To the posters who don't wash their hands: yuck . So you don't get sick? Spare me. You are spreading germs to everyone else. I always wash my hands after using the restroom. I always wash my hands after changing a diaper, regardless of what was in it.

Always in a public restroom, not always at home if I just peed. I do wash my hands before eating and at other points in the day though. If anyone in the house is sick I wash hands a lot more.

I don't get sick very often (except when my daughter gives me something she got at daycare) and have never had a yeast infection, so I see no reason to change.

For the previous poster-if someone was unstable enough to pee on themselves in front of me, the pee on their hand would be the least if my concerns.

Do women really not wash after peeing, what about the women who suffer yeast infections? Does that not make your hands unclean from wiping?

For those of you who don't wash your hands, do you realize that the person who used the public bathroom before you may have pooped and touched the stall lock and flushed the toilet BEFORE washing their hands? So when you're leaving without washing your hands...get it? It's gross!

A couple of you have mentioned this part. I'm the first "I don't wash after pee, ever" poster.

Here's my reply to you: once I enter the sanctum of the public restroom, at work, Costco, the NJ Turnpike, wherever ... I do not touch anything with my fingers. That's right, nothing. Not the door, not the lock, not the toilet, not the toilet paper holder, not the hook for your purse, not the faucet handle if there is one. Nothing.

I have various quick ways of avoiding skin-to-metal contact when dealing with the doors, locks, etc. I use: the bottom hem of my shirt, a paper towel wrapped around my hand (grabbed as a walked in and headed toward my stall), sometimes i use my foot to flush or kick open a door on my way out.

Whatever it takes. In 20-some years I've become very very fast at this, and very adept with my feet/hips and other non-finger body parts.

So no, I at least and not touching a shitty toilet handle or faucet handle.

I almost never wash at home. But always when I'm out, even if I'm the only one in the bathroom. I have no idea why. And I'm never sick, btw.

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Anonymous wrote:To the people who do not wash:

1) If I peed on my hands in front of you and extended my hand for a hand shake, would you shake it?

2) If I peed on my hand in front of you , dried it off with TP, then extended my hand for a hand shake, would you shake it?

Who pees on their hands? Seriously? When I use the bathroom, I touch my clothing, the toilet paper, and the handle to flush.

A handle that has been touched by people who have wiped poo!

Restaurant workers not washing hands after pooping (or touching poopy surfaces) has led to the increase in Hepatitis A in the USA (don't have to travel to a developing country to acquire that one anymore).

Anonymous wrote:I emphatically do not wash my hands when I (female) pee while in my own home. Ever. Poop, yes.

While out of the house and I think someone will be observing me, I rinse my hands after peeing. If I am the only person in the restroom, then I don't.

I post on these kinds of threads all the time (another is, how often do your kids bathe? how often do your kids wash hands? do you use sanitzer?) So I'll say here, again -- I am never, ever, ever sick. Neither are my kids, although one gets upper respiratory something 1x a year, transmitted by friends sneezing I bet.

At work -- this is gross (what you do at home only affects your family!)!!
At work this:

Do you not realize that other people of have gone #2 and then used those hands to open the stall and touch other things in the bathroom before they wash their hands (IF THEY WASH THEIR HANDS)....
so you touch the poopy door with your sterile pee hands then don't wash...and spread other's poo to the door handle and EVERYTHING ELSE YOU TOUCH IN THE OFFICE!
EWWWWW!!

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, though no one has owned up to being a serial non-handwasher yet, what do you think of the defence that urine is sterile?

Urine is sterile INSIDE the body. It can pick up lots of bacteria upon its exit. Are these people under the impression that urine remains sterile in perpetuity?

OP and hand washer here. Urine can pick up bacteria upon exit but I doubt it will pick up any bacteria within the 20 seconds you take to pee, therefore, when you wipe, you're still touching "sterile" pee. Yes/no?

No. There is a reason you get a prep wipe before giving a urine sample at the doctor's office. To remove the bacteria, etc. that is on your body so it doesn't end up in the sample.

I'm a guy. Never every received a prep wipe before.

*eye roll*

I don't get the eyeroll. Are you a guy who always gets prep wipes before urine samples? I feel cheated now!

Sometimes when I'm in the stall and I see someone walk from the urinal (passing the faucets) towards the door, I want to yell out "You forgot to wash!" but I always chicken out.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here, though no one has owned up to being a serial non-handwasher yet, what do you think of the defence that urine is sterile?

Urine is sterile INSIDE the body. It can pick up lots of bacteria upon its exit. Are these people under the impression that urine remains sterile in perpetuity?

OP and hand washer here. Urine can pick up bacteria upon exit but I doubt it will pick up any bacteria within the 20 seconds you take to pee, therefore, when you wipe, you're still touching "sterile" pee. Yes/no?

No. There is a reason you get a prep wipe before giving a urine sample at the doctor's office. To remove the bacteria, etc. that is on your body so it doesn't end up in the sample.

I'm a guy. Never every received a prep wipe before.

*eye roll*