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Every time I use the bathroom, every time I come from outside, every time I eat or cook
I thought that was what everyone does
SO MANY ppl don't wash their hands after coming in from outside. It's crazy. I wash my hands a lot but I only use antibacterial soap after I go #2. The rest of the time I use Dawn dish soap (or whatever is out in public)
In the middle of the night if I get up to pee, I do a quick squirt of hand sanitizer. On the rare occasion that i have a random surprise #2 in the night I have to fully wash my hands
Yes and how is ‘no’ even an option?
This is the reason why I hate shaking hands - other people are gross.
I cannot believe so many of you voted no. Y'all nasty. Like what the hell.
I’m prepared for downvotes but I’ll give an explanation. If I’m at home, I don’t have to touch the door handle. I pull my pants down, touch toilet paper to wipe, and then use a piece of toilet paper to flush. I have only touched toilet paper and my pants.
If I’m in public, if it gets any messier than the situation above, or if I’m planning to eat, I wash my hands.
In my last job, my office was over the corridor from the men’s toilet, and you could hear EVERYTHING.
Given that almost all the men in the department were doctors, senior doctors at that, I found it surprising that NONE OF THEM ever washed their hands after peeing.
I mentioned it (shamed them) in a departmental meeting one day. I didn’t mention names but we all knew who I meant, and (at least when I was in the office) they did much better after that.
But DOCTORS, FFS!!!!
Men are gross. 50% of them don't wash their hands after using the bathroom. So men are just touching their dicks and going out into the world. I NEVER shake hands with men.
I don't always have a choice. But I 100% wash my hands after shaking hands with men, because they are disgusting. No hygiene.
🤢🤢 hopefully they were forced to wash their hands before doing surgeries
Honestly, they were good on the hand-washing and hand-sanitising in clinical areas, just not “in private”. Their mistake was thinking the single cubicle toilet was sound-proofed.
Yes yes I do even at home, even after just peeing. Unless everyone bleaches their toilets including the flush buttons after each use, then just lifting the lid and flushing it could be transferring germs to hands. I can’t believe loads of people don’t. I’m actually mortified 😭
Yes, I'm always afraid of the door handle as you leave a public restroom because I know how many dirty hands have touched it.
Then again, I'm still haunted by a report I saw YEARS ago that tested the fecal matter found on "clean" hotel bedspreads. It was a lot. People just aren't clean and god knows what we're all unknowingly exposed to.
I have read enough comments from hotel workers to tell you those blankets are lucky if they get washed once a month. The sheets & pillow cases get bleached to hell, but the blankets? 😏
I hate it when a hotel has those bedspreads. (Last time I saw one, it was a plastic-looking fabric where you just know that's not going to get bleached or boiled or anything.)
I just saw something about grocery store shopping carts and how much fecal bacteria is on them. They're disgusting ffs
I'm always afraid of the door handle as you leave a public restroom because I know how many dirty hands have touched it.
Same! I really love when the sink area is doorless and separate from the stalls. I wish it was a requirement for public places.
I like that too, or if the door has a little handle at the bottom so you can use your foot to open it
I also flush with my foot when I'm out in public
I also flush with my foot when I'm out in public
Way to make it grosser for the rest of us
We're all different. And you can be holier-than-thou about the topic ....but there are more important things to be judgemental about. I know during Covid handwashing became 'a thing' to everybody's benefit. Even now if I come home after being in the city, to the shops....first place I go when I get in the door is the bathroom to wash my hands.
Always after Number 2's Sometimes not if I pee....
Yes. This isn't a "morals" thing. It is a common sense hygiene thing. If you don't, you must not mind getting sick very much.
I get sick all the time even though I wash my hands compulsively. My kids who have significant send issues and are hyper/reckless/pressure avoidant are not as rigid about hand washing and are never sick. It isn’t as clear cut as you present it.
True, but hand-washing is one more barrier of protection in the swiss cheese model.
Oh of course, which is why I’m obsessive about it- I already have a poor immune system and underlying health problems, I won’t risk anything ever. But it’s not a direct or immediate natural consequence of handwashing/not handwashing either. It’s often the rest of us who get sick from those who don’t practice good hygiene, not the people who are lazy or reckless about it.
