Toilet scrolling: Are you playing havoc with your health?

LONDON: Loo time was once considered “me time”, but that has also been taken over by our mobile phones. What’s important to remember is that taking your phone to the loo can make you really sick. Here’s why.

According to medical experts, most of us take our phones to the toilet to avoid missing out on important texts, mails, or calls. They added that our day starts with checking our mails, texts, and social media accounts, and we don’t want to miss out on that for even a single minute.

While the convenience of having a smartphone at our fingertips is undeniable, there are compelling reasons to reconsider this habit. Let’s understand why one should not take their mobile phone to the toilet.

Contamination is the biggest risk

If you take your cell phone to the toilet, there are chances that your phone gets covered in germs. There are germs everywhere in your loo, be it your toilet seat, paper roll or even the door knob. So, you can get diarrhea, intestinal illnesses, and urinary tract infections etc.

Basically, when you take your phone to the loo, you spend more time there, and expose yourself to germs.

It can lead to UTI

If you take your cell phone to the toilet, there are chances that your phone gets covered in germs. There are germs everywhere in your loo, be it your toilet seat, paper roll or even the door knob. So, you can get diarrhea, intestinal illnesses, and urinary tract infections etc.

Using mobile in the toilet can disrupt your stool time

Using your phone in the toilet can meddle with your body response to stools. You should not sit in the toilet for more than 10 minutes, but with a cell phone in your hand, the time can extend to 20-30 minutes, which can create problems in your pooping process.

It can make you constipated

This can also cause constipation, as your body becomes accustomed to working with a very long and unnatural timeframe in the bathroom.

It can lead to hemorrhoids

Also, your casual 30-minute time in the washroom can lead to hemorrhoids, as the body gets confused and becomes accustomed to long sessions in the bathroom. Hemorrhoids are basically inflamed veins near your anal area that can bleed, and can feel super itchy and painful.

It can stress you

Your time in the toilet is sometimes the only time when you take a break from your work and busy life. When you take your phone with you, you miss giving a break to your brain. You are always consuming information, and that can stress you.

You end up wasting time

Most of us think that we save our time by taking the phone to the washroom, but it is actually a waste of time. What can be done in five minutes takes more time to do. Also, if you take five minutes to pee or poop, you take much longer when you have your phone with you

 You might lose your phone and all the important information

If you take your mobile to the loo, then you can’t deny the chances of it getting dropped in the pot. And if it does, then you can lose access to important calls, texts, emails, saved information, etc. as your phone will be dead.

So, a loo break is a must, but give a break to your phone as well.

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