Just wipe it with a cotton ball and some rubbing alcohol. You are being weird.
OK, look…germs either like to be moist and warm, or they like to be cool and dry. Anything that lives in a dog’s mouth likes to be moist and warm. Now that the handle has been cool (that is, not body temperature) and dry for several days, there are no more living dog germs on it, okay? They’ve all died, because they can’t handle being cool, much less dry.
You’re far far far far more likely to get sick from the germs on your own hand touching it than you are from the dog.
Hydrogen peroxide should clean it up, and not leave the nastiness of bleach.
Whats wrong with swishing it in the toilet bowel full of that wonderful sterile pee somebody has to always claim is sterile just like they they claim dog saliva is clean. I guess they never heard of yeast infections.
This.
What germs, specifically, are you so afraid of? And more to the point, why are you so tweaked about “germs”? Antiseptic environments are unhealthy, generally.
You do realise that by spending time in a house occupied by dogs, you have “dog germs” all over you now? Right? And, they won’t hurt you. No more than grass germs or dust germs or people germs - in fact your friends’ germs are more of a concern.
Do you have some physical limitations - an auto-immune disease, a crawling baby in your care - that require a sterile environment?
Yeast infections are not caused by urine. They’re caused by yeast. Which, unless something is seriously wrong, is not in your urine, but in your vagina, which is an entirely different hole.
I can’t imagine that pee being sterile sharing the same spigot.
Urine is sterile when it comes out. There is some potential of bacteria contaminating it from the “spigot” as you call it, and I understand that’s part of the reason doctors want you to capture “mid-stream” urine when they ask for a sample.
Of course, sterile (presently free of bacteria) does not equal antibacterial (able to kill bacteria). Urine is a great breeding ground for bacteria once they get into it and it’s not going to kill bacteria. Bleach or hydrogen peroxide should be both sterile and antibacterial.
“Spigot”? I have no idea what you mean. Urine doesn’t pass through the vagina, where the yeast are. Urine passes through the urethra, where the yeast isn’t.
Now, it’s true that if you have a lot of bacteria on your vulva, then some of it will be washed off by the first part of the urine stream, so the urine which is sterile until the second it leaves your body isn’t sterile anymore. But if you clean yourself and then pee, the urine is sterile (unless you have a urinary tract or kidney infection, of course.) That’s how we check to see if you have a UTI infection, actually, called a clean-catch specimen. If there’s bacteria in the clean catch, then you have an infection, because urine should be sterile.
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Take a close look at the handle. I suspect there are no physical contacts between it and the charger, so the handle is likely waterproof; it is a damp environment after all (The charging is probably by inductance - the charger is 1/2 of a transformer and your toothbrush the other 1/2 - no need for the two sets of windings to physically touch).
You don’t use a glass of water to rinse? If you really are that phobic about germs and still want to use your hands, why not wash your hands before you rinse?
Jeez, I thought I was weird because I put my toothbrush in a separate plastic bag when I travel.
If it is an expensive electric toothbrush, it has replaceable heads and the base is waterproof. Wash the base with dishwashing fluid and replace the head. Done.
Frankly, rinsing the handle with water and drying it with a paper towel is all the care you need to take.