(I gently encourage my kids about it and they are fairly good and are improving, but given their send needs it isn’t always a fight worth having given their disabilities and how they play out in our daily life).
Who the fuck voted no??
Not to be mean, but I hope the people who voted 'no' only do so due to shortage of water or something
Nope, shortage of fucks to give.
Are you one of them? Because that’s not a flex
How are you downvoted here
I don’t know; this thread is reminding me of the “how often do you shower” thread from awhile back. TRAs are either trolling us by making these posts or else definitely screenshotting this embarrassing crap
I have a skin condition that makes my skin unbearably dry. I stay away from water (combined with soap) as much as I can. When I do wash any part of my body, afterward I have to use a medically prescribed skin cream, lest my skin hurts like hot needles all over.
In the bathroom, solve this by using disinfectant hand sanitizer instead of washing my hands.
This is why I won't shake men's hands.
https://www.thecut.com/2020/03/69-of-men-dont-wash-their-hands-after-using-the-bathroom.html
Shaking hands is a weird and creepy custom anyways. I don’t want to touch people I only know in formal settings or I’m just meeting. Unless I care about you I find it so gross to have your hands on me, man or woman, outside of necessity. I always think other peoples hand skin feels so icky and then I’m stuck knowing how hot or cold their hands are ….. yuk yuk yuk 🤮.
If I love you, I hug, lots, otherwise no touching!! It’s such a weirdo surviving custom and I’m sorely disappointed when covid’s influence on this weaned….
looks like about 20% of women don’t either… im glad that handshaking went out of fashion post-covid
My answer is usually, but I answered no because when it’s in the middle of the night I just want to get back to sleep before my brain is too awake.
My hand washing escalates pretty bad when my anxiety/OCD escalates so I try not to overdo it to the point my hands get super dry.
Could the 21% who voted no please explain themselves?
I voted no.
I use toilet paper to wipe myself. The poo and pee do not touch my hands. They get on the paper and I flush the paper down the toilet.
I also sit on public toilet seats with my whole ass, without putting down toilet paper on the seat.
I have better things to do with my mental energy than worry about microbes, which are everywhere.
I have a fully operational immune system. It does what it's supposed to do.
I hardly ever get sick.
I do not give a fuck.
Jsyk, when you wipe your ass, fecal bacteria absolutely gets on your hands through the TP.
Not washing after you take a dump is absolutely vile
Prove it
The average ± standard deviation cfu attached to gloves after defecation without using a bidet toilet was 39,499.3 ± 77,768.3 cfu/glove; however, it was 4,146.9 ± 11,427.7 cfu/glove when a bidet toilet was used.
This was with four layers of toilet paper when wiping. There are absolutely fecal particles on your hands after wiping.
Microbial contamination from feces on the hands after defecation is estimated to have a major impact on the spread of intestinal infections such as norovirus gastroenteritis, hepatitis A, Salmonella infections, Clostridioides difficile-related infections, and enterohemorrhagic E. coli infections. For example, there have been outbreaks resulting from food handlers who are infected or asymptomatically infected with norovirus and do not sufficiently wash or disinfect their hands after using the toilet, and then handle food. In most cases, outbreaks of communal diarrhea are often attributed primarily to the contamination of the hands.
I would, but someone beat me to it. Are you a dude?
Not the first time I've been asked that here. No, I'm not a dude.
If you want to talk to me on the phone to verify, I could do that. (It'd be an honor to actually speak with RusticTroglodyte!)
It's funny though that you suspect I'm a dude just because I admit I don't wash my hands every time I use the toilet and I ask for proof of a scientific claim.
I'm not surprised why Rustic would ask that question, considering the statistics on male versus female bathroom habits, and the overall tone of your comments in this thread about your bathroom habits. I don't think anyone needs proof that you are a woman. Part of acknowledging that women are human is acknowledging that because humans can do gross things and have a standoffish tone, women can do gross things and have a standoffish tone.
You were provided scientific proof of the claim that fecal bacteria ends up on hands after wiping. In the study I linked, the fact that the bidet group had less fecal bacteria on their gloves than the group that didn't use a bidet shows that wiping after defecation does increase the amount of fecal bacteria on the hands.
