The surest way to catch a cold or flu is to catch the germs that caused it. This is a known fact that we all recognize. Knowing this, most of us take precautious measures to remove cold and flu “bugs” from our homes, especially when one or more family members begin coughing or sneezing suspiciously. If you ask around, most people will tell you that spraying “hot spots” (door knobs, telephones, sinks, toilets, computer keyboards and video game controllers, etc.) with a known disinfectant, washing your bedding in hot water, using a hand sanitizer and frequently washing your hands will eliminate germs and keep you and your family healthy. While these are all excellent precautions and should be done a regular basis, is it really working?
Colds are the most prevalent infectious disease in the United States and are responsible for more school absences than any other illness. There are over one billion colds in the United States and currently an estimated 25–50 million cases of the flu reported each year — leading to 150,000 hospitalizations and 30,000–40,000 deaths yearly.
With such staggering statistics, what more can we do to protect our family members and ourselves?
Sanitize Your Toothbrush!Why should you sanitize your toothbrush?
The answer is, simply enough, so we don’t get sick.
Many of us don’t consider the millions of microscopic germs and bacteria that are being removed from our teeth, gums, and tongue by our toothbrush when we brush- and few of us think about the fact that those disgusting germs and food particles continue to live, breed, and rot on the bristles of our toothbrush in between brushings.
We’ve known for a long time that germs cause disease and that we can protect ourselves by doing simple things like washing our hands and necessary things like sterilizing medical instruments.
But why hasn’t this wisdom been extended to our toothbrushes, which are FDA-regulated medical devices? For that matter, is there another medical device that comes into contact with the human soft mucous-membrane tissue that isn’t supposed to be sanitized before each and every use?
It is easy to see how the germs are spread around a room when a sick person is coughing or sneezing. Other times it is not so easy to spot the germs just waiting to pass the cold or flu virus your way. Needless to say, the mouth is one of the dirtiest parts of the body; not only are there millions of germs in there, it is the
prime portal for infection to enter the body, and it is a
major site of chronic and often undetected silent disease.
The bottom line is, every time we brush, we coat our toothbrush with millions of disease causing germs. Then we rinse our toothbrush under the tap for a few seconds, and throw it in the community cup with all the other germ-infested toothbrushes. We store that cup in the dirtiest room in the house- the bathroom- near the germ-laden toilet (a toilet with no trap which avails the room to sewer line gases each time the toilet is flushed) and sink, and we return to brush with the same toothbrush 6 to 12 hours later! We wouldn’t hang our forks or spoons in the bathroom exposed to bathroom vapors, germ laced dust and “bathroom bacterial mist”, but we have no problem doing this to our toothbrushes which are FDA regulated medical devices.
We are literally injecting toothbrush germs directly into our bloodstreams every time we brush with an unsanitized toothbrush.Are these germs a danger to your long-term health? Well, what do you think?
What does common sense tell you?When you really think about it, using an unsanitized toothbrush is a nasty, disgusting practice that makes absolutely no sense at all.
The Germ Terminator Toothbrush Sanitizer is an FDA-approved medical device, which means we had the Germ Terminator tested in three major in dependent laboratories. We tested the Germ Terminator against the common cold virus (rhinovirus), the flu (influenza), herpes (simplexes I and II), and E. coli among other disgusting germs that have been found on toothbrushes and the Germ Terminator passed every test.
