Do you wash your hands...

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...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’.

I have eczema too - washing hands is a thorny issue at this time!

Urine is normally sterile when produced in the kidney and stored in the bladder, but is likely to become non-sterile as it leaves the body.

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@Chillipeanuts
You know you should wash your fruits and vegetables? “

Indeed I do, which is why I said so

No. Maybe run the cold tap over them a bit. But mostly no. Never flush at night either unless I poo.

Do people get up to soap their hands every time they have a fanny scratch at night?

Urine is normally sterile when produced in the kidney and stored in the bladder,

No, it's not. That's a myth.

I had a discussion of sorts with a housekeeper who said she washed her hands before she went to the loo but not after, I couldn't understand her reasoning that it was better.

Good grief. Is the OP seriously asking this? Not washing your hands after peeing is gross. Irrespective of the time.

Uesnalways.
But as we have a shitty combi boiler at night I'm not waiting for the hot water to come through. I always use the hot to.out of habit. In the day I wait for hit water to come through but middle.of the night although it's coming out if the hot tapmits usually cold.

Always use use soap and have a good scrub.

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

Absolutely agree with this. Even on an anonymous forum, that peer pressure of respectability is harsh! From my anecdotal evidence I'd say it's a 50/50 split for women and much much less for men.

I wash after day pees and haven't so far needed to pee in the night (pelvic floor exercises after birth really do help ). DH does sometimes night pee but I sleep like a corpse and never hear anything so no idea if he washes his hands or not. He's first up in the morning and goes straight in the shower so I don't really care anyway.

I am genuinely interested to see what happens to people’s immune systems long term if people keep increasing the quantity of hand waking, taking dettol to their shopping when they come home, wearing gloves, masks, washing their own flush handles Multiple times a day etc. Washing fruit and veg etc.

Wouldn’t be surprised if in a few years these people start falling ill at exposure to things that currently they are in contact with all the time and have developed immunity to.

I don’t think so. I don’t really remember tbh.

I’m rarely ill, even when I had eczema so bad on my hands I physically couldn’t wash them after every wee as my hands would crack and bleed.

Yes

@Rebootingagain - I am genuinely interested to see what happens to people’s immune systems long term if people keep increasing the quantity of hand waking, taking dettol to their shopping when they come home, wearing gloves, masks, washing their own flush handles Multiple times a day etc. Washing fruit and veg etc.

I tend to take a very liberal approach to hygiene generally. I think we need to be exposed to germs in order to build immunity. When my kids were small, I was more concerned about them at the floor just after it was washed due to the chemicals. My toilets most definitely don't get cleaned multiple times a day. My floors don't get washed every day either. My family rarely get sick and when we do, we tend to recover quickly.

However, there are certain hygiene habits that are sensible and I think hand washing after going to the toilet is one of those. The people who really bemuse me are those who use loads of chemicals multiple times per day but don't wash their hands after going to the toilet.

@OchonAngusOchon0

Please.... just go and wash your hands and get off this post, you are utterly annoying!

You wash your hands all the time. I applaud you. Well done. Carry on. Brilliant. You're really clever.

Others do not. Shocking!

Is there nothing else in this world that bothers you at the moment that you keep banging on about it? The whole thread has just become about you preaching how you got it all sussed.

Of course you wash your hands after going to the toilet?! Maybe not hot always but certainly soap.

If anything its just totally natural to turn to the sink after toileting, in a sleep daze im just following my normal pattern.

Your toilet is full of germs, even if you dont flush you will have to touch the lid, the toilet paper that sits right by the toilet, you presumably wipe?! If your so sleepy you cant wash your hands how do you know you havent got piss on you? If you dont wash your hands your spreading those germs to the door handle/lightswitch/bed.

Its not you whose going to get ill, its others who have to have your piss on their hands.

I cant beleive theres people who zoflora their toilet multiple times a day but miss hygeine step 101.

I think @OchonAgusOchonO has touched a nerve...

Of course It’s really grim not to.

Yes

Hot water is a problem for me. I don't have hot water. I boil kettles, but wash in cold water. Soap plus cold water is it much less effective than hot?

No.

Nope. I don’t always during the day either.

I work from home, there’s just me and DD here (some of the time).

I wash hands before preparing food, after using the loo for anything else and after using a public loo but the skin on my hands simply cannot cope with constant washing.

I’m massively struggling at the moment with extra hand-washing.

@Bobsandbitz - Please.... just go and wash your hands and get off this post, you are utterly annoying

You wash your hands all the time. I applaud you. Well done. Carry on. Brilliant. You're really clever.

Touched a nerve there, have I?

Is there nothing else in this world that bothers you at the moment that you keep banging on about it? The whole thread has just become about you preaching how you got it all sussed.

I will admit to one post about how I have it sussed . The others were responding to other posts, some of which were peddling the myth that urine is sterile (just in case you're in any doubt, it isn't).

And regarding whether there is anything else in the world bothering me at the moment, there's plenty - a world wide pandemic for one. But being so clever, I can focus on more than one thing at the time .

OchonAgusOchonO is right. People just don’t want to admit it because they don’t want to acknowledge they’re dirty bastards

Nope.

I accept that it’s a bit gross but I don’t see how it’s unhygienic to the extent that it will cause anyone any harm. Unless you have a contagious illness, like stomach bug.

@DetroitTheTourist - Soap plus cold water is it much less effective than hot?

So long as you use soap, you're fine. Water temperature doesn't matter.