I have two young adult children and they have some freinds that have told of their various infections or diseases and lack of treatment, these young people are at my house often and I would like to know what kind of risk this presents to myself and other uninfected individuals in my household.
2007-01-26 09:07:43 · 18 answers · asked by barbara b 5 in Health ➔ Diseases & Conditions ➔ Infectious Diseases
You can get crabs but they don't live long on a toilet seat so you kinda have to plop down right after an infected person. You can also get genital herpes from a toilet seat if there is someone around with a flair up.
2007-01-26 11:33:22 · answer #1 · answered by Loli M 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
OK, here's the deal:
You can get cooties, and that's about it. Sexually transmitted diseases are spread via sexual intercourse with an infected person. Most of them are spread more easily from male to female. The diseases vary in how infectious they are, but none of them are spread on toilet seats (well, assuming you're using the toilet seat for what it was intended). Most bugs don't tend to live on cool, hard surfaces.
I could add that a couple of diseases - syphilis and herpes - can be spread by direct non-sexual contact with infectious lesions, so make sure there is not an infected person already on the toilet when you sit down. One should consider HOW people sit on toilet seats. Genital and anal infections most likely would not come in contact with the seat in normal use. Intact skin is a good barrier against most disease organisms ... unless of course one were to pick up a bacterium or virus on the seat, then immediately plant their buttocks on someone's nose and mouth. If this were to happen to me, disease transmission would be the least of my concerns.
As far as other kinds of diseases that have different routes of transmission, such as oral/fecal or airborne, the hands are more to blame for spreading these diseases than the bottom is. Shake hands with a carrier, touch your eyes or mouth, and voila! You've caught that person's cold or influenza. Eat food prepared by a person with hepatitis A (who didn't wash their hands after using the toilet), and hey, you've got hepatitis! I guess theoretically if you sat on feces on the seat, got some on your hands when you wiped yourself, then licked your fingers (mmm, mmm!) you could possibly get hepatitis A, but it isn't a primary route of transmission. Urine doesn't carry any common diseases that I know of, but I sure hate it when people leave the seat wet.
2007-01-26 09:16:24 · answer #2 · answered by josie 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
None. And if you are really a germaphobe then just keep some of those antimicrobial wipes on the toilet and wipe the seat before you sit. A little extreme for a private home, but I do it all the time at work where people are pigs.
2007-01-26 09:18:32 · answer #3 · answered by Hank Hill 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have young boys at home and I have to clean the toilet seats 5 times a day. Can you imagine how dirty toilet seats in public areas are. They say you can't catch anything from toilet seats, but really, why would you want to sit on other people's urine, or where their pimply butts have been. ewwwwwyuk. Tell them to squat or at least line the seats with toilet paper.
2007-01-26 09:18:35 · answer #4 · answered by Pandora 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
From what I know it's pretty hard to catch a disease of a toilet seat. You obviously need to flush the toilet and wipe the seat before sit done and go yourself.
I have never heard of being contaged in this manner, but people are so afraid of it.
2007-01-26 09:17:09 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything that can be transmitted by touch or the exchange of bodily fluids.
But, unless said friends are walking around in your house with horrible life-threatening illnesses, I wouldn't worry about it.
Being exposed to germs is one of the ways that kids' immune systems build up themselves up.
If your child grows up in a sterile bubble, then goes out into the world, exposing him or herself to the various pathogens that exist in the day to day lives of human beings, he or she is at risk from all of those diseases that his or her body has never seen before.
The human body is an amazing thing, and has wonderful defenses against everyday germs.
2007-01-26 09:22:00 · answer #6 · answered by bgii_2000 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
not likely at all ( tested over and over ) the butt is not exactly the spot that germs and parasites enter the body so if you keep your hands off you should be fine ( assuming you forget to wash your hands touching could be a problem but no more than touching the person or any other surface)
THE DANGER and the source of disease transmission is the DOORKNOB since you touch it after hand washing ( and maybe the people before did not wash )
2007-01-26 09:15:15 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Alot Of Them. Thats Why Its Good To Wipe It Before Useing It.
2007-01-26 09:17:30 · answer #8 · answered by mks 7-15-02 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
None. I would be more concerned about the doorknob on the bathroom door than the toilet seat.
2007-01-26 09:17:31 · answer #9 · answered by Lyn 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
If he left poo in it i doubt you could seize a STI by way of that. that is extra probable if he executed a surpassed company and left his residue on the seat after which you sat on it incredibly.
2016-11-01 09:04:08 · answer #10 · answered by alyson 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