Description

"Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is a psychiatric anxiety disorder most commonly characterized by a subject's obsessive, distressing, intrusive thoughts and related compulsions (tasks or "rituals") which attempt to neutralize the obsessions" - (Wikipedia, 2007)

06 November 2007

Some interesting hygiene facts

  • One of the most germ ridden places in public is the ground floor button of a lift.
  • 30% of womens handbags contain 100million particles of faecal matter per square inch (from placing on toilet cubicle floor)
  • 26,000 microbes are on every square inch of a mobile handset
  • Womens toilets are more contaminated than mens - with teh middle cubicle being the most infected.
  • Swimming pools are laced with Sweat, Urine, Mucus, Saliva, Hair, Faecal Matter, Dead Skin
  • 85% of public toilets are cleaner than average kitchen worktop in britain.
  • Toilet bowls contain 49 bacteria per square inch - compared to 20,961 per square inch in an office.

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