Do you wash your hands everytime you use the restroom? This goes for both sexes. I don't care whether its number 1 or 2. I'm curious to know for some sick reason...and keep it clean.:)

Everytime! No exceptions.

Every time :) hand washing has become a ritual in our house; you learn it after spending time in the NICU. It becomes a bigger habit than nail biting.

Same here here everytime:)

Only when I drip ;)

Originally posted by Midnight
Only when I drip ;) I feel ya.;)

I try and wash everytime but sometimes I am in a really big rush...

...or lazy.:)

Everytime. If I am out in the woods and there is no water I'll skip it. But I carry baby wipes.

to all who don't say every time, i have one word for you: EWWWWW


i had this friend in high school, and since girls travel in packs to the restroom, we were in our schools bathroom. and i was already waiting by the door and i watched her leave the stall and walk out without washing her hands.. and i think it is way worse for a girl doing that-- especially because we know guys do gross things, but girls are supposed to be the sensible and hygenic ones... :o

but still, i think everyone need to wash their hands after visiting a restroom

:werd:

I see that two people voted other yet didn't explain themselves...








....DIE!!!:mad:

did you know that toilets (even public ones) are usually more hygenic than public phones or doorknobs etc?

scary....

Originally posted by tam
did you know that toilets (even public ones) are usually more hygenic than public phones or doorknobs etc?

scary.... Yea I've heard that too...

...one of those mystery facts.:)

Originally posted by tam
did you know that toilets (even public ones) are usually more hygenic than public phones or doorknobs etc?

scary....

Haha - after I wash my hands, I use the paper towel to shut off the water & open the door in a public restroom.

Everytime for me as well.

I figure, if I dont piss all over my hands, and I have taken a shower within the last 15 hours, it wont do me much harm to skip a thorough washing. Unless I'm gonna be making food, or shakin hands with people or something like that. A lot of times ill just splash my hands with water at most :shrug:

Everytime. It's gotta be S.O.P. in my line of work.

Originally posted by CatDancer


Haha - after I wash my hands, I use the paper towel to shut off the water & open the door in a public restroom.

Everytime for me as well.

Me too ! Just imagine whats on the faucets too, so I use paper towels to turn them on, people can stare, I don't care. I really don't like restrooms with blow hand dryers, no paper towels. who

Originally posted by CatDancer


Haha - after I wash my hands, I use the paper towel to shut off the water & open the door in a public restroom.
Oh come one...

...live a little.

I wash my hands before i touch it. :) It pays to be hygenic.

Originally posted by Noddy
I wash my hands before i touch it. :) It pays to be hygenic.

I like to think that my penis is the cleanest part of my body. I'm not worried about it getting my hands dirty.

Oh yes, and as the official DA urine guru, I'd just like to remind all that urine is sterile in properly functioning systems. You're more likely to dislodge some nasties from your hands with a good stream of urine than to do nothing.:)

Justin

It still stinks yuk.

Go wear a nappy or sumthin, for god's sake man, do it for your country.

Originally posted by Noddy
It still stinks yuk.

Go wear a nappy or sumthin, for god's sake man, do it for your country.

Or just give a passing-by friend a pat on the back on your trip immediately following your micturition.:D

Justin

http://164-26.ovcnet.uoguelph.ca/LaMarre/Micturition

MICTURITION: "The reaction that ultimately occurs when the bladder is gradually distended, leading to the coordinated expulsion of its contents."

(Handbook of Veterinary Neurology, 3rd edition, pp. 73 - 88).



The "micturition reflex" is a complex integration of parasympathetic (most important), sympathetic and somatic pathways extending from the bladder, pelvic plexus, sacral segments of the spinal cord to the pons and cerebral cortex.



Actually, not a single reflex at all, but a coordinated response of multiple pathways which results in urination.


The most important reflex components of the process of micturition are 1) the detrusor reflex (a parasympathetic reflex), 2) the urethral sphincter reflex (a somatic reflex).


To some extent, these reflexes can be modified by cortical and cerebellar control.


In addition, sympathetic fibers appear to innervate the bladder, particularly in the neck and trigone area (area defined by the entry points of the ureters and the exit point of the urethra).


THE DETRUSOR REFLEX

A parasympathetic reflex which controls the contraction of the smooth muscle of the urinary bladder. The sensory fibres extend from stretch receptors in the detrusor muscle (smooth muscle of the bladder) into the sacral spinal cord via the pelvic nerve. The fibres ascend without synapsing in white matter tracts to the pons where they synapse on interneurons.

"Integration" occurs at this point, meaning that action potentials from numerous bladder stretch receptors, from the cerebral cortex and the from the cerebellum combine to generate a motor discharge under the appropriate circumstances (eg. the bladder is full, the animal is in the correct location etc.).

