Do You Wash your Hands After Using the Toilet?

scheming_gypsy

I wash mine before having a wee. He's a hell of a lot cleaner than my hands

Peater

Ok, here's one for you:

I tend not to use soap unless my hands are visibly grubby. This is because i have eczema on my hands and most soaps rip them to shreds meaning i will then need to spend the next few hours furiously moisturising them. What can i do short of carrying around my own soap?

Lotus-eater

Peater wrote: »

Ok, here's one for you:

I tend not to use soap unless my hands are visibly grubby. This is because i have eczema on my hands and most soaps rip them to shreds meaning i will then need to spend the next few hours furiously moisturising them. What can i do short of carrying around my own soap?

Use a pencil to hold up your old man.

Then don't put it behind your ear.

TeamLowe

i read somewhere ages ago (so have no evidence to prove it) that actually you don't *need* to wash your hands after going to the toilet, it's no more dirtier than any other task, after all there's all that about there being more germs on your phone than on your toilet seat, what you need to be doing though is washing your hands regularly throughout the day. so people are told to wash after the toilet cos it's easy to remember and convenient cos the sinks are right there, and it is something you do several times a day.

Peater

Crumbs, it's long but not that long!

BitterAndTwisted

Depends on how long the pencil is, innit. Could be a stub borrowed from your grandad. I had a rather different picture in my mind than supporting the old fellow lengthwise. But tricky I reckon. You could get splashes over all sorts.

Lotus-eater

BitterAndTwisted wrote: »

Depends on how long the pencil is, innit. Could be a stub borrowed from your grandad. I had a rather different picture in my mind than supporting the old fellow lengthwise. But tricky I reckon. You could get splashes over all sorts.

I agree shaking it could be problematic.

I suppose you could put on a surgical glove when you went into a public toilet, but you're more likely to get something else offered to you then.

What someone needs to come out with, is a small penii lasso, which you can hold without having to touch your manhood.

Peater

I once met a midget/dwarf in a pub who had a miniture crow-bar type device that he used to fish the old man out of the trouser as he could'nt reach with his litle arms. Perhaps something similar?

Saturnalia

I always wash my hands with soap after the loo, but seeing the number of people who don't makes me think I'm wasting my time as I then have to touch a door handle with someone else's crud on it. I usually come out of a public/work loo & spray my hands with sanitiser after opening the doors. (But then again, I'm wasting time & effort washing if I'm going to use gel a minute later, but I wouldn't feel properly clean without the soap & water part.)

(I also see women coming out of the cubicle & fixing their make-up or putting on creams before washing hands - no, wrong way round! Always wash your hands before sticking them in your cosmetics!)

The problem for me at this time of year isn't toilet bugs but cold/flu viruses. People blow their noses or sneeze on tissues then touch things without washing their hands and the ilnesses are spread via door handles, grab rails on buses, etc. I have a poor immune system where a cold that would leave you feeling a bit snivelly for a few days will have me in bed for most of a week. It's really not fun. I try to use hand gel when I'm out and about, but forget it once and that's me done for.

reheat

mumcoll wrote: »

OH was in the toilets in supermarket, sees a bloke come in, have a wee then walks straight out without washing his hands. Goes straight to the cafe and picks up a tray and goes in the queue to buy food. :eek: No wonder there are so many bugs about. I feel I have to carry handwash gel to compensate for the dirty mingers who behave like this!

I'm sure most people wash their hands after going in the toilets..... don't they?

Yes I do, and properly with soap as well as water ... some blokes seem to just do a token rinse! Unfortunately there are quite a lot of men (don't know about women) who don't was their hands at all, some of them not even if they've just done the full business. I tend to glare a bit at them. I knew a sales manager once who did exactly this, and then off he went shaking hands with customers straight after ... mind you he did have a well deserved reputation as the company aerosol.