to be revolted by this?

[Goldmandra]

99% of people interviewed at motorway service stations toilets claimed they had washed their hands after going to the toilet. Electronic recording devices revealed only 32% of men and 64% of women actually did.

Why is it so difficult to use a bit of soap and water for the sake of keeping poo
out of our food?

Ugh!

[TheDreadedFoosa]

I actually agree we are not in any great danger from some germs but

Whats so hard about washing hands after using the loo? Hand wadhing is generally a positive thing, yes? So after going to the toilet would be a fairly good start. If you dont do it then, i have little belief youd do it at all.

And its the non-washers who are whingeing about yucky taps and germy door handles it doesnt add up. Use all the excuses you want, you dont wash your hands cos youre a lazy filthbag.

[GhostShip]

Pos1

this is the one I used at work

[GhostShip]

And its the non-washers who are whingeing about yucky taps and germy door handles

Yes but I AM a washer and I'm also 'whingeing' about these yucky taps. I don't think you quite mean what we mean by yucky taps if you'd be willing to touch them. I will wash at every opportunity but I'm not touching taps covered in filth. In that case, which luckily isn't very often, I'll use an anti bac.

[Devora]

I wasn't raised to wash my hands after going to the toilet. (Toilet downstairs in a shed in the back garden, bathroom upstairs and only cold water, load of kids overpressed single mother etc).

As an adult, I read about the scientific basis for handwashing and thought eek. I am now an assiduous handwasher. I'm not particularly fussy about all kinds of hygiene, but I reckon if you wash your hands regularly then you're improving your odds of keeping well.

What surprises me about this thread is how many people seem to see nasty germ-catching as a zero sum game. Like you can see it or judge where it is (like the poster who wouldn't press the flush if she saw faecal matter on it) or that there is no point washing your hands if you're going to touch the door handle, like you either have germs or you haven't.

My understanding is that there's two points to this: one is avoiding obvious nasties (like poo on your hands), but more importantly it's about the herd immunity effect of having a whole population who wash their hands regularly, which would make an appreciable difference to communicable disease. Even if you just see visiting the toilet as an opportunity to remember to wash your hands, it's worth doing. It may be the first opportunity you've had since that bus ride this morning when somebody sneezed on you, after all.

Plus, I think I'm right in saying that antibac gels are not as good as handwashing. Useful as a top-up, but they can also irritate your skin and that makes it more vulnerable to germs and infection.

[Fakebook]

I think it damn right nasty and selfish behaviour.

Wiping your arse sitting down, means your hand enters the toilet pan. There's no escaping it. God knows how many poo particles stick on to your hands when you're wiping. So bloody disgusting. Then you touch everything afterwards to pass on those poo particles to others. Thanks. Thanks a lot.

[GhostShip]

I don't know why people dont wash their hands when given an opportunity (yucky taps aside), I love the feeling of them when they're clean i am a freak

[MrsKeithRichards]

Is that it zoo? Really? Morning and night? So twice a day unless you happen to chop an onion?

You are disgusting.

[SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood]

Do people not wash their hands before preparing food any more, or after handling bins?

[MrsKeithRichards]

It seems not.

[MrsKeithRichards]

I second the dermal 500 for eczema. I suffer and usually my hands avoid it but sometimes not. You can pump it into a little bottle for carrying about.

[Fakebook]

Wait, can I ask. Do any of you with small babies and toddlers not wash your hands after changing a shitty nappy? Because I wash my hands after changing a nappy, whether it be morning, noon or night. No ifs or buts.

Please tell me you wash your hands after changing your babies.

[GhostShip]

Does dermol get rid of bacteria as well as hand gel? I've got dermol on prescription

[CoolaSchmoola]

I wash the taps whilst washing my hands and then open the door with the paper towel I have just used (because of dirty bastards who don't wash theirs!!)

That way my hands are clean, the taps are clean - and I haven't touched the door handle after you filthy beggars that proclaim your use of handwash is perfectly fine - it's not.

[donnie]

I also wsh my hands as soon as I get home from anywhere/before I start preparing food etc etc and I make my dds do the same.

There are some right minging skanks out there .

[GhostShip]

I have 2 jobs, one as a carer and the other I work at a popular online bike shop. The toilets in the second are horrible. The mechanics wash their hands but must just swill them with water and soap, then turn the taps off, leaving the taps covered in dirty soap (think oil, mud, crap) that then congeals.

Its vile. It really is.

[MrsKeithRichards]

No it's not anti bac but a soap substitute.

[GhostShip]

Yeah I used to use it as a soap substitute, had the shower one too. Worked wonders for my eczema that stuff.

[shewhowines]

I'm surprised how many people on here, have admitted how skanky they are. How many others Mntters are there who are not brave enough to admit it?

[allthefun]

So my friend always invites me back for a coffee after school run. Without fail goes in has a wee doesn't wash her hands (WC door is in view of kitchen ) and then makes the coffee. Bleurgh.

[Goldmandra]

The Children's Hospital Eczema nurse told me it is antibacterial and you can use it as a light moisturiser as well as a soap substitute so covers all bases as far as I am concerned.

[zookeeper]

I always wash my hands after emptying the bins, funnily enough; maybe because my hands feel dirty. I think that's it; I wash them when they feel dirty, but not as a matter of course after visiting the loo.

[Goldmandra]

Do you rummage around in the rubbish with your hands or just hold the outside of the binbag and the lid of the dustbin, zookeeper?

[CelticPromise]

I wash before cooking, after touching raw meat, after changing a shitty nappy, after a poo, when they feel grubby ( usually after public transport). Just not after every single wee. Nothing I've read here has persuaded me to change this.

[SHRIIIEEEKPoolingBearBlood]

Surely dustbin lids are filthy?
Thing is my hands feel dirty after visiting the toilet. It's conditioned.

[GhostShip]

I don't think you realise how dirty your hands did feel until you wash them IMO