Everyone experiences the reluctance of entering the public bathroom. People consider an ideal bathroom as a clean, fragrance filled room, with shiny walls. However, this is most likely not the case. They are often met with unpleasant and pungent odors of urine, feces and fungi. The fetid odor evades people from bathrooms, which will lead to unhealthy choices like evading the bathroom. “It is like keeping your trash in your house for a long time,” my mom said, a prominent nurse currently working in Lincoln Hospital Bronx and North Shore Hospital at Forest Hills. “Holding your urine in may cause cystitis and urinary tract infection, while keeping your feces in would cause constipation and abdominal discomfort which could even lead to poor appetite. You must eliminate the waste products of your body as soon as possible, and it is unfortunate to see people risking their health and having a hard time getting rid of their waste just because of dirty bathrooms.” Sadly, even though you take the plunge and decide to use the stinky bathroom, health risks do not end. As you grab the handle or doorknob of the door, you are exposed to millions of germs: staph, E.coli, enterococcus, hepatitis A virus, streptococcus, common cold virus, shigella bacteria and more. According to numerous scientists working at the World Health Organization, right as you sit down on the toilet, 150 kinds of bacteria invade your skin. As you touch the toilet paper dispenser, 220 different kinds of bacteria raid your hands. Even while you flush, twenty bacteria jumps on your hand. Shockingly, while you wash your hands, the tap has 1000 bacteria and the sink has 50000 bacteria living which could enter your body and harm it. Even though you wash your hands cleanly, the dirty public bathroom would contaminate you thoroughly. Unhealthy germs are not the only issue for public bathrooms. I personally had a bad experience in the bathroom that everyone could sympathize with