Do You Wash your Hands After Using the Toilet?

BitterAndTwisted

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Can't work out the significance of the person who makes a point about washing her gloves/scarf etc. - isn't this just normal laundry?

I don't worry about filthy germs on lavvy flush-handles because I'm just about to wash my hands, innit.

Cor blimey, there are probably more manky germs in the air we breathe every day than on a public loo-seat. If we were that worried about germs and viruses it would probably be safer to just stop breathing and be done with it. Millions and millions of years of evolution have given us resistance to most things that could cause us harm. Flashing about a bottle of that hand-sanitiser is pretty pointless and useless imo unless you're handling ordure on a regular basis as part of your job and you want to eat your lunch-time butties and you have no access to soap and hot-water.

About the washing of winter mufflers: it would be normal laundry if you washed them at the end of winter but this person washes them "regularly" and that poster has already said that they wash their hands after opening the post so I dread to think what exactly it is that they must be so afraid of. Typhoid and cholera are pretty rare in this country so I've heard.

Still, all this is a very interesting discussion nonetheless.

moomoomama27

I always wash my hands! I think it's utterly disgusting the people who don't!

I was at the theatre with the children last week, and the amount of women who walked out of the loos without washing their hands was so high! I saw 2 of them tucking into ice-cream, peeling the lids off for their children, in the interval!

Shark wrote: »

When I see people with those little anti bacteria gels I shake my head, no wonder pharmaceuticals have some of the highest profits in the world.

Please consider for a moment, that those gels for some people are essential! When my Mum was going through chemo last year. Before I touched her or her stuff, I had to use the gel, and carried it around with me for a while after her chemo had finished. She had NO immune system, and we had to be very, very careful!

3v3

Makes you wonder how we've survived all these years

Lotus-eater

moomoomama27 wrote: »

Please consider for a moment, that those gels for some (but not many) people are essential! When my Mum was going through chemo last year. Before I touched her or her stuff, I had to use the gel, and carried it around with me for a while after her chemo had finished. She had NO immune system, and we had to be very, very careful!

I've just highlighted the most important words there

moomoomama27

Lotus-eater wrote: »

I've just highlighted the most important words there

I would agree, but without first asking, how does anyone know!

Lotus-eater

moomoomama27 wrote: »

I would agree, but without first asking, how does anyone know!

Know what? I don't go around touching people willy nilly (not since the unpleasantness at the fancy dress party) so I'd expect people to tell me if they had a problem before holding their hand out.

moomoomama27

Lotus-eater wrote: »

Know what? I don't go around touching people willy nilly (not since the unpleasantness at the fancy dress party) so I'd expect people to tell me if they had a problem before holding their hand out.

Know the reason why someone is using the gel, to shake their head at them!

chewynut

As part of the food hygine course I did, you rub that weird cream into your hands before putting them under a black or UV light to see how dirty they are.

I scrubbed my hands six times in a row in very hot water for over two minutes each time. I used several different types of soaps and even VERY strong anti-bacterial handgel afterwards.

I followed every patronising diagram they show you for how to wash your hands yet my hands never came up perfectly clean. I keep my nails very short and I don't get many cuts. And still they had bits that wouldn't come up clean after twelve minutes.

Does anybody wash their hands for twelve minutes at a time?

Strangely enough, I haven't died yet so clearly having a few germs on my hands probably isn't going to kill me.

Lotus-eater

moomoomama27 wrote: »

Know the reason why someone is using the gel, to shake their head at them!

I think the few people that need it, will survive a little head shaking after what they've been through.

mumcoll

I'm loving the replies on here, some of them make me think I'm quite normal with the handgel in my handbag -not just anti-bacterial but anti-viral to kill the bugs that may make me sick. Some of them however, are reinforcing my need to open doors with my sleeve etc.

I laugh at my obsessiveness sometimes (when I'm not freaking out about it). If I'm really bad I use serviettes to pick up salt and pepper containers if I eat out. (See, I will eat out....) I worked in a hospital for a while and if I bought something in the shop when I knew there was the norovirus around, I would wash my change that I came out with. And don't get me started on dishcloths!:eek: