For those of you who claim you don’t need to wash your hands since you touched nothing in the bathroom, consider this. Although you didn’t touch anything in the bathroom, did you shake hands with anyone since you last used the facilities? Did you touch a shared object, like an office doorknob, a copy machine keypad, a shopping cart handle or a telephone receiver? It’s just good practice to wash your hands when you’re already in a room with a sink.
I wash my hands, but I don’t use the soap. I’ve always heard of guys using the soap dispenser to do their business, instead of the toilet.
How the hell can they manage THAT, unless they’re mega talented contortionists?
Really. From my nursing training I know that anyone using normal hand washing techniques would be failed. How do you turn off the non-sterile taps after you have washed your hands? How do you dry your hands if not by an air drier? Who opens the doors for you or do you touch the non-sterile handles?
I’ll stick to my method thanks.
Christ. Is this actually becoming a debate on whether washing your hands after going to the bathroom is necessary?
Ew!
Today’s Frazz is oddly appropriate.
I’m not really sure how it happens, but after hearing about it I will never be able to trust a soap dispenser again.
Okay, according to the sheet that’s up in the bathrooms:
1 germ can multiply into 4 million in 8 hours.
The number of germs on your hands DOUBLES after you use the toilet. (Note it said “use the toilet”, not “touch your genitals” or whatever.)
700 million germs can hide under a ring on one’s finger.
Wash your hands, peeps.
Think that’s bad?
I was having dental work done at a university dental school and I was in the ladies and one of the dental supervisors that checks the dental student’s work used the restroom and didn’t wash her hands.
I told my dentist to mark it in my chart or do what he had to do but I didn’t want that woman to be within a 100 feet of me or my mouth.
Good lord - I don’t even know why this is a debate. It’s a good idea to wash your hands throughout the day. After you wee, is as good a time as any. If you then go back to your office and use hand sanitizer too, great. But for the love of pete, throw us hand washers a bone and at least splash some water around.
I mean EW!!
I use sufficient paper that there is zero contact between what I’m removing and me. I do this because I don’t want germs on my hands from coming into contact with my own waste.
Look at what don’t ask said:
In short, there’s no logic saying that the hand-washing is doing what you think it’s doing - touching all the unclean items on the way out that you touched on the way in undoes what you just did, and then you go on to add more germs. I think this is one more situation where, despite any information or proof to the contrary, people are acting on feelings rather than logic.
I agree that one ought wash one’s hands periodically. I don’t agree that using the washroom, if one is careful, necessitates that it be done at that time.
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Think that’s bad?
Not anymore! :eek:
Again, it has nothing to do with touching yourself, or whatever. But hey, whatever makes sense in your own little world.