This is especially likely in public bathrooms, which are often high-traffic areas that may or may not be cleaned regularly. All that said, you should always wash your hands with soap and water after peeing, says Newman. It's the best way to reduce the risk of getting sick or spreading germs to others.
Your hands can have as much germs on them or be as dirty as you want, and they will be fine. Your wiener on the other hand, gets easily infected. It would make more sense to wash your hands before you go pee so you don't make your wiener all dirty. Scenario #1: How dirty does it get down there?
“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.”
Dear J.D.: I think you are wise to wash your hands twice: Before using the restroom to protect yourself from what germs you might have collected on your hands, and afterward to wash off the bacteria that we all have on our skin.
It's always good practice to wash your hands before and after you pee.
Should guys wipe after they pee? While most men are content with shaking after they pee, it's a good idea to make a small wipe or dab to ensure that there is no remaining urine. This will help keep your urethra and your undies clean!
Since we have to use our hands for that, it would be hygienic to wash our hands later to make sure there is no bacteria transfer.
Here's a little primer. Wash your hands with soap and water for a minimum of 20 seconds—about the length of the song Happy Birthday sung twice, Tierno recommends. Make sure to scrub both sides of your hands, in between your fingers, and under your nail beds (because they're probably pretty gross anyway).
Keeping hands clean is one of the most important steps we can take to avoid getting sick and spreading germs to others. Many diseases and conditions are spread by not washing hands with soap and clean, running water. Feces (poop) from people or animals is an important source of germs like Salmonella, E.
"Urine contains urea, which is an exfoliant that gives the skin some turnover and breaks it up," explains Dr. Sejal Shah, a dermatologic surgeon based in New York. "What's interesting about urea is that it's also a humectant, so it can retain moisture as well.
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.
Dr Diana Gall, of leading online medical service Doctor 4 U, said: 'It's important for men to wash their hands after urinating regardless of whether their hands came into contact with urine or not due to the bacteria associated with urinals and bathroom toilets in general.
The gender gap closes, though, in places like baths and showers, where more discretion is available. So, Allie, you're pretty normal to have let yourself go in the shower (albeit slightly less normal for indulging quite so often).
This is totally normal — it's called female ejaculation. About 10 percent of women sometimes spurt a clear fluid from the urethra during intense sexual excitement or during orgasm.
"When urine leaves the body, oddly we get a drop in blood pressure, which then causes activation of the sympathetic nervous system to increase the heart rate and vascular tone, which then restores the drop in blood pressure.
There's an old wives' tale that peeing in the shower is a good way to prevent or treat athlete's foot, a.k.a. foot fungus. It's important to note that “there is no published evidence that urinating in the shower may help to prevent foot fungus or is a prescribed therapy to treat foot fungus,” Glatter says.
Unlike in developed countries, most public toilets in China do not provide toilet paper onsite and users must bring their toilet paper. Moreover, an open waste bin is placed in each user's cubicle to collect used toilet paper and tissues.
Peeing in the ocean is totally fine, but don't pee in protected areas like reefs or smaller bodies of water, especially swimming pools.
In addition, as gross as it might sound, surveys have shown that around 70% of all people pee in the shower. That urine can become trapped if not cleaned away properly, causing an ammonia smell to build.
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.
Not only are women (81%) more likely than men (72%) to describe themselves as very clean rather than just clean, they are also more likely to consider the tested hygiene habits very important.
“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.”
Martha Christy, author of In Your Own Perfect Medicine, claims that putting your own urine on your face — dubbed "urotherapy" — can help reduce the appearance of acne, eczema, and other skin conditions because pee contains minerals and nutrients.
She explains: "Urine contains urea and uric acid, which is an exfoliant. [The] use of an exfoliant on a daily basis tricks the skin into thinking it's wounded and boosts collagen production. This is true of most topical skin-care products that contain salicylic, glycolic, and fruit acids."
Dr Sejal Shah, a dermatologic surgeon based in New York, warned against using urine on the face because it can cause reactions, and it isn't effective enough to take the risk. ”Urine is primarily water and there's very little urea in it.