It's easy to think washing your hands after a trip to the restroom is optional—after all, you only touched your own body parts in there, right? But one of our recent surveys showed that less than two-thirds of men consistently wash their hands after peeing, which is a shockingly low number.
Well, here's an incredibly not-nice statistic: Apparently, 69 percent of men don't wash their hands after using a public bathroom.
Cleaning your private parts after peeing is an important part of overall hygiene. It helps get rid of odors caused by leftover urine droplets and keeps your genitals healthy. Bacteria need warmth and moisture to grow, so keeping the area clean reduces the risk of skin irritation and bladder and yeast infections.
Urine is generally sterile, but bacteria from feces may spread and contaminate surfaces you're unwashed hands touched.
Over half (58%) of US adults say they always wash their hands with soap after going to the restroom at home. A quarter (25%) say they wash with soap most of the time after a trip to the bathroom at home, while 10% do this some of the time and 4 percent rarely do.
Yes, You Still Need to Wash Your Hands When You Use the Bathroom at Home. Here's how to do it right. We all know the drill: After you use the bathroom, you wash your hands. But we're willing to guess that in the comfort of your own home, you've skipped this important post-pee step.
What percent of the population stands to wipe? While a Reddit user surveyed 950 participants—626 identified as male, 306 identified as female, and 18 people put their gender as “other”—they found that 65.7% of respondents wipe sitting down and 34.3% wipe standing up.
The short answer: It's fine to pee in the shower. That's according to Jamin Brahmbhatt, MD, PUR Clinic urologist and Assistant Professor at UCF College of Medicine in Florida, who knows more about urine than most people.
(Two nasty byproducts of ingesting fecal matter are E. Coli and hepatitis.) “So it's wisest to always wash with soap and water even after urinating. Neither plain water nor alcohol hand sanitizers are effective at removing fecal material or killing bacteria in fecal material.”
The men we spoke to argued that there's really no need to wash your hands after urinating, and said the only reason people do so is out of social convention. Many said that they would only wash their hands after going to the toilet if someone else was in the bathroom to play witness to their habit.
“We do know that a male of average height urinating into a traditional toilet while standing,” he writes, “will launch small droplets out of the toilet and onto the floor, cupboards, and shower curtain.” “I have seen splatter marks nearly at eye level. No joke.”
collected answers from 1,500 men aged 20 to 60 and found that a total of 60.9 percent of men prefer to sit. The survey covered only postures for urinating at sit-down toilets and did not consider situations where urinals are also available.
Maybe you don't pee in the shower. But you almost certainly know someone who does: A recent study found that a minority of 48 percent of Americans claim to never do this, while 52 percent of us readily admit to it. And for good reason—peeing in the shower really isn't as gross as it's made out to be.
She said you're actually “creating an association in your brain between the sound of running water and having to pee”. “The combo is going to potentially lead to some leak issues when you hear running water outside of the shower,” she said.
In the aforementioned Deadspin article, it's reported that a College Humor poll of 4,214 participants found that 44 percent stood. Basically, it's highly possible that the person in the stall next to you is standing up and maneuvering toilet paper between their clenched cheeks. Fun.
Wipe backward from the perineum, toward and past the anus. “Wipe gently, and use additional toilet paper until the paper is clean and never scrub the skin around the perineum. If you cannot reach behind your back, reaching in between your legs from the front is fine as long as you wipe from front to back,” says Dr.
Looking at what is on the toilet paper after wiping, done by 37 percent. About 32 percent are thoughtful enough to either spraying air freshener or lighting a match after they are done; and 17 percent like to flush more than once to make sure everything is gone. Others admit to some quirkier tendencies.
In one survey, at least 19 percent of adults admitted to having urinated in a swimming pool. Adults. Not kids. Another survey put that figure as high as 40 percent.
Some men will urinate standing, while others will pee sitting down. And some men will flit between one and the other (not during urination, of course) depending on their mood. One isn't necessarily better than the other, but whichever one you go for needs to be done properly.
Japanese men are increasingly deciding that sitting on the toilet while urinating is the way to go instead of standing where their aim is less accurate or they inadvertently cause a mess due to unintended "splashbacks." A June poll found that just over 60 percent of men prefer to sit, with nearly half having made the ...
Sitting – Germany, Central Europe and Japan
In many countries, including Central Europe or Japan, to pee standing up is considered rude. Many restrooms actually display signs asking you too kindly sit down to urinate.
The reason you feel the urge to pee after ejaculation can be triggered by irritation, prostate problems, or a simple habit. Infections can also be the cause, especially if you have urethral secretions.
“A lot of guys sit to pee if they can't fully evacuate their bladder. When you sit down, you can use your abdominal muscles more, and you get your last few squirts out and feel like you've emptied better.” In fact, this is something that helps Mills diagnose patients who might have problems peeing.
All that pressure from the prostate can increase the risk of bladder cysts, infections, and discomfort or difficulty while urinating. But when men with enlarged prostates pee sitting down, studies suggest they're able to empty their bladders more quickly and effectively, which can reduce some of these problems.
When you do pass stool however, the relaxation of the stronger anal sphincter also decreases tension in the weaker urinary sphincter, allowing urine to pass at the same time. But this isn't always the case – it is possible, but difficult, to do one without doing the other.