antibac spray/wipes for public loos?

[BevB]

does anyone use antibac spray or wipes while out and about?
I'm quite paranoid about dd1 using public toilets as she always holds on to the toilet itself so have thought about making up a small spray bottle of tea tree oil & water to put in my bag, I know she washes her hands after shes been but her legs are still touching the seat which could have had contact with someones bum!
Interested to know if I'm the only one who thinks like this.

Hmmm - did you know there are more germs in your mouth than on the average toilet seat! As long as they wash their hands I don't have any issues with public toilets unless they are very obviously dirty - ie poo on seat!!

Ummm.....

Right.....there are possibly more bacteria in your mouth than on the toilet seat but the ones of the toilet seat are more likely to be the 'nasties'.

That said, I do not clean my DCs hands with anything other than soap and water and then dry them thoroughly. Not a big fan off all these antibac sprays at all - they are going to give us a hell of a lot of trouble in the years to come and we are all scare-mongered into using them for the most inappropriate situations.

BevB - you really only need to concern yourself with the Feacal-Oral route of contamination (i.e. someone touching near where someone else's bottom has been, then putting their hands in their mouth) so no need to worry about legs. DO bear in mind that your DDs hands are covered in bacteria which make up her natural defences, if you spray her hands with any general anti-bac you will remove these bacteria and cause her skin to have an imbalance of bacteria. This can lead to all sorts of excema and skin disorders which, in turn, can get infected and cause more trouble. Soap and water on thier own on the hands is fine really but you have to do what you feel is best.

antibac sprays and wipes are possibly the main cause of the rise of MRSA CDIFF and VRE

ask any infection control nurse or bacteriologist - ordinary everyday soap and water to the hands will suffice

Ok..tact level seems OK but spelling, grammar and typing are hardly impressive . I can spell honest - just not on MN it seems...

BBM is right - soap and water after going to the toilet is suffiecent, anti bac is not required.

Seems my spelling is just as bad tonight

BBM fully understood what you meant and was going to go on the 'yakult' speech about good and bad bacteria myself .
I always ensure she washes her hands with soap and water and properly rinses her hands as she tends to get dry skin otherwise and agree we are becoming a 'clean' freak population which makes us more suseptable to illnesses but being a 'hoverer' myself I'm not sure how I feel about my little girls bum touch a seat I'm not happy to place my own on IYSWIM.

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you could always put some toilet paper on the seat

so her legs arent touching the seat