Coming directly to the point – Yes, mobile phones can be very dirty. Being dirty can be hazardous too.
Here know how your phone can make you sick. It carries many hazardous elements with it. And when you touch it and keep having food or cleaning your face, nose, eyes, mouth etc, you invite many inevitable living and non-living dirt inside your body. It carries many things viz.:
Bacteria
As just mentioned up here, your mobile phone can have up to ten times more bacteria than a toilet seat. In accordance with a study, approximately ninety four percent of phones show evidence of bacterial contamination.
Microorganisms
As per a study over twenty six health care workers, their phones were contaminated with eleven thousand one hundres and sixty three microorganisms. This includes bacteria, protists, fungi, viruses, and bacteriophages.
Antibiotic resistance genes
In the same study as mentioned up here, it was found that their mobile phone had 2,096 genes coding for antibiotic resistance and virulence factors.
Transmission
Researches also show that our cell phones can be a pathway for microbial transmission and this may be potentially contributing to the spread of infections in pandemics and epidemics.
Obviously you can make efforts to keep your phone clean. Here is how:
Phone cleaning
First of all moisten a cloth with a mixture of 40% isopropyl alcohol and 60% water. Then wipe down the phone with the cloth. Then bring a cotton swab and clean harder-to-reach areas with that.
As the second step utilize compressed air to clean problem areas of the phone. After this arrange a UV light sanitizer for destroying surface bacteria. Then use Lysol wipes, which are know as safe to use on electronics.
Finally, wear gloves and then start last cleaning on your phone with the cloth.
