Re: It amazes me how many people don't wash their hands after using the bathroom

So disgusting This is why I use paper towels to open bathroom doors and people look at me like I'm the strange one.

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Message edited 1/13/2009 8:50:31 AM.

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I'm curious what everyone thinks about my link above and here again.

Message edited 1/13/2009 12:09:50 PM.

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I always wash my hands, no matter what. I have a thing about germs. But after washing my hands, I dry them off in the bathroom and I use the papertowel to open the door, because I don't want to touch that gross handle that has god only knows what on it. I then throw the papertowel out after I have opened the door. The trash can is right at the door.

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See- I am FAR from a germophobe. And I know that my desk, my mouse, my laptop, my pen etc- are TEEMING with germs.
And I'm rarely sick.

But I think the whole bathroom thing is what grosses me out.
Your hands are dangerously close to some dicey parts of your body when you use the toilet.
Is it that hard to wash up afterwards?
And what about when people have their periods- and are changing tampons? I would REALLY like to think that they are washing after THAT!

Message edited 1/13/2009 12:20:58 PM.

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I'm far from a germaphobe, but it boggles my mind that people don't wash their hands after using a public restroom.

Even if all you did was pee, the person before you might have done...well, more than that. Now you've touched the same stall handle that they touched after wiping their ***, so you probably got microscopic bits of poo on your hands.

I'll take dry skin over poo hands any day.

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Posted by anonttcer

See- I am FAR from a germophobe. And I know that my desk, my mouse, my laptop, my pen etc- are TEEMING with germs.
And I'm rarely sick.

But I think the whole bathroom thing is what grosses me out.
Your hands are dangerously close to some dicey parts of your body when you use the toilet.
Is it that hard to wash up afterwards?
And what about when people have their periods- and are changing tampons? I would REALLY like to think that they are washing after THAT!

Message edited 1/13/2009 12:26:06 PM.

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Posted by kristinel

Posted by anonttcer

See- I am FAR from a germophobe. And I know that my desk, my mouse, my laptop, my pen etc- are TEEMING with germs.
And I'm rarely sick.

But I think the whole bathroom thing is what grosses me out.
Your hands are dangerously close to some dicey parts of your body when you use the toilet.
Is it that hard to wash up afterwards?
And what about when people have their periods- and are changing tampons? I would REALLY like to think that they are washing after THAT!

Yes, but this study has shown that the bathroom is actually cleaner than any other place in the office. Therefore, you should be more skeeved out outside of the bathroom than in the bathroom.

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Hygiene Hypothesis: Are We Too "Clean" for Our Own Good?

Increased hygiene and a lack of exposure to various microorganisms may be affecting the immune systems of many populations - particularly in highly developed countries like the US - to the degree that individuals are losing their bodily ability to fight off certain diseases.

That's the essence of the "hygiene hypothesis," a fairly new school of thought that argues that rising incidence of asthma, inflammatory bowel disease, multiple sclerosis and perhaps several other diseases may be, at least in part, the result of lifestyle and environmental changes that have made us too "clean" for our own good.

Link here.

Message edited 1/13/2009 12:39:06 PM.

Re: It amazes me how many people don't wash their hands after using the bathroom

Perhaps they washed their hands and then ran their hands through their hair or something, to tame the hair?
Also playing devil's advocate.

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Posted by headoverheels

Posted by bird382

I'll take dry skin over poo hands any day.

ITA!!

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I totally believe in the "hygeine hypothesis" but disagree that the issue is caused (at all or in part) by washing up after using the bathroom.

There's a big difference between proper basic hygeine and the overuse of hand sanitizers and antibacterial everything by healthy people.

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My hands get soooo dry from washing..So dry, the crack..This is still NO excuse not to wash them after I use the bathroom AND after I change diapers.
If by some chance, we're out in public and there's no soap, I use the water, dry, and I ALWAYS have sanitizer in my pocketbook.
I remember in 4th grade, our bathrooms were in the classroom. Our teacher would NOT let us back to our desks until he observed we went over to the sink and washed WITH soap.
I thank him to this day for being so anal about the handwashing.