To be outraged when ladies don't wash their hands after the toilet?

[Onedayinthesun]

It happens all the time, at work, at the gym, in restaurants, shopping centres......

Why do so many ladies use the loo then just flounce out of the toilet and give the sink a complete swerve?

Off they go back out into the world spreading their toilet germs from their hands onto unsuspecting people, it makes me so mad ð??¡

I just don't get it, what is it about soap and water that some of the population want to avoid after doing their business?? AIBU to get so angry about this?

If it makes you feel any better, wee is sterile unless someone has a UTI and the vast majority of women using public toilets are there for a wee.

People are allergic to soap, wtf, wash your mucky hands

Those being previous do you wash your hands properly is the real question. 30 seconds is not enough time to actually kill any germs so you may as well not bother. Here's the right way, thoroughly wet hands, apply soap and begin to scrub palms together, wash fingers, between fingers and thumbs (would surprise you his much we miss our thumbs when washing) then rinse in hand hot water for a minimum of twenty seconds. Then shake the majority of water off and dry thoroughly. I do this but see no-one else do it so really unless you wash currently you are just as manky as those who don't bother.

Agree with cote dazure. If you are having a wee you should just be touching toilet paper with maybe sterile urine. Different for poos but although I do wash my hands not washing them after a wee isn't the germ disaster some posters imagine. Some people sound fermi phobic our bodies are permanently coated in bacteria going for a wee adds a few extra maybe. We have a symbiotic relationship with bacteria especially in our gut and vagina. Wash your hands before cooking or eating and after poos but I don't think urine soaked toilet paper is a major public health risk. Many eczema creams contain urea

Germophobic. I forget about autocorrect on this thing

Absolutely disgusting. YANBU.

Have just spent a week with norovirus going through my entire family including my 1 year old. Thanks very much you dirty lazy selfish people.

But unless you were all infected simultaneously by one 'dirty lazy selfish person' you must have passed it between yourselves?

If it makes you feel any better, wee is sterile unless someone has a UTI and the vast majority of women using public toilets are there for a wee.

And quite a lot of us over the age of 50 have chronic UTIs, for which we can' t get in to see the GP for ten days.

I do always wash my hands BTW. But since my 1 year old (at the time) ATE half a poo while I briefly left the room during a nappy change, I don't worry too much about germs. (There was no poo when I left the room, it made its entrance while I was just outside searching for a clean nappy.)
He was fine - I couldn't look at him for a while - but there were no ill effects.

I'm not sure if you can always help passing it on to others though, Norovirus is highly contagious. A sickness bug has swept through my son's school this week, nurseries and primary schools are breeding grounds for bugs which are taken home for all the family to endure. And although they have handwashing routines, young children are in such close contact and probably not the most effective at hand washing, it's almost inevitable that bugs will spread.

Studies show washing hands with water and soap is the most effective method of cleaning. Antibac does not actually get rid of the germs.

I was part of a hospital study two years ago that wanted stats on illness versus hand washing. Turns out if you regularly wash your hands (after toilet, before eating, when reaching a destination/as soon as you get home etc) that there is a correlation to catching flu and viruses.
So that's the main reason to consider proper hand washing (between the fingers and under the nails too- not slap dash), not stress about a few poo germs!

Blimey. I do wash my hands, but there are some extreme reactions here.

I'd worry more about cashpoints, trolley handles, money, cutlery on the tables in restaurants and drinking out of cans than I would a bit of sterile wee on a toilet door handle.

I once heard a conversation through a cubicle between mother and daughter about "don't touch this it's dirty " "don't touch that it's dirty ". They then emerged from the cubicle and bypassed the sinks straight to the door

On the theme of washing children's hands, modern hand dryers are awful for young children as they have to be held directly underneath to activate them. The Dyson ones where you put your hands in are near impossible. Dryers tend to be placed so most of the water has trickled down my sleeves anyway. Drying is an important to optimum cleanliness.

Still don't see the issue with antibacterial wipes/gel. I've seen an improvement in infection rate since I changed my toilet routine to using these and wet toilet paper.

I still wash my hands before making or serving food, before eating anything with my hands, and before touching my face, after doing makeup. I wash my hands quite a lot, just not in public toilets where I want to touch as little as possible.

I find ATM /cashpoint/hand-holdy grips on trains etc grim, and wash my hands carefully after either side of my commute. I don't touch door handles on exiting toilets. I think this is fairly reasonable but not OTT.

Just have a Google for research reports in the area of what happens when you flush a loo.

Yes, agree with this. I always put the lid down before flushing to avoid being sprayed with an invisible soup of sewage. Having said that my son has a library book at the moment which says some poo germs are good for you?

If thinking it is gross to not wash your hands after going to the bathroom means I am a crazy germaphobe then I'm happy to accept that label.

Urine might be sterile when leaving the body, doesn't mean that it is gross to spread it elsewhere, even traces.

Would you be ok with the chef preparing your food going to the bathroom and not washing their hands?

I'm still bleurgh at the person who uses their feet to operate flush/door.

If I'm selfish for not washing my hands every time, Lord knows what doing that transfers around the place

I wash my hands but it doesn't half get boring and I totally take on board the oral sex argument micah put way up thread. I can't get wound up about all these wee germs everywhere and 'how disgusting we are in this country' etc. In other countries I've shat in holes in the ground with no running water and was fine. Assuming you don't have one of the aforementioned immunity conditions, then best to chill out about it all. There's germs everywhere, most especially when we get down to doing the do with someone else's bits...

I often don't bother because everything inside a public toilet is going to be covered with germs.

You get them on your hands opening the cubicle door, on your clothes when you do them back up, touch tap, wash hands, get them on your hands when you turn the tap off, open door - and if you touch your clothes at any point during the day you'll get them back.

May as well get a proper dose of them in the first place & get out of the stinking place quicker.

I had a dump in a field the other day - no taps there!!

And I bite my nails!!

I'll wash hands before preparing or serving dinner, irrespective of whether I've been to the loo that day.