Do you honestly wash your hands after going to the bathroom?

I never used to. Seriously. I actually really used to take pride in that. With my friends in public, I would go as far as turning on the faucett and purposely NOT touch the water. And I made sure they saw. I always got a laugh out of it.|||ugh lol only 50% of the time...ok a lil more than half the time i do wash my hands...its gross though:-P but sometimes i just don;t bother|||Yes I do, every time.|||I do at work, but I don%26#039;t at home.





And yet, despite not washing my hands all the time, somehow I don%26#039;t get as sick as others who do.|||boo f*cking hoo. i do not have OCD! i don%26#039;t get anything on my hands, and i never get sick. LOL|||YES.!!! omg youre the reason why even after us normal people wash our hands we hold on to that paper towel for dear life to turn the faucet off and open those darn pull the door handle. we don%26#039;t want your piss on our hands too! gross!|||Yes you should. End of story|||When I was younger,


I used to be lazy about washing my hands.


And for some strange reason, I was always


catching every cold and flu bug that came around!


Then I decided to be more diligent about washing


my hands and guess-what?


I hardly ever catch colds and the flu anymore!


Who-Knew?|||if im in a publis restroom i will definitly. but at home, its not always necessary for me. i will sometimes though just because its more sanitary but, eh.|||I really do wash my hands EVERY single time I go to the bathroom.





Especially at work; the toilet is the cleanest thing in a public bathroom... everything else you have to touch, like the door handle and flush handle is FILTHY. Plus with all the door handles and stuff we touch during the day, it%26#039;s good to wash your hands a few times a day anyway. Even if the act of going to the bathroom didn%26#039;t bring you in contact with germs, it would be good to wash your hands while you were there by the sinks.|||Yes, I do, and I rarely get sick and have no communicable diseases.





Think about what%26#039;s on that faucet the next time you put your hands on your private parts...|||somtimes I dont when I go number one I dont always to though.|||Yes, of course.|||ewww.. thank god you are not my friend!





YES.. YES.. YES..|||99% of the time I do. The only exceptions are a) in the middle of the night--I don%26#039;t want to stand there and wash my hands when I could be back in my warm bed, and it%26#039;s not like I%26#039;m going to touch anything anyway, and b) if I%26#039;m using the bathroom and I hear the kids starting to fight/cry because they%26#039;re hurt, etc., I%26#039;ll run out to check on them then wash my hands in the kitchen. This rarely happens though.|||Heck yeah everytime and if I see someone not washing their hands after coming out of the bathroom like relatives, I tell them. Once, I saw a Burger King employee come out of the bathroom and went right back to fixing the food without washing her hands, of course I didn%26#039;t eat there--I left.|||I ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS wash my hands after the bathroom. I wash them after grocery shopping and pumping gas too.


I got sepsis once and very nearly died. Sepsis is a horible blood infection that I got because someone didn%26#039;t wash their hands after going to the bathroom and then preparing my food.|||Absolutely yes.


I feel like there is literally a layer of germs and crap covering my hands and I can%26#039;t leave the room without washing my hands and opening the door with a paper towel|||Great way to spread disease, especially if you cook/prepare food after you don%26#039;t wash your hands. Try getting fecal matter in your food, hopefully survive, pay the doctor bill and then take pride in not washing your hands.





Yes, I wash my hands after I use the restroom.|||ALWAYS! It grosses me out if I don%26#039;t, and it%26#039;s my own stuff! I even turn the water off and open the door with a paper towel, because of people who do what you used to :o)|||You should always wash your hands after using a restroom. First of all, there are so many germs in a public restroom! Do you know that when you flush a toilet, feces and urine spray all over the place!?!?! GROSS! I wash my hands every time I use. Now, when I%26#039;m in my house, I won%26#039;t wash them if I just take a tinkle and I don%26#039;t plan on cooking. But you should always wash them after the other!|||of its just peeing and im home chilling then no





shrugs*|||If you knew what microscopic bugs crawled on each surface you touched and what those bug could do to you. You would wash your hands more. Trust me. Go visit a hospital sometime and ask a nurse. I wash my hands bathroom or not. Consequently its been years since I had a cold.|||I can%26#039;t ever leave the bathroom without washing my hands|||YES i do. i am part of the antiseptic society!|||Didn%26#039;t too much until worked with a former nurse who showed me how she washed her hands very frequently during the day, including always after restrooms. She very rarely got sick and we worked with a lot of people. She said alot of people forget to scrub the the tops of their hands, too. Also they should put their fingers between each other like you are praying and wash there. My mom says sing, %26quot;Happy Birthday%26quot; so it%26#039;s long enough, but articles usually say about 20 seconds of washing.


Also, she would say that we should insist that doctors wash their hands if they come into your hospital room if they don%26#039;t. There is a sink there for that purpose, so they don%26#039;t carry staph, etc. , etc., person to person to person.


If you use hand sanitizer, someone else told me you can use it before you are with people who are sick, too, to protect against germs, as well as afterwards. Was told to use the sanitizer twice at a time as the % alcohal is not high enough to be totally effective otherwise.|||Absolutely! I do enjoy eating you know. I care about those i touch. I wouldn%26#039;t want to leave germs everywhere and make those I love terribly ill. Particularly now that they have the SUPER BUG popping up! It%26#039;s called MRSA! Google it!|||I didn%26#039;t always do it but I always do it now because I know that it is the better decision. Whatever u might think, you don%26#039;t want to carry whatever is in the restroom back to whatever u were doing. Our hands were made so we could frequently wash them. We are meant to wash them or you might find yourself with some funky illness or skin condition. Do yourself and others a favour and please wash after. It doesn%26#039;t take long...You%26#039;ve got everything to gain and nothing to lose, right?|||Yes, I do.





We are civilized, we all should.





If not because you want to, then for the sake of sanitation and good hygiene|||Not only do I wash my hands after, but I wash them before I go. You never know what is on your hands and if the germs can spread to your private parts. I also use a paper towel to open/close the stall door. If you think of it, someone just wiped and then touched the lock to go out and wash. Yuck! I don%26#039;t want someone elses pee on my hands (even for a minute) till I go and wash.


Please, for your sake and that of your friends, wash.|||Yes i seriously do... eww dude.|||I used to when I was really young and didn%26#039;t know much about bacteria, now that I know, I wash my hands about 30 times a day regardless of whether I use the washroom or not, just a sanitary thing. It is possible to get HIV/Aids from not washing hands and then shaking or touching there hands, so please wash your hands after each time you use the bathroom.