To think there’s no way you can wipe your bum clean?

[crazykoo124]

Born in a mixed race family with a Middle Eastern mother, I was always taught to wash my downstairs with water after no 1s and 2s. We have a built in mini shower head thing to just spray our bums clean, and before that we used to have a jug sort of thing.

I’ve always wondered, do you genuinely think your bum is clean if you only wipe?

The way I see it, if someone dropped a few drops of urine or fecal matter on my flooring at home, I’d scrub it clean and atleast use some water. No way would I give it a wipe clean with a dry wad of tissue! So how can your skin be clean….

Am I missing something? Do you wet the tissue before use?

Sorry for the silly question! Have always wondered.

It's one of those random things that pops into my head at times too, OP 😁 I get what you're saying, and when I think about it it does seem weird that when I was growing up it was considered the norm just to use dry loo roll after a poo and think "that'll do". What I do now is fill a jug with hot water and use that to have a proper soap and water wash whilst sat on the loo. Works brilliantly 😎

what is with the all the twee terms "downstairs" "no 1 and 2"

@HarlanPepper

This obsession with other people's arseholes is peak Mumsnet. Read a book or something instead.

Can presumably get a wide range of specialist books if this is someone's preferred topic

At home, after every poo I go to my bedroom next to the toilet and wash my whole "undercarriage" with a clean wash mitt and soap gel, then throw that into the laundry.

Or time it so I poo just before having a shower.

Obv public toilets just a dry wipe till I get home.

@sashh

Urine is sterile so wiping / washing is just for comfort.

As for No 2, if your bowel is healthy there shouldn't be much to wipe.

If you are splashing water then there is a danger you are spreading fecal matter outside the toilet.

A bidet doesn't splash water - it directs a jet of warm water to the exact spot . I've got one and nothing gets spread outside of the toilet.

I agree OP, having lived in countries where there is either a bidet, hose or toilet spray I cannot understand how people in the UK can stand to just scrub their arse, ineffectually, with yards of loo roll! So unhygienic! And wasteful!

The issue is drying afterwards- unless it's your own bathroom and you have a towel it's again wasteful yards of loo roll.

Do you just spray with water OP or do you actually soap up and rinse with the shower head? Do you wipe first? Sorry to be graphic but there are times I go for a poo and have to wipe quite a few times; I imagine if you didn't wipe first then you'd be smearing that all around.

I grew up in countries where a bidet in bathrooms was the norm- great when you have your period too. I miss having them!

I lived for years somewhere that had some form of toilet attachment/modification to clean bums. I felt quite dirty when I moved back to the U.K. just using dry paper. So now I use dry first, then I wet toilet paper under the tap (right next to loo) and use that. Feels much better! If I have to pop somewhere else (virtually never) I just use dry paper).

I also would never have used a bidet or hose in a public toilet. I'm not generally a germophobe, but that never felt clean.

OP I never ever could understand how to use the jug and be clean or not get water everywhere. How does that work?

Hiw do you clean your butt with just water over a toilet? Do you use your hand? Are you saying you just create poopy water around your nether regions and hope that cleans it? and then how do you dry yourself? How do you keep water isolated to just one area? I didn't think that's how water works- sorry to be disgusting (you started it to be fair), but doesn't the water follow the contours of your body and then just drip with whatever it is supposedly washing off?
(And also...what are you eating that necessitates washing after every poop? )
So many questions!
Also since you asked, yes I wipe myself, the tissue comes away clean and I shower regularly with soap and water (I would think most people have a regular schedule and I I generally tend to poop in the morning or evening just before a shower)
I think I would worry about spread of germs if I regularly swished a load of water with no soap around my nether regions immediately after a poop
And as you asked, no I porbbsly wouldn't clean poop off my floor by blasting water at it. I would wipe it up and then sanitise the area (I.e. soap/floor cleaner). Putting water on it would spread germs

@crazykoo124

Born in a mixed race family with a Middle Eastern mother, I was always taught to wash my downstairs with water after no 1s and 2s. We have a built in mini shower head thing to just spray our bums clean, and before that we used to have a jug sort of thing.

I’ve always wondered, do you genuinely think your bum is clean if you only wipe?

The way I see it, if someone dropped a few drops of urine or fecal matter on my flooring at home, I’d scrub it clean and atleast use some water. No way would I give it a wipe clean with a dry wad of tissue! So how can your skin be clean….

Am I missing something? Do you wet the tissue before use?

Sorry for the silly question! Have always wondered.

I’ve always wondered how you dry your bits after you’ve showered them ? And do you not use any sort of soap ? Just water ?

Toilet paper is disgusting on its own, you would hope people wouldn’t use it to remove wee or poo from any other part of their body, so I have no idea why some people find it acceptable to smear wee and poo on their genitals and just leave it there.

Shattaf and soap all the way here, or a water bottle if out and about.

Unless you're planning a sexual session with bum sex on the carts (in which case you just wash it beforehand), there is no need to have a sterile bumhole. There will always be a number of fecal bacteria around the anus regardless what we do. it does not harm us. It is normal. Humans were never meant to be sterile. No animal is. All other mammals walk around with a bit of poo around their anus. it is normal.

I wonder how lots of people on here would have coped with a communal lavvy and a square of newspaper to wipe their arse 🤣

OK one I want to know - what do they do in space? Is there some sort of suction?

Is it just the UK that doesn’t have bidets etc as standard?

@MysweetAudrina

I spray it with flash bathroom and a damp j cloth.

In an emergency I’ve been known to use an anti bac cleaning wipe 😂

So with the little shower nozzle, do you all put the same one really close to your bum with poo on it? Or do you wipe first? I don't get it, surely that nozzle is really disgusting?

@OmgIThinkILikeYou

So with the little shower nozzle, do you all put the same one really close to your bum with poo on it? Or do you wipe first? I don't get it, surely that nozzle is really disgusting?

This is what I'm wondering 🤔

Most people dry wipe first then use soap then the hose spray/jug to rinse. Don’t they?

Wet wipes in an emergency (eg a place with no hose like the majority of British bathrooms.

Worth remembering most bathrooms in the ME have sealed tiled floors with a drain like a wet room, so can be hosed down with disinfectant daily rather than mopped or hoovered.

@OmgIThinkILikeYou

So with the little shower nozzle, do you all put the same one really close to your bum with poo on it? Or do you wipe first? I don't get it, surely that nozzle is really disgusting?

I always wonder this and surely bidets and these shower nozzles are covered in tiny bits of urine/ fecal matter from other people. Eugh.

Both methods are pretty gross in different ways to be honest!

I have a spray now and love it. Much cleaner. Not sure I would ever want to go back.

I hope all these wet wipes people are using aren't going into the sewage system

I’ve seen some crowing on Mumsnet in my time, but ‘I wipe my arse better than you’ takes it to a whole new level.

@pictish

I’ve seen some crowing on Mumsnet in my time, but ‘I wipe my arse better than you’ takes it to a whole new level.

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