Do You Wash your Hands After Using the Toilet?

scheming_gypsy

Person_one wrote: »

But the rest is honestly just very very silly for a person in normal health. I and millions like me go around every day touching door handles, money, toilet flushes, railings, items in shops, heck I pick up dog poo several times a day and am forever fishing tennis balls out of muddy puddles! We aren't all constantly battling deathly infections!

that's because we go around touching germs. If we ran around washing our paws everytime we touched a door handle we'd constantly be at the doctors because we've no resistance to anything,

onlyroz

I wash my hands, but I think using paper towels to open the doors is a bit extreme. A few bugs are good for us, doncha know?

Lotus-eater

euronorris wrote: »

So, with the toilet seat quite far down the lists, washing our hands after using the toilet isn't anywhere near as important as changing our kitchen sponges regularly.

Quite, that was a good episode

What your results chart doesn't tell us, is that the differences weren't just small, they were massive! The kitchen sponges were off the chart!

You just have to go and smell most dishclothes or sponges, ugh, I stick mine through the dishwasher every few days.

Lotus-eater

Person_one wrote: »

I'd have thanked it if were still up.

Is that a pun?

euronorris

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Quite, that was a good episode

What your results chart doesn't tell us, is that the differences weren't just small, they were massive! The kitchen sponges were off the chart!

You just have to go and smell most dishclothes or sponges, ugh, I stick mine through the dishwasher every few days.

I know, they get very gross, very quickly!

So mine get replaced at least once a week, sometimes more often. I don't have a dishwasher, so mine is used a lot more, and I can't stick it in there to give it a wash. I don't think they'd stand a machine wash anyway.

Besides, it's less than a euro for a pack of 6.

Can't seem to get it through to OH's brother though. Last time I went to his, the sponge he had on the side absolutely reeked! He had a full pack under the sink too!!! :huh:_pale_

custardy

onlyroz wrote: »

I wash my hands, but I think using paper towels to open the doors is a bit extreme. A few bugs are good for us, doncha know?

why botherwashing your hands, if you touch a handle after someone who didnt?

rachbc

ewww I'm chucking my kitchen sponge when I get home. Only just started using a sponge and going to stop again. I'll go back to a cloth that gets replaced daily and washed at 60 then tumble dried.

I never knew so many people used tissues to open doors - there are enough of us around who don't who are perfectly well to suggest its really not neccesary

Fizzpop

It never ceases to amaze me how many people are worried about germs, me personally i will wash my hands after a number 2 but if im only having a pee then im not too worried about it unless im doing something with food or the children after, but i spend half my life in the kitchen with my hands in water anyway.

Then you get the other extream my sister... i feel so sorry for her and her kids constantly washing their hands before they eat, before they go to the toilet, then after eating and going to the toilet if they get in a mess they are stripped washed and put in clean clothes then she wonders why they are constantly poorly and have allergies to all sorts.

As it has been pointed out urine is sterile, the only acception to this is when a person may have a water infection... also Urine has also been historically used as an antiseptic. In times of war, when other antiseptics were unavailable, urine, the darker the better, was utilized on open wounds as an antibacterial. So to all of you who carry around those stupid little bottles of antibacterial gel ..... why????? when you have your own perfectly good atibacterial handwash and its free very mse

Probably not that good an idea to go peeing on an open wound though just incase lol unless your a circumcised man

rachhh

I have an allergy to some types of soap, so if I forget to bring my own I can't wash but I'll always at least rinse. And I usually always have disinfectant hand gel on me that I can use, even if I forget my soap! Men though, hardly ever wash their hands, which I always find odd because they actually have to touch *ahem* down there to go for a number 1 so if anything they need to wash their hands more!

Carrole

Hi mumcoll,
I always wash my hands after using the toilet as we got germs from toilet and must wash our hands after wash room and before eating.