The motor discharge descends in white matter tracts (as a parasympathetic UMN) and synapses on a parasympathetic pre-ganglionic neuron in the grey matter of the sacral spinal cord. This neuron leaves the spinal cord through one of the sacral spinal nerves then enters the pelvic nerve. It synapses with the post-ganglionic neuron within the pelvic ganglia (on the surface of the bladder) and ultimately travels to the detrusor muscle, where an action potential leads to smooth muscle contraction.

Note that the motor discharge from the pons is sustained for long enough to allow complete bladder evacuation.



Diagram of the pathways for the detrusor reflex
http://164-26.ovcnet.uoguelph.ca/LaMarre/Detrusor.GIF


Legend: Affarent fibre (red) ascends to pons, synapses on interneuron, which then synapses on a motor fibre (blue). Efferent fibre descends, synapses on a preganglionic fibre (light blue) which synapses on a postganglionic fibre (green) innervating the bladder.

Note: Some affarent fibres continue to the sensory cortex where they synapse on interneurons which ultimately synapse on efferent fibres which modulate the detrusor reflex or the sphincter reflex.



CONTROL OF THE URETHRAL SPHINCTER

The muscle of the urethral sphincter is striated (skeletal) muscle and is therefore controlled by a somatic reflex arc, much the same as the patellar reflex. Stretch receptors within the urethralis muscle send action potentials into the sacral spinal cord via neurons which travel in the pudendal nerve. These neurons synapse directly onto lower motor neurons which innervate the muscle, usually causing contraction which tightens the sphincter.

Inhibitory neurons which relax and override the contraction of the sphincter descend from the cortex or enter the sacral spinal cord in the pelvic nerve from the detrusor.



Diagram of Pathways for the Sphincter Reflex

http://164-26.ovcnet.uoguelph.ca/LaMarre/Sphincter.GIF



SYMPATHETIC INNERVATION OF BLADDER

Minor component of bladder control
Innervation by several different subtypes of adrenergic fibres (alpha, beta).
Probable roles in modifying the parasympathetic response in times of stress or sympathetic activity.


INTEGRATION OF REFLEXES

For successful urination/micturition to occur, the various reflexes which normally control bladder activity must be coordinated to produce a sustained contraction of the bladder while the sphincter is relaxed.

Glad I could inspire some physiology research.:D

And I've voted, and my answer is "other." Basically peer pressure. If someone's waiting for me, or in the bathroom that I know, or if I'm gonna eat or prepare something that requires handling, I'll do it. But not if I'm doing a hit and run, and my wang is otherwise clean.

Justin

i wash my hands compulsively.however if i am somewhere and there is no warm water and the weather is cold i wont wash my hands after i pee.but i do have antibacterial stuff:)

I'm obscessive. I avoid door handles, I wash hands religiously, I brush my teeth till my gums bleed, etc. I know, it's bad for me.

Every time. Don't really know why, but I do wash my hands every time.

Nope. Not when I'm just taking a leak.
Wang is tucked away from outside contaminates, so by holding it to take a leak, i don't see how that warrants me having to wash my hands. My hands get more germs on them when touching a doornob or just about anything. My wang is about the cleanest thing I can touch. As long as I'm not tinkling on my hand, whats the point.

Originally posted by CatDancer
Haha - after I wash my hands, I use the paper towel to shut off the water & open the door in a public restroom.
I do that too.

The only time I don't wash is when I'm in a public restroom that isn't the cleanest and doesn't have paper towels.

Originally posted by tam
did you know that toilets (even public ones) are usually more hygenic than public phones or doorknobs etc?

scary....

not to mention ATM machines. I saw a report on tv that said the majority of ATM's they tested had fecal matter on them!!!


Originally posted by Midnight
I figure, if I dont piss all over my hands, and I have taken a shower within the last 15 hours, it wont do me much harm to skip a thorough washing. Unless I'm gonna be making food, or shakin hands with people or something like that. A lot of times ill just splash my hands with water at most :shrug:

ditto

Originally posted by Unrepresented


I like to think that my penis is the cleanest part of my body. I'm not worried about it getting my hands dirty.

Oh yes, and as the official DA urine guru, I'd just like to remind all that urine is sterile in properly functioning systems. You're more likely to dislodge some nasties from your hands with a good stream of urine than to do nothing.:)

Justin


I thought you were the SN urine guru :D you need to repost that full thread here!

Originally posted by Kraw
I thought you were the SN urine guru :D you need to repost that full thread here!

I think that thread's long gone.:(

The custom title isn't though:D

Well, now we know who not to shake hands with :D

I too use paper towels to turn off the water in a public place, and to open the door when I leave. I don't like blow hand dryers, and if a public place has them and no paper towels, I prefer not to wash my hands. Luckily, I don't find places like that often. I like to have clean hands, but I know that touching the grocery cart exposes me to many, many germs. As soon as I come home from anywhere, I wash my hands.