Hand Washing After Using The Bathroom

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How do you [i]usually[/i] wash your hands?

  • Always with soap

    Votes: 55 53.4%

  • Only with soap in public

    Votes: 17 16.5%

  • Always with water

    Votes: 17 16.5%

  • Only with water in public

    Votes: 8 7.8%

  • Never

    Votes: 6 5.8%
  • Total voters
    103
Danoff

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Do you wash your hands after using the bathroom? Do you use soap? I'm asking for what you do most of the time. Naturally you're going to wash your hands if something goes wrong.

Read all of the options before you make a selection.
 
Danoff
Read all of the options before you make a selection.
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:confused: Never mind..... Always with soap you mean?

And yes. I always give my hands a good rinse. Never soap; I don't even know if we have any in the bathroom.
 
Always with oap
Old Age Pensioners?

But yeah, always with soap but varying amounts.
 
:lol: Fixed it ;)

For me, always with water, only with soap when required.

Only exception - when I sneeze into my hands. Then, instead of washing my hands, I dash over to UCSD and open lots of doors.
 
I almost never wash my hands when I'm at home. I feel that it should only be necessary when you've actually contaminated yourself. I only rinse in public as a show for others, not for any actual cleaning purposes.

Obviously if something goes... wrong... I'm gonna be using copious quantities of soap (or oap if you prefer).
 
Water at home.

I don't often use public washrooms, they generally disgust me, but when I do I definitely use soap - not out of concern for others, but for myself.
 
Boundary Layer
Water at home.

I don't often use public washrooms, they generally disgust me, but when I do I definitely use soap - not out of concern for others, but for myself.
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Heh, I usually feel that it doesn't make a difference. After all, you've gotta grab that handle on the way out anyway.

When I say public, that includes work/school etc. Surely you can't avoid those.
 
Always with soap. Always. I get almost OCD-like if I don't get to wash my hands after going to the loo - I refuse to touch anything or use whichever hand it is at all until it's had a good wash.
 
I voted "Always with water" but it's closer to "Always with soap". At the risk of TMI, I always use water and forgo the soap if it is simple urination and there were no "offs", but I use soap if there was a little, err, fuel spill. However, if it's defecation, I use soap every time, without fail.
 
This is already interesting. I'm impressed with the number of people rigidly using soap at home despite the knowledge that no "offs" occurred.
 
Sureshot
Washing your hands with water alone surely gets rid of almost zilch germs?
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If there's germs in your urine and on your JT, hand-washing is the least of your concerns.
 
Danoff
Heh, I usually feel that it doesn't make a difference. After all, you've gotta grab that handle on the way out anyway.

When I say public, that includes work/school etc. Surely you can't avoid those.
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You're talking to a guy who's gone non-stop in a car from Winnipeg to Edmonton without needing a restroom.

Presently I live on campus and have my own bathroom in my suite, so barring any emergencies I can just hold it until I'm back here. I'm rarely gone for more than 2 or 3 hours at a time.

But ya, at work I'd use them, no avoiding that.
 
I just heard through a distant source (I may have been eavesdropping) of some sort of Swedish experiment, where a number of subjects had black-light ink placed all over their hindisdes. At the end of the day, they were to be exposed by the black-lights. They went through their normal daily routines of using the bathroom etc etc. When they put on the black-lights at the end of the experiment, the ink had made its way all over their clothes and faces and everything. Even if you are trying to be ultra clean, it is still very hard to completely sterilize yourself.
 
Touring Mars
Only exception - when I sneeze into my hands. Then, instead of washing my hands, I dash over to UCSD and open lots of doors.
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Always with water. I wouldn’t even do the water part, except that I have to touch three things on my way to the faucet (flushy handle thing, light switch, and doorknob), and I don’t live alone.
 
When I'm at home I wash my hands usually just with water, sometimes with soap.

When outside in public places I always wash my hands with soap... if there is a place you can find to wash them!

Robin
 
I always wash with soap. This stuff:

Only exception is if I'm in a public restroom that looks like their hand-washing facilities would do me more harm that good. This of course means that I would never poop there, as hand-washing after pooping, like Duke said, is imperative.
 
Duke
At the risk of TMI, I always use water and forgo the soap if it is simple urination and there were no "offs", but I use soap if there was a little, err, fuel spill. However, if it's defecation, I use soap every time, without fail.
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Exactly what I do :lol:
 
Always soap, assuming it is available. We have two types of soap at home, my wife's strawberry scented stuff and my foaming hand wash. But I also wipe up the seat after urination so even then there is a chance that something got on my hands.

It isn't an OCD thing as it is usually only after bathroom usage that I use soap. I use sanitizer at my desk when I feel I may have come into contact with others who aren't especially clean or after coughing and sneezing myself. That last bit is more of a courtesy to others.


I should also note that my doctors can't stress enough that I should attempt being as sterile as possible.
 
I use soap and HOT water... ALWAYS! EXCESSIVELY!

What do you all do AFTER your hands are clean!? You still gotta get out of the bathroom without touching anything. :dopey:

I don't think this poll is going to work... nobody is going to openly admit to not washing their hands.
 
At home I don't use soap very often, usually if I'm cooking, and thats about it. It just feels so unnecessary when you're using hot water.

So, yeah, I voted "Soap only in Public," as it normally is quite dirty out there, and it would be a shame not to use it.

Omnis
I always wash with soap. This stuff:
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Ha! We've got that stuff in my bathroom as well, although, its not like I'm using it...
 
V1P3R
What do you all do AFTER your hands are clean!? You still gotta get out of the bathroom without touching anything. :dopey:
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Fortunately the work bathrooms actually open out so you can just back into the door or use your elbows, surgeon style. Or I hang on to the paper towel I use to dry my hands with and use that to open the door, especially at restaurants. I don't want other people's residual poo particles getting on my hands just before I go to eat.

If they don't have paper towels then I just use my hands. As I said I'm not OCD.
 
I'm OCD because of stuff like this...

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The first problem is that surveillance cameras have repeatedly shown that less than half of people in public rest rooms wash their hands at all. The second is that they do it wrong. Dr. Tierno says the proper way is to use lots of soap, scrub for 30 seconds and then repeat the process.
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Things I didn't want to know...

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Also, by adopting the attitude that germs are not going to win the death struggle, he said, people may actually help strengthen their immune systems. ''Good attitude helps,'' he said. ''Denial doesn't.''
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I don't quite get what they are saying here.
 
Urine is sterile and i generally know where my penis has been, so i almost never wash my hands in the bathroom.

In the other case, i always wash my hands with soap and water.
 
I live in an apartment with roommates, so I'll rinse to be courteous. In public I usually use soap, unless I'm really in a rush.
 

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