From what I understand, you consider yourself an "aspie," and Aspergers is in the autism area of mental processes, and autism in general has some difficulties in understanding social situations? (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong.) Given that present understanding of mine, I just wanted to say that while you haven't gotten sick from your bathroom habits, the greater reason why people overwhelmingly negatively judge this behavior, is for social health reasons. In a society, it's not just about you. While you might have a good immune system, others in your community might not. Washing your hands after using the bathroom is a very simple and effective way of reducing intestinal infections. This especially matters to immunocompromised people in your community, as well as elderly people. The surface reason for the disgust and judgment from others is obviously due to the fact we're dealing with feces, and I think a greater and deeper social reason for the disgust and judgment is a lack of consideration for the people around you.
You are absolutely free to continue choosing to not wash your hands after defecating and wiping yourself. Just know that it is a very antisocial behavior, due to the health, sanitation, and infection risks you are promoting to the people around you.
There’s data somewhere that says fecal matter ends up on toothbrushes, yet we still all keep them in bathrooms. I went through a long stretch of keeping them in my room, which was easy post uni halls when it was normal to carry wash bag back and forward. But I fell into the habit of storing them by the bathroom sink again once older…
Intentionally not washing hands after using the toilet is disturbing… outside of doctor advised substitutes like dermal wash for serious skin conditions or something. It’s definitely an odd thread topic.
There’s data somewhere that says fecal matter ends up on toothbrushes, yet we still all keep them in bathrooms.
Yeah. Fecal matter sprays basically everywhere in the bathroom upon each toilet flush, I recall. I'm not sure what the cfus of fecal matter on a toothbrush are compared to a hand right after wiping though, to compare it to the bidet study. I have never been so interested in cfus of fecal matter lol.
I rinse my toothbrush right before I use it, every time. I figure it helps a bit. I don't do it intentionally for the fact it's in a room with a toilet, I just like a wet toothbrush lol.
OK but men are running around all day long not having washed their hands and touching everything. So even if women are all washing their hands like good little angels, every surface in public places is still going to be covered with fecal matter. So it really doesn't matter if you are a good little angel washing your hands every time, because everything's still going to be covered with shit. The people who prepare food should wash, the people who care for the immunocompromised should wash, doctors going into the exam room should wash, and they do, but why should I have to be a little angel who washes every time when it's not going to make the world at large any less shitty? And meanwhile men just waltz around not bothering? And we still manage to prepare food that doesn't make people sick, and protect the immunocompromised? Because we do still largely manage to do those things. If I were working in foodservice I'd wash my hands. But I don't. I scrub my hands good after handling raw meat. I run air purifiers in my home and change my bed linens frequently because I have a mold sensitivity. I've been off gluten since 2004. I wore masks during COVID like everyone else. And I wash my hands when they feel dirty. I guess I just pick my battles?
OK but men are running around all day long not having washed their hands and touching everything.
I'm not sure how most men doing something unhygienic suddenly makes the behavior excusable. I hold men to the same standards as women on this.
A person washing their hands after defecating is not a "good little angel," they're just being a hygienic human being with common decency. Saying it doesn't matter that some people are washing their hands because other people aren't washing their hands is a defeatist attitude. Just because other people have unhygienic habits doesn't mean I need to as well.
why should I have to be a little angel who washes every time when it's not going to make the world at large any less shitty?
Except it literally would be making the world less shitty? Pun intended. "The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood."
I wore masks during COVID like everyone else.
Except not everyone wore masks during COVID. Some people vehemently refused to wear masks saying their "immune system is fine" and dismissed how doing so helps immunocompromised and elderly people, just like you are doing when dismissing washing your hands after defecating.
You are free to choose to not wash your hands after defecating, and I am pointing out that it has been shown that wiping after defecating does result in increased fecal bacteria on the hands, washing hands after using the bathroom is hygienic and reduces the transmission of intestinal infections, and explaining how choosing to not wash ones hands after defecating is considerably an antisocial behavior.
