Do men just not wash their hands after using the toilet?

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I'm so fed up. We've had several workmen in the house over the past few months, a delivery man and several of DH's friends - all of them used our toilet and didn't wash their hands after. AIBU to find this totally disgusting and unhygienic?! Why are there so many people who skip this step? Don't they feel unclean?

I recently had to watch a lengthy bit of cctv, showing a school open toilet block. Numerous male members of staff came straight from the loo and walked away without washing their hands. I was shocked!

Not teaching your daughter to wash her hands and passing your filthy habits onto her is disgusting drizzlehair.

Dh did used to skip washing hands after a wee until he was grassed up by ds1 and 2 (trained by me) and has now had to reform his ways under the pressure of universal familial approval.

We had workmen working on the house for two weeks. Not a single one of them washed their hands after going to the loo. I know because the downstairs toilet sink tap is very high pressure, so you can hear it being run anywhere in the house. Dirty fuckers.

Not washing your hands after the loo is the primary cause of the spread of thread worms. Anyone that does this after having a poo is risking infecting others with all sorts of things. It's highly immoral and irresponsible.

I don't know about male colleagues (as never close enough to hear if they wash their hands in the loos at work), but I'm quite sure all my male relatives and friends do at my house.
I live in a bungalow, my bathroom is positioned so that you hear everything!
Maybe I am lucky - and there are some dirty sods out there.
I do think it's worse if a man doesn't wash his hands after a wee, as he does have to handle his bits.

DH actually annoys me when I hear him washing his hands. He presses the soap bottle pump three times for one hand wash. I've told him one pump is enough - but he carrys on.
I just find it so bloody wasteful.

I am a bit Howard Hughes in public toilets.
After washing my hands I try to get out without touching door handles. It can work depending on the type of door..

I'm scared now. I'm thinking that if there are that many people who are not bothered about hand washing after the loo, some may work in restaurant kitchens etc.
I hope not.

I used to have a job supervising office cleaners. The soap and paper towels in the mens' loos hardly ever needed refilling.

I have what appears to be permanent IBS, triggered by being infected by giardiasis many years ago. At the time of diagnosis, I was asked if I'd been abroad (I hadn't).
The usual method of transmission in the UK often involves poor hand washing hygiene by kitchen staff in restaurants and takeaways. As it was not common here, it took 3 miserable months to diagnose so I have no way of knowing precisely where I caught it.

My 4yo DS manages to wash his hands after the toilet and before meals. Every time. Without being asked.

So a very slow handclap to those dirty little buggers who seemingly have the intelligence of an amoeba.

Yuck is all I can say.

www.nhs.uk/Livewell/homehygiene/Pages/how-to-wash-your-hands-properly.aspx
Chilled by how many do not wash their hands. Nhs advice on how and why.
I always make sure to carry anti bac in addition to washing hands in public because of all those who do not!

Bully for you drizzle. Like coffee I'm on immunosuppressants and currently I've been ill with one infection or another, without a break, since November.

They have all been illness that are transferred through less than clean hands - colds, strep, noro etc. They've all been caught from work. I'm an office based hospital worker. I use the soap, hand gel and moisturiser provided, but many of my colleagues, mostly the men, don't.

My DF, XP and DS all wash their hands after using the toilet. Even DS, who is 9 acknowledges he gets a sweaty groin and knows that warm moist areas are a breeding ground for germs. He gets grossed out by his friends who use the urinals, don't wash their hands, then touch their sandwiches.

I'm the same Pickled - I often use a wodge of paper towel or loo roll to open toilet doors on the way out , if there's a well placed bin you can get the door open, bin the paper towel and leave without touching one single germy door handle!

I have also had a house full of tradesman for the last 8 months or so. And I have also noticed the lack of handwashing. The loo is right next to my home office where I WFH full time so I notice them not washing their hands. I have now adoped the PA approach of only offering tea/coffee etc to the ones who have proved their personal hygiene credentials! The one who used to arrive and then immediately go for a shit every morning and not wash his hands really fucked me off.

How vile - people not washing their hands, and some men not even after a poo - bleurgh!
I have mastered the art of being able to use a public loo without any part of my body coming into contact with any part of the toilet or cubicle. Lots of hovering (great for the muscles) over the seat, followed by handwashing and use of tissues to cover up my hand skin while turning off taps/opening doors etc. You can't be too careful, especially now that I know there are plenty of folk who will happily shit and not wash their hands. Maybe they don't bother wiping their arses either?

I was always a handwashing Nazi with my dc when they were younger and would inspect/smell.check the sink for wetness and the soap to ensure it had been used. I'm still a bit Nazi like now and smell their hands to make sure they are soapy clean before they eat (they are 12 and 15) .

Flame me if you like!

I'm male and wash my hands every time. As I do all the cooking in the house I wouldn't like my family to be in any doubt that my hands are clean.

I'm also immune compromised. The biggest risk to my health is picking up germs, especially from people who don't wash their hands or those who sneeze, cough and splutter everywhere.

Some of you are revolting. It takes a few moments to wash your hands. And whilst you might want to take your chances with the 'wee wee germs' I don't think anyone you shake hands with or cook for does.

In huge contrast. an ex of mine always uses a stall in public and then washes his hands. And if at a house he will almost always pee directly into the sink and then rinse out the sink and wash his hands and even rinse his penis.

So... That's like really clean. But also.. really gross somehow...?? I do not know how I feel about it. I will say that he was the cleanest genitals I've ever been in contact with for it, no accidental wee or anything being left on there, which BE HONEST you can totally taste. and its not their fault they just haven't JUST showered.

I don't know how to feel.

"Observations in 2003 found 39 per cent of women and 63 per cent of men did not wash their hands after using a public toilet."

www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/majority-men-dont-wash-hands-6502229

www.theguardian.com/society/2016/jul/26/disgust-science-public-health-hygiene

This article is great - it explores theories about disgust as well as focusing on the importance of hand hygiene. Just because you don't find something disgusting, doesn't mean that the bacteria isn't there on your hands or that it isn't inherently dirty or unhygenic!

28% of Londoners swabbed in a random sample had fecal matter on their hands . Also washing hands could in theory prevent many gastro Illnesses.

Those of you that don't handwash - please at least do so before leaving your house and when you're in a public place, and always in hospitals!

You probably have more germs on your mobile phone than there are on the toilet door handle.

And you can be too clean. We all have microbes in and on our bodies which are essential for life. There are actually very few that are harmful and very many that are helpful. It is not yet understood how helpful they are - but I was reading an article at the weekend in the Times or the Sunday Times which said that during a vaginal birth many microbes are transferred to the baby from the vagina and the anus, and if a baby is born via c-section you should try to smear the baby with vaginal and anal matter from the mum to achieve the same protection.

I imagine once antibiotic resistance becomes more prevalent people will become more conscious of hygiene.

To those of you who say you don't think you are putting yourself at risk - kindly give a thought to the cancer sufferers and other immune compromised people out there. YOU might get a tummy bug from the germs you are happy to carry around with you. I (and others like me) could end up in intensive care or, worst case scenario - DEAD.

Wash your hands FFS!