I got this for my office mate, who is very concerned about leaving odors. It works really well. It is, however, pretty pricey, and I have found another product called “Fresh Drop” that costs less. There is always the risk that your coworker may not use this if she won’t use the air freshener.

My solution was to install occupancy sensors for the light and the fans in the bathrooms. The lights were set at 5 minutes and fans at 15 minutes. The only problem was the fan switch faced the doorway so every time someone walked by the fan came on. Now I had complaints about the fans coming on and the noise they created. I was about to have the fans replaced with ultra quiet fans when I came up with a cheaper solution. I put auto-close hinges on the doors. I set them to close the doors up to the door jam (not completely closed). If the door is closed, its in use. If its almost closed, its open for business.

This switches and spring hinges fixed the errant fan turn on problem and also solved the odor problem. The door closing most of the way keeps the odors in the bathroom and the fan stays on automatically to pull the odorous offenses out of the building.

I am totally going to order these for my office! We have several offenders and it makes the bathroom so bad that I actually have to use the fast food place down the street because if I don’t my eyes will burn and I will get sick. 🙁

(And yes, I made constant use of the “courtesy flush,” but when you have that level of gastro issue, it’s just not enough.)

I’ve been in the exact same situation (fortunately with a temporary gastro issue that ended after a few months), and it was humiliating to be on that end of it. But the unpleasantness suffered by the people who sat around the bathroom was a tradeoff that had to be made in order for me to be able to avoid an asthma attack sending me to the hospital after using that spray.