Another bathroom handwashing question

[teacups]

If you saw a friend or co-worker exit the stall and NOT wash, would you think differently of them afterwards? I had this happen, and I never wanted use this girls phone, pen, etc again. And I NEVER got near anything she brought to potlucks! (And she decorated wedding cakes as a side job!!!! )

 

[ilovepcot]

Unless I saw that she used a "wipe" after immediately leaving the restroom I'd always have the incident in the back of my mind. I'm a huge germaphobe and wash my hands till they're raw sometimes...not all at once, but sometimes, depending on activities throughout the day, much hand washing (in my opinion) is needed.

A man died in the town next to mine a couple of years back. A family made potato salad for a church function and one of the ladies making the salad didn't wash her hands after using the bathroom. After an autopsy was done and testing of food, it was shown that the potato salad contained bacteria that would be present only through inadequate handwashing after having a BM. Wow!!! So, for the people who think skipping handwashing is no big deal, it sometimes can be a "deadly deal".

 

[mybestieismickey]

Um...eeew! You better believe it would change the way I think about someone. That doesn't mean you can't still be friends, just don't be sharing friends.

 

[alexandria674]

I would be grossed out. I have some Dial constantly on me so I would either offer her some or always use it on my hands.

 

[Mysteria]

I am allerigic to many bathroom soaps etc. I clean my hands with purell or that type cleaner. I will NEVER NOT clean my hands. Though many people may think so becuase they don't see me use the soap in whatever facility.

 

[turkeymama]

I'm kind of vocal about some things When I see people I know skip hand-washing after the bathroom, I give a gentle "Oh, you forgot to wash your hands". Then I immediately blame my comment on the fact that I have children and constantly remind them, even though my children never need reminding about that.

I would never say anything to a stranger though. It's much better to make faces and comments about them when they leave.

 

[turkeymama]

I am allerigic to many bathroom soaps etc. I clean my hands with purell or that type cleaner. I will NEVER NOT clean my hands. Though many people may think so becuase they don't see me use the soap in whatever facility.

My daughter was in first grade with a boy who shared your problem. He had his own cleaner in the classroom.

 

[Mysteria]

My daughter was in first grade with a boy who shared your problem. He had his own cleaner in the classroom.

God bless him. He will go through years of ridicule. I learned to just do the water and dry thing to make people happy before I got to the point that I used hand sanitizer at the sink and if that is not good enough then DARN them.

 

[Ember]

I am allerigic to many bathroom soaps etc. I clean my hands with purell or that type cleaner. I will NEVER NOT clean my hands. Though many people may think so becuase they don't see me use the soap in whatever facility.

I'm not allergic to soap, but there are certain scents that give me headaches. If I smell a strong floral scent from the soap I will wash my hands in water, dry them, and then use a hand sanitizer. It doesn't happen often, but it does happen. I'm sure if someone was watching closely, they might notice I didn't use the soap... But I always disinfect my hands, even if they don't see me do it.

I also know people with eczema that soap might aggravate. So I don't think I would automatically assume the worst of someone.

 

[Stacerita]

If I notice someone at work not washing their hands, I avoid having anything they bring for potluck, and really think twice about borrowing pens and such.

 

[Phedre]

My team at work stopped going to floor-wide potlucks due to seeing co-workers' bathroom habits. If those were the kind of things they were willing to do in public, what the heck might they doing in the privacy of their own homes. So very gross.

 

[I'mNoPrince]

I have to go into many businesses during my travels. I never wash My hands in the Bathrooms. I just feel this is a huge place to pick up more germs then I leave with. I also don't use Phones any more either. I have been doing this job for 24 years now and since ten I hardly get sock anymore.

Now before you all freak out I carry Waterless soap wipes in my Toolbag and use that right from the bathroom . I don;t touch a thing until I use one. I also carry waterless soap ina bottle and use that before I drive away from all my accounts. The hospitals I go into are the worse and i try to touch as little as possible when in there.

