There’s a sick reason why you should never use your phone on the toilet

We all know the feeling.

Heading off to the bathroom for a few minutes or hours depending on what kind of day you're having and what you've just eaten. Needing something to occupy your mind while you chill out for a bit and let nature take its course. The logic option is always to take your phone in there with you, have a bit of a scroll through Twitter, maybe like a few Instas. The world is your oyster and you're merely sat on the toilet. Stunning. Even if the scenario doesn't play out exactly like this, chances are that we've all been there. Whether it was a sneaky look at your emails or a full on Facebook lurk of the lad you just shifted in the bar, you've done it and it's happened. Here's why it shouldn't though. A lot of the time when people use the toilet, faeces are involved. And while these faeces are not coming into direct contact with your phone at any point (we hope not anyway), that doesn't mean that their particles cannot travel - especially when the toilet is being flushed. All those germs exit the toilet, attach themselves to your device, and then you're walking around with faeces phone for however long. Yeah, grim isn't it? After all, we all wash our hands after using the bathroom but do we wash our phones? No. We don't. Even worse is the fact that these particles can then travel into your mouth if you're using your phone to make a call later. According to The Sun, these bacteria can then get into your system and make you extremely sick - it's not just nasty lads, it can also be detrimental. That's not the only reason we should be wary either because apparently all this sitting around when we don't need to be can screw up our bodies too. According to The Rooster, if we're spending 30 minutes on the toilet instead of the regular 10, our guts can get confused and associate long periods of time with going to the bathroom instead of short ones. This extended amount of time reserved for sitting can also apparently cause haemorrhoids which really isn't worth the hassle in fairness. C'mon lads, we can do without the Insta scroll for a couple minutes at least.