Do you wash your hands after using the loo?

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I can’t believe I’m asking this, but: do you wash your hands after using the loo? Every time? Does it differ for a wee or a poo?

We moved into an old home with a WC (toilet, no sink) in the hallway. We have an open plan living-dining-kitchen, which obviously has a sink and is visible to everyone who visits.

Since moving, I have noticed that so many people don’t wash their hands after using the loo. People I would expect to wash, like my incredibly tidy MIL, cousins, friends who work in medicine, etc. Women and men (who presumably touch their willies whilst having a wee?) alike. I might say as many as 40% don’t wash their hands (or only do sporadically, which makes me think they’re only doing it after a poo?)

I myself wash every time and am admittedly a bit germophobic (I use a towel to open the bathroom door if I’m in public, that sort of thing) but I am honestly flabbergasted at how many people don’t wash after using the loo. I sometimes mention, “there’s no sink there but you’re welcome to wash your hands here” (in the kitchen) but it doesn’t seem to make a difference.

Do I just have an unusually minging social circle or am I alone in thinking most people wash their hands every time after using the loo?

I often think this ( and try to banish it from my mind) when buying clothes from a charity shop...

Yes apart from wen i wake up in night for a wee.

You may as well not bother at all, as that is not going to do anything to prevent the spread of germs. It is because of attitudes like this that people get ill 🙄

Yes every time - apart from when it's the middle of the night and I just get up to do a wee and go back to bed.

You are unreasonable for not fitting a sink in the WC and expecting people to use the kitchen sink. How hygienic is that?

Every time! Also wash hands when I come into the house, before cooking or eating, and also wash them frequently if I’m handling anything dusty or petting the cat. And super-thoroughly before putting contact lenses in or touching my eyes to take them out (DP often doesn’t do this, to my utter horror. He can be minging!)

Every single time
Replace your toilet with one of those with abuilt in sink on top of space is limited. It's gross not being able to wash your hands. I wouldn't want to use a kitchen sink either. Imagine if you'd just changed a tampon .. bloody hands everywhere

What a ridiculous excuse. I wouldn't care, rather than not washing my hands. I'm always suspicious when I go to someone's house and there is no soap and/or hand towel in the bathroom

I wouldn't feel comfortable using the kitchen sink, especially if you were in the kitchen preparing food. I'd use the bottle of hand gel I keep in my pocket.

Every time and when I come in from being out. Taught my dc to do the same.
Dh doesn’t eat at buffets anymore as he’s seen too many men have a wee then head straight to the table without washing their hands.

Yes I do! I wash my hands an awful lot anyway, I work in a school. I nag the kids to do it because so many of them don’t.

Yes, religiously. I'm germ phobic too OP. But, I'm not that tidy. I've noticed that tidy people and clean people don't always overlap. I know some very tidy organised people who are not nearly as clean as me, and vice versa.

Not always. I don’t get wee or poo on my hands when I go to the loo.

How does this work?

yes I always wash after poo or wee in public or at someone elses house, but at my own house only after a poo.
i don’t know why.. I guess I know I haven’t touched anything pee related.

Yeah I’ve found it doesn’t always overlap.. my mum had stuff everywhere but clean, I love an organised tidy house but never cleaned a skirting board in my life

Always. Including if at home alone. And I’m not a germophobe. Just learnt to always do it as a child and kept on doing it.

I travel a lot and we often stop at motorway services. I'm always stunned by the amount of women who don't wash their hands (or just wet their hands and shake) after using the toilet.

I'm the opposite - scrupulously clean, but pretty messy and disorganised! 🤭

Ok, can I ask all those who say they always wash their hands after a wee at home, how much wee do you get on your hands? I’m with a PP (😂) and have a wodge of loo roll and don’t get anything on me. There’s only me and DH in the house and after 30+ years I suspect I’m immune to any germs he might have…

Honestly hand on heart yes l do

I cannot believe this is even a question within fresh memory of Covid. we were just saying at work we clinical handwash every time even if it delays things at a public loo