I mean most soap things are plunger type so you touch your junk and then touch that to wash your hands no thank you . Now if it's a totally automated (sensor) based bathroom both soap and water then I do as I'm not touching anything.

 

[tennvalgirl]

I see women not washing their hands all the time at work, while shopping, restaurants, and I am ALWAYS surprised.

I was naive enough to think that only men would do something so disgusting.

I was WRONG

 

[barkley]

do those of you who wash your hands in a public restroom rewash them after putting your hand on the door handle to exit or the entrance handle to close it? or get your paper towel from the dispenser before you've washed your hands? if you don't then you've re-exposed your hands to germs which is why some of us choose to exit the washroom using a paper towel or a peice of tissue to open the door, and then use hand sanitizer outside.

 

[Macca1111]

do those of you who wash your hands in a public restroom rewash them after putting your hand on the door handle to exit or the entrance handle to close it? or get your paper towel from the dispenser before you've washed your hands?

I reuse that paper towel that I've already grabbed to open the door - darn well better be a trash can by the door too so I can toss it immediately. It's best if the door swings out so I can just push with an elbow or foot, but I use a paper towel or something else if I have to touch the handle. I wouldn't have to go to such extreme measures if I hadn't seen SO many women walk straight out the door. EEEEWWWWW!!!! Plus, using just hand sanitizer just kills the germs - it does not clean off whatever was there, so I always think handwashing is best.

 

[turkeymama]

do those of you who wash your hands in a public restroom rewash them after putting your hand on the door handle to exit or the entrance handle to close it? or get your paper towel from the dispenser before you've washed your hands? if you don't then you've re-exposed your hands to germs which is why some of us choose to exit the washroom using a paper towel or a peice of tissue to open the door, and then use hand sanitizer outside.

Yes, I do. Prior to getting married, I worked with preschool children for almost 7 years. One of our work requirements was going to various workshops and one of those was a 3 hour class on hygiene. We could have been cited and fined by the state board or the health department, as a daycare center, for cleaning our hands or the kids' hands with sanitizer alone.

 

[disney1990]

I will not use the soap in a public bathroom if I know that it is an antibacterial soap. The main ingredient in these products, Triclosan, is actually a pesticide. Would you wash your hands with a pesticide?

http://www.beyondpesticides.org/pesticides/factsheets/Triclosan cited.pdf

I do, however, always use a hand sanitizer if that is the case.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

I am allerigic to many bathroom soaps etc. I clean my hands with purell or that type cleaner. I will NEVER NOT clean my hands. Though many people may think so becuase they don't see me use the soap in whatever facility.

I'm allergic to all hand sanitizers and almost all soaps. I carry my own soap (the only one I've found that I can use) with me.

 

[PatsMom]

I carry my own soap with me too. I don't like the hand sanitizers and I don't like the bathroom soap dispenser stuff either. So I use a little refillable bottle and just put some regular softsoap handsoap in it. Works great and it is much easier on my hands than the harsh soaps often found in public bathrooms.

At work though I use the soap in the bathroom. We are a small company and have two individual uni-sex bathrooms. We are divided among germaphobes and those who perfer not to use anti-bacterial soap. So we have two bottles of liquid soap available at the sink.

 

[cteddiesgirl]

do those of you who wash your hands in a public restroom rewash them after putting your hand on the door handle to exit or the entrance handle to close it? or get your paper towel from the dispenser before you've washed your hands? if you don't then you've re-exposed your hands to germs which is why some of us choose to exit the washroom using a paper towel or a peice of tissue to open the door, and then use hand sanitizer outside.

Now, I do wash my hands after going, but,

You know, it really doesn't matter unless you're going to also strip down and wash your clothes every time you finish using the bathroom. You touch your clothes after you go so you can pull up your pants and pull down your shirt, right? Those germs are now on your clothes.

Think about it.