The internet has been buzzing after a man issued a warning about the small marks often found on public restroom toilet paper.
Dane Jones, a US-based content creator, turned to TikTok to reveal the revelation that these small indents are created by drug users who use the paper to clean their needles.
He shared a video on TikTok and encouraged viewers to share this little-known risk with their family and friends, emphasizing that it "could save their lives."
In the video, which has garnered over 6.7 million views, Dane shares an image of a toilet paper roll with tiny pinpricks indented on the side. Using a green screen to superimpose his face over the image, he delivers his message.
In his video, he explained: 'If your toilet paper looks like this in a public restroom you need to get out as fast as possible.
'If you look closely you will see a bunch of tiny red blood splotches. That is not from someone's bloody nose or little accident.
'It's from someone cleaning their needles - dirty needles to be exact.
'We don't know if this was one person or multiple people cleaning their needles from injecting drugs.'
He warned that if you use this toilet paper to clean yourself, it takes just one tiny drop of blood to enter your system, making it easier for your body to contract viruses like HIV/AIDS, hepatitis C, and hepatitis B.
However, Your chances would be pretty low to catch HIV because according to statistics, everyHowever, you must be careful, because public restrooms are being used as a cleaning place for people's dirty needles.
However, the chances of contracting HIV are relatively low because, according to statistics, only "300 health care workers accidentally stuck with a needle from someone with HIV get infected." Nevertheless, one must be cautious, as public restrooms are being used as a cleaning place for people's dirty needles.
He added: 'However, for hepatitis B, the odds can be as high as one in three if the worker has not been vaccinated.'
Dane urges everyone to take action if they come across a toilet paper roll in a public restroom that exhibits these marks. He also encourages viewers to immediately notify the staff but to also keep a considerable distance from it.
This revelation has shocked viewers, and many have expressed their gratitude to him because his sharing could save lives.
One person said: Well, thanks to my lifelong phobia of public toilets I make sure I won't have to use them. A personal good luck with my organs...
A second disagreed: You won't catch HIV from that - it requires infected body fluids to be put inside your body. Wiping your butt with a bit of toilet paper will not do it.
A third wrote: We are in the UK and call them toilets - not bathrooms or restrooms. (I'm from the US and even I know that, so the DM certainly should!!) Also, those large toilet roll dispensers are covered up and can only be opened with a key that the cleaner/staff has.
Someone else wrote: Right, that's it for me now, I'll drip dry from henceforth if I don't have my own tissue, I try to avoid using public toilets anyway.
Another said: I walk through a shopping center daily on my way to work, and there has been blood on the door handles for at least a month that hasn't been cleaned. Makes me wonder what other nasties are on the handles.
I would also call the paps if I ever found usable public toilets, with even toilet paper available! That's a sight mist people haven't seen for a long time! Another added.
