Toilet Question from a germ-freak!

[1rockinmamato2]

I flush with my foot. And I hover. Public restrooms, shopping carts, and the pens provided to sign after a debit or credit card transaction give me the heebie jeebies.

Thank goodness for hand sanitizer, soap and water!

I do have a question though about the seat covers since potty training days are ahead for me. When you use a potty seat cover/liner, how do you dispose of it? I just don't understand how, if I'm concerned about sitting on the toilet seat or having my child sit on the toilet seat, I am then going to remove it with my hand after it's been on the toilet seat? I hope that makes sense. How do you all handle that?

 

[ellenmiele]

I thought everyone flushes with their foot. In microbiology class, we had to culture toilets. The inside of the toilet, was actually cleaner than the handle. The handles rarely get cleaned, and not too many people have germs on the back of their legs, (when they do the deed). But alot of folks have yucky hands I guess and after they wipe, they use their hand to flush. Same as shopping carts. Thanks goodness for antibacterial gel. We cultured handles on the shopping carts at a local grocer and yeach!! gross stuff on there.

Exaxtly - we all need to worry alot more about what our hands touch than what our butts touch! I'd sooner sit on the seat than touch the handle - or the doorknob or the faucets or....whatever.

 

[MommaPooh217]

I got some like that from Classy Kid and the adhesive is SO strong that it always leaves a chunk of the plastic liner stuck to the seat. Last thing I want to do is sit and pick the remains off the toilet seat! (but I don't want to leave the sticky stuff on the seat for others, ya know?!)

How are the Potty Toppers in that regard?

RE the pricing at Target.com - it looks like they have various themes on them and if you get the balloon theme it's the least expensive choice.

They are pretty good in that regard as long as you don't rip them quickly up from the seat, just pull easy and they come right off.

Blessed Be,
Tina

 

[jenrein]

Who DOESNT flush with their foot? Just the thought of touching the flusher gives me the heeby jeebys

 

[TravelinGal]

Who DOESNT flush with their foot? Just the thought of touching the flusher gives me the heeby jeebys

uggh - my DS(2) - he LOVES to flush. He has a hold of that nasty handle before I can stop him half the time (as I struggle to get my clothes in order and he flushes while I'm still seated!)
Very thorough hand scrubbing occurs in all our public bathroom visits. (more basic washing at home as opposed to the deep cleansing after he touches a public toilet - but I AM trying to teach him to always wash after going potty)

 

[seashoreCM]

(copied from another post)

Bring a wet paper towel into the stall.

Wipe off the seat with dry toilet paper, then with the wet paper towel, then with more dry toilet paper.

Alternative: Get some of those alcohol swabs/wipes like they use to wipe on your arm before you get a shot. Use one of those to wipe the seat after wiping off droplets of water with the dry toilet paper.

>>> hover

There is this exercise done in tai-chi and pilates classes sometimes referred to as "the air chair". You hold a sitting position with no chair under your backside. How long can you hold that position?

>>> porous

IMHO there is no danger resulting from the porosity of the paper seat covers. The thickness of the paper compared to the size of the bacteria is comparable to a person's having to climb up two stories to reach what is above.

Disney hints: http://members.aol.com/ajaynejr/disney.htm

 

[SnowWhite12]

I flush with my foot. And I hover. Public restrooms, shopping carts, and the pens provided to sign after a debit or credit card transaction give me the heebie jeebies.

Thank goodness for hand sanitizer, soap and water!

I do have a question though about the seat covers since potty training days are ahead for me. When you use a potty seat cover/liner, how do you dispose of it? I just don't understand how, if I'm concerned about sitting on the toilet seat or having my child sit on the toilet seat, I am then going to remove it with my hand after it's been on the toilet seat? I hope that makes sense. How do you all handle that?

If you use the toilet liner provided in the bathroom, part of it hangs in the toilet, and then it flushes down automatically. You don't have to touch it after you've gone.

 

[Zoesmama03]

They have always been acceptable when I've gone to any park.


People always are afraid of the toilet but I've heard that when the toliet is flushed the germs fly out several feet so its in the air and everywhere.

We can't avoid it completely but of course if you can SEE stuff on the toilet eww.

I'm not much of a germ phobe but still gross is gross.

 

[TravelinGal]

Thank goodness for hand sanitizer, soap and water!

I do have a question though about the seat covers since potty training days are ahead for me. When you use a potty seat cover/liner, how do you dispose of it? I just don't understand how, if I'm concerned about sitting on the toilet seat or having my child sit on the toilet seat, I am then going to remove it with my hand after it's been on the toilet seat? I hope that makes sense. How do you all handle that?

If it's a non-flushable seat cover then you just remove it from the top. You don't need to touch the plastic liner side that was on the seat. Throw it in the 'femine hygene' trash can.
Then wash hands as normal.

 

[zoemurr]

but we all flush with our feet here too.. no way I'm touching a public toilet handle.

 

[Aristomommy]

I remember an interesting show on this topic. What I gathered from it was that if the seat is dry, most if not all bacteria has died within the time the previous person has left and you enter the stall. Also, use the first stall, if possible as it is usually the cleanest. Most people if given a choice will choose a stall away from the door for privacy. I am more concerned about the flushing and the door handle when leaving, than when I am sitting down.

 

[raestr]

I always pull off a couple of squares of tissue to push the toilet handle and then I throw them in the toilet real quick so they go down with everything else.

Do they sell the seat covers in the local Target stores, or only on-line?

Thanks,
Rae

 

[dodukes]

Yep Guilty of it all here, i am a foot flusher and a hoverer!...LOL...but yes if theres any mess made it does get cleaned up but for hte life of me i cant figure out how people make them if done right..lol. I dont think I have ever sat on a public toilet. The most i had to do was i was super sick on our cruise and i had to sit so in my sickness i was ccleaning the toilet. I was from the hover and foot flush era of growing up. Era is the wrong word but you all know what i mean. And i dont even use the toilet seta covers those give me the jeebies too, i just hoever for everything. If i am on vacation for 2 weeks, then i hover for 2 weeks. I just cant see it any other way..lol. Ill add that i am extremely germophobic tho and yes i too HATE to touch public door hanldes and the pens at the bank, yuck!!