The fecal matter is everywhere all the time. You wash your hands to protect yourself from it, not to protect others from it, because it is everywhere all the time. By your logic, everyone should still be wearing masks to protect people from COVID infections. Do you do that? Most people I see out in public are not wearing masks. Are they antisocial? Or are they just making a calculation? And not feeling responsible for saving the whole ocean as a single raindrop? Why do you think you are so powerful that washing your hands is going to save anyone from anything? It's not. It's going to save you, and that's it. And it might not even save you. It might actually make your immune system less robust. Why do you feel obligated to do this invisible labor? And feel superior to those who live free of that moral obligation? Women live under these kinds of chains all the fucking time and men do not. Why? Why should we do emotional labor and make sure everyone in the room feels comfortable? Why should that responsibility fall on us because we're women? Why should we seek the pseudo validation of being the morally superior sex that takes care of everyone and never asks anything in return? Feeling morally superior is scant compensation for having one's every move monitored internally by a compulsion to always be good. It's fear plain and simple. I refuse to live that way. If men don't have to do it, I don't have to do it.
I always do because a) every time I sit down, the cat runs in, jumps in the sink, and insists I turn on the tap so he can drink the running water off his arm, and only turning up the tap and splashing water around makes him leave. b) I can then give my husband a morally superior stink eye every time he goes. c) my nails collect a shocking amount of crud from cuddling my dog and donkeys, so they always need washing. d) "Break the Bacteria Chain" pops up in my head automatically.
How tragic! My handwashing behaviour is largely male-driven! 😳
Ha ha! My dogs only like drinking from the toilet flush, as it’s actually the only mains-supplied water in the house, everything else, baths, sinks, etc. comes from the water tank upstairs, it must taste better to them.
My friend was once cleaning her porch and heard someone peeing in the adjacent toilet. Spooked, as her partner and son were out, she peered round the door to see her cat squatting over the bowl and peeing straight into it, and best of all, leaving no dirty man splashes, unlike the other men in the house.
I've always wanted to train my cat to use the toilet!
Apparently you can train them quite easily, starting with special toilet seats!
I wash my hands every time I use the toilet. Reading this poll result felt kind of wild; then again I do have a pretty bad contamination phobia.
I do and my mother does not
And if she does, she flushes the toilet after washing her hands 😫
I'll be honest I don't know a single person who does except maybe in the public restrooms. Like I am not going to wash my hands every time I pee at home or something which is like 50 times a day- I feel like I have also never seen someone like actually wash their hands after the bathroom in their own home either.... am I not doing this right?
I will use hand sanitizer in public bathrooms though because other people can be gross so I don't know whats going on there
Everyone I have lived with washes their hands after using the bathroom at home, that's all my immediate relatives, my flatmates throughout uni and my partner. I would be miffed if I lived with someone who didn't tbh, touching the same things and all.
... do you at least rinse?!!!!
If I need to yeah I have hand sanitizer near me all the time and use it a lot. But I also was an RA in college... I can guarantee most people are not rinsing or washing its one of the main issues with people getting sick in college lol
I always wash my hands after using the bathroom. The only time I don’t is if the power is out at home and I can’t run the water. Hand sanitizer is what I use when I have no running water. This poll is making me not want to touch anyone’s hands, lol. Let’s normalize the fist bump and get rid of the handshake. 🤜 🤛
This poll is making me not want to touch anyone’s hands, lol.
For real, for real. I already didn't want to touch men's hands. Now I realize it's women, too.
22% said no?!
I have mild OCD, so I have to or I don’t feel right.
I don't have OCD at all, in fact I am quite untidy and no one would accuse me of being a neat freak, but not washing hands after the toilet is ... gross.
I chose yes. But in a very few cases, when I've used the toilet and then find out there's no water (say a public toilet), I don't because I can't. Then I find my hand sanitizer.
I mean yeah sometimes you're in the woods or something, but that isn't what is being asked.
I wash my hands every time after using the toilet - even after cleaning it. I have mild OCD too so need to try and control hand washing when my anxiety flares up.
I was a bit put out when my mum told me about a nurse who confessed that she didn't wash her hands after using the toilet even on a shift. :/
Hands should be washed especially after cleaning it. I can't believe ppl clean the toilet without disposable gloves tbh
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I use gloves when I change the cat box and I still wash my hands after. I effing hate changing cat litter
My cat does the same. Even at night( It's especially annoying at night. Like I try to go to the bathroom before I go to bed to avoid waking up in the middle of the night, why can't my cat do the same? Or at least be a bit generous to me and wait till morning?
