Do you wash your hands...

[okayokaywhatsnext]

...with hot soapy water after every single wee INCLUDING night wees?

I don’t. DH thinks ‘everyone’ does. But he’s lived with me for the last 11 years so I’m not sure how he knows about ‘everyone’.

Yes but I don’t during the night I barley remember even going as I’m half asleep

A night wee means walking into dark bathroom, exposing bum, sitting, weeing, cover bum, back to bed. Most of it with my eyes closed.

I don’t touch anything except my clothes.

I don’t wash the backs of my thighs that have come into contact with the toilet seat either.

A lifetime of insomnia, sleep will be preserved at all costs.

Do you not wipe @ChanklyBore?

As a man who has used many pub/service station/airport/shopping centre toilets over the years I have bad news for you lady’s.

My anecdotal evidence is that less than 20% of men who use urinals wash their hands, and mainly it’s a token splash with cold water.

Those who use the cubicle and so flinch the locks and flush handle, the figure might raise to 50%

This honestly varies on the type of establishment, where in the world (or even country you are) and how much people have had to drink.

Shoe laces and bottoms of jeans regularly get wet with pools of other men’s wee and then come back in the same taxi as you to your house and when you get home your other half or son untie their shoes to take them off.

You are mostly going to get yeses here as people won't admit to not doing it. Just go into public toilets and check if people wash their hands. Most don't or don't do it properly. You have your answer

You are mostly going to get yeses here as people won't admit to not doing So true

@Rebootingagain that’s all a bit far removed from having a wee in your own home in the middle of the night.

No I don't but MN isn't the place to ask - hygiene standards are very high here!

there are always people hard of thinking on threads like this. I can't imagine how awkward it must be to have such a lack of basic understanding

Nope. Not hard of thinking thanks. Nothing wrong with my 'basic understanding'. I just have a different opinion than you, but frankly, having a different opinion than someone who decides whether to wash their hands after sex depending on whether their partner is Male or female I can live with quite happily

@okayokaywhatsnext
It is, but show that worrying about whether you was your hand in the middle of the night in your own house after a wee is pretty futile when you consider what else you touch everyday of your lives.

You might want to quit the ‘you lady’s’ thing.

Yes, why wouldn't you?
Not weeing on your hands and urine is sterile doesn't convince me either. Urine doesn't remain sterile after it leaves the body.

No but I live alone

Yes absolutely yes. Even if I haven't touched anything my hands have been near the toilet. That is reason enough for a hand wash.

Urine is sterile.

It's really not.

frankly, having a different opinion than someone who decides whether to wash their hands after sex depending on whether their partner is Male or female I can live with quite happily

My god you are a misery. Have you never heard of a joke?

Sorry, forgot to add the disclaimer:

Lighthearted (joke) been married 20 years. To a man. No woman sex taking place.

Absolutely yes - and I live alone!

Yes, cold water though as the hot tap growls loudly when u turn it on.

I have recently learned that dp of 19 years does not... not envy but vom

Ew. Yes. You touch the toilet you wash your hands.

Yes

Urine doesn't remain sterile after it leaves the body.

Urine isn't sterile inside the body either.

Oh yes! I can't control what my hands do in my sleep, I could have them in my mouth or anything

Not after night wees no! Daytime - 99% of the time, unless I'm in a hurry or something, but I normally do. (And as I drink loads of water, I wee about 100 times a day!!!!)
I always wash my hands after touching things when I'm out, after touching something from the outside, in between cooking and stuff, I definitely don't need to be told to wash them more often, let's put it that way.

Yes! Wouldn’t occur to me not to. Some people don’t?! Ugh. 🤢

*And we wonder why diseases spread......

If you flush, the toilet handle will potentially have traces of e-coli etc. Cytomegalovirus can spread through urine.*

Ummm.... no- I clean like a maniac, so my toilet handles are not that dirty. I zoflora them a few times a day, when I'm at home, in between uses.

We're talking about someone at home! If you clean, and are clean overall, you have less chance of picking up any germs from your own environment, surely???