NEW HEALTH FINDINGS RELATED TO CELL PHONES

A New Health Alert has been released by The British Association of Dermatologists (BAD) further establishing findings from earlier reports that cell phones can act as germ harboring perti dishes for thousands of bacteria from our hands, faces and all the places our cell phones touch and travel throughout the day.

These are quite compelling reports considering how much we all handle our phones. For those of us who take care to maintain a healthy lifestyle and good personal hygiene, who wash our hands and faces and are mindful of the environments we come in contact with, learning that our trusted cell phones can be one of the dirtiest items we handle all day is alarming.

KEYBOARD GERM CHALLENGE

Find out the total number of germs on your keyboard. Then just imagine how much bacteria can be on cell phones!!!

Answer a few questions here to find out how many germs are on your keyboard right now! We can learn from the questions asked about what factors affect how dirty our computer keyboards, and cell phones can get. Take keyboard germ challenge now!

We should make a germ quiz for cell phones (based on monthly minute usage, texts, data plan, touchscreen and other factors).

When taking the quiz, replace keyboard with cell phones and imagine how dirty our cell phones can be. AND...we don't hold our computer keyboard next to our face for 20 minutes at a time like we do our cell phones!

Help get the word about germs and bacteria on cell phones by telling your friends and family about this...or direct them to www.areyoutalkingdirty.org