Archive for July, 2009
Keeping Sanitation in Control
Not everybody may have known this fact, but according to researches, the dirtiest thing one can find inside a hotel room is not found in the bathroom but in the receiving or living area: the remote control.
As much as most people tend to prefer watching their favorite television programs while eating some popcorn, chips and any other kind of tidbits and food, they don’t tend to wash or clean their hands first before holding the remote control. Moreover, when cleaning the room, little things just like the remote controls are often neglected to be cleaned. Thus, bacteria and other microorganisms that can cause illnesses tend to grow and multiply on the remote control creating a greater risk of spreading some place else when another person or the same person who touched it touches other things. As this is not an impossible situation to happen in your own home, it is best to stop the spread of disease at its track.
The best thing you can do is to remember cleaning your remote control often. You can use a cotton swab and alcohol to clean around the buttons. If you don’t have an alcohol around, soap and water will also do. Just be careful not to wet the swab too much so that the liquid won’t get to the inside of the remote and damage its parts. You can also use antibacterial spray or sanitary spray to kill bacteria and other pathogenic organisms that are already present in it.