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Same, like someone else said I pee a million times a day. So at home I rinse after pee, wash after poo. When I'm out I wash after everything.
Every. Single. Time. No exceptions. I’m actually shocked at how many people report no in this poll.
I also wash my hands multiple times when I’m cooking, in between handling ingredients or anytime I get grease, oil, or butter on my hands.
I thought this was normal.
Is it every single time ever or every single time in day to day practice?
I know I’ve drunkenly passed out on the toilet floor (so not washed hands) or had water turned off in an emergency and desperately needed to pee, so grabbed anti bac wipes and gel, or been a stupid kid giggling in toilets and ran off with friends before getting to handwashing part …..
I’d always wash my hands but there’s definitely exceptions in my life when I haven’t ….
I found the complaints of sore hands during covid era strange, I didn’t wash my hands any more than usual because I always washed them the number of times covid recommendations pushed for (and I still wash them before I use the toilet as well as after, from the nhs recommendation during pregnancy that became a habit and because I have dogs, so dog germs on my hands) And it was gross to realise many people obviously didn’t because now they were experiencing dried out skin from regular hand washing…. So I’m a more compulsive hand washer than many, yet I know there’s been the odd exceptions. I recall one time in labour where the contraction hit too fast after using the toilet and I was hurried out to get back to gas and air. Equally I grew up riding horses and have definitely peed behind a bush when out on day long rides with picknick lunches, so no hand washing facilities and disorganised teens rarely think of things like wipes or hand gel. Or had my own kids need to pee behind a bush when out dog walking when they were little. I’m not always perfect enough to have wipes and hand gel. It happens 🤷🏼♀️
My rigid adhd brain doesn’t like the options of saying yes when I know there’s been the odd exception or saying no when I’m more rigid than most about handwashing on a day to day basis, so I’m not voting. But I’d wonder if this is the cause of no answers- if that makes sense?
It’s habitual for me, it was ingrained in me from toddlerhood that after using the bathroom, wash your hands. Ditto before eating or while handling ingredients in the kitchen. Even when drunk or otherwise impaired, it’s muscle memory. It’s like pulling your pants down before peeing. It’s automatic for me.
When there’s no running water, I find a bottle of water or some hand sanitizer. When there’s no soap, I rinse my hands thoroughly then use some hand sanitizer. Or I’ll wander to the kitchen sink and use dish soap.
I do agree about the sore hands complaints in the COVID era. I’ve always had dry hands, even as a small child (before I was washing my hands as much, since I wasn’t preparing foods or as interested in hygiene yet and hand gotten the habit drilled in) to the point where my mom would slather my hands in cream and put socks over them at bedtime. I still do that very occasionally as an adult… but honestly even with regular hand washing throughout the day my skin only gets really dry in the middle of winter. And I keep lotion next to the sink and next to my bed. Applying it once or twice a day takes care of most of the problem.
People are weird, I guess is the moral here.
Ah, see, my muscle memory is definitely poor. I most definitely have forgotten to pull my pants down before peeing on the toilet 🤷🏼♀️ I can almost feel the neurons disconnect or misfire or whatever my adhd brain and eds body fucks up. And can definitely imagine others have lapses like that sometimes. It’s human.
Vaseline on hands+feet plus white cotton gloves or white cotton socks is the BEST
This. The 28% "no" so far has got me repulsed.
Wash your hands after rubbing it on your crotch and asshole, people, good god. Bathroom surfaces are disgusting as well—toilet handle, toilet lid, doors, etc., y'all touching all of that piss-and-shit-particle-covered surfaces and then going out in the world touching other people and food and whatever else, wtf.
Nasty.
Lol I was surprised by the number of 'no' responses among women! Interesting!
I've got contamination OCD. I wash my hands just thinking about being dirty. It sucks :(
I have ocd as well as severe emetophobia. Even if I recovered somehow, I would still wash frequently because it's a common courtesy.
I'm the same -having worked in laboratories preventing cross-contamination has been drilled into me. I cook for immunocompromised people, have pets, love gardening, and know how quickly shared items like door handles/keyboards can turn into little germ factories. I am not OCD but I wash my hands several times a day.