in there.

My toddler put his brush down the loo and sucked it before I could stop him.. I was obviously mortified, but he wasn't sick (he's 17 now).

I don't think I have ever been harmed by these flying poo particles in all my years of keeping the brush in my tiny bathroom. It's usually in the cupboard and the loo lid is usually down I guess.

You’re not wrong. I once saw a programme (myth busters?) where they tested exactly this. Even toothbrushes in other rooms got a few faecal particles on them, and more in the bathroom.

Is it a significant source of sickness though?

@Coconutter24 - well, the fact that we aren’t all contracting hepatitis and other serious bugs from our toothbrushes or our bathrooms generally is why i don’t think there are poo particles flying all over our bathrooms.

Anyway, there are many things i worry about but i’ve reached my 50s without worrying about this and unharmed by any toothbrush so i’m not going to start worrying about this now.

Kitchen is worse I think. E Coli, salmonella, dirt off veg, bin and sink "flying particles," maybe even a cat litter box or dirty laundry? I'll take my chances with the bathroom.

We charge the brush handles in the kitchen as nowhere else to charge them. Brush heads stay in the bathroom cabinet.

Because I'm 58 and managed to survive 58 years of poo particles so far.

We keep them in the bathroom because that's where we brush our teeth. But the toothbrush heads are kept in the over the sink cupboard anyway, just the toothbrush itself is on its charger on the counter. Toilet lid always gets put down before flushing anyway, I've trained everyone in the house well.

People keep their toothbrushes in the bathroom because that's where they are used. Flush toilet with lid down and nothing to worry about.

@Exemptfromcontent to raise your immune system!

Convenience. After 50 plus years of brushing my teeth with 'poo particles' and being none the worse for it, I'm not going to start traipsing up from the kitchen with a loaded toothbrush just because it's been on the telly last week. There's probably more hazard to health stuff going on in the kitchen as in a bathroom you keep clean and where you take the precaution of closing the toilet lid before flushing.

Lordy if it was dangerous the entire population would be gravely sick or deceased over it?!

It is a bit grim if you think about it too much I suppose but I guess none of us have come to any harm over the years, I think keeping the toothbrush in the kitchen is a bit weird though

Ours are in a drawer in the bathroom. However, for decades growing up they were out and we all survived!!! 🤷🏼‍♀️

Tbh never thought about poo particles

have toothbrushes in both kitchen and bathroom

kitchen easier for school days and yes spit in the sink. Again no issues

bathroom for at night

Just because it’s never made you ill it doesn’t mean it’s not happening. It’s a well known fact poo particles go in the air when you flush hence why there’s a toilet lid. No one has said you need to start worrying about it, not many people do worry about it but it doesn’t mean it’s not happening with every flush

Most people keep there as it’s most convenient location. Just as people with electric ones need someone else to charge them.

I’ve never really thought about any illnesses by leaving them in the bathroom. I have a separate toilet now but haven’t always.

Presumably you’re inhaling these invisible poo particles? Unless you hold your breath every time you go into the bathroom.

I live in an older house where the toilet is completely separate to the bathroom. It had never occured to me as an issue before but this seems far more hygienic- my ablutions are kept separate from cleansing.

Now I just need to find a house we can afford with both this layout, and a utility/laundry room separate to the kitchen.

We live in small houses in the UK and necessity has made having shared functions for rooms that ideally we wouldn't have to share.

I know what you mean, although I've never got sick from it so must be ok

I've made it to almost 60 healthily, my parents in their 80s as did theirs whilst keeping our toothbrushes in the bathroom. I rather focus on matters that is known to have a direct impact on reducing lifespan. There are enough of the latter to keep my mind busy to add other matters that are irrelevant in contrast!