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After going to the toilet you turn the tap on and wash your hands. ...?

but what's the point when you just have to touch the tap you've put germs on again to turn it off?

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  • 1 decade ago
    Favorite Answer

    1. Use bathroom

    2. Turn on faucet

    3. Wash hands

    4. Get paper towel

    5. Dry hands and turn off faucet with paper towel. (thankfully now they have faucets that are automatic.)

    6. Use same towel to open door for exit. Use foot to hold door while I toss the towel in the trash.

    Works for me every time. Just have to remember to be careful handling the towel. I've often thought about this very question...

  • Duke
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    That's the excuse I hear from people who don't want to bother washing their hands where I work.

    If you are worried about it, use hand sanitizer after touching the taps.

    Either that or install the kind of taps that work on sensors. Those turn on when you put your hands near them and shut off when you take your hands away. A lot of mall restrooms have these.

  • 1 decade ago

    Yes but I hold on to the tissue and I turn the tap off and open the door with the paper towels so I don't get my hands dirty again

  • deb
    Lv 7
    1 decade ago

    If not at home I use a paper towel to turn the tap on and off and also to open the door.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Your wrong there. The soap's antiseptic is still in your pores of

    your skin. Not saying it is full proof. But it handles the germs you speak of. Wash your hands at least 45 seconds.

    Source(s): mind of mind
  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Your hands are still wet when you turn the water off, so in the back of your mind, they're still shielded from the germs.

  • 1 decade ago

    I usually wash my hands before going #1. I know where it's been and it's clean, my hands have been touching everything. I wasn't taught to wash after #1 I was taught not to pee on my hands. After #2, yes, every time.

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    Yes I do wash myhands,and turn the tap off with a paper towel or my elbow if none is available..=)

  • ?
    Lv 4
    5 years ago

    wellness care centers practice their workers to on no account touch those knobs--when you have washed your palms, you're to apply a paper towel to instruct off those knobs. in case you need to pump some style of a lever to dispense the towel, i exploit my elbow. you apart from might do no longer pick to touch the door cope with/panel as you go out to shield your self the germs of human beings who did no longer hardship.

  • 1 decade ago

    the point is wash your hands after coming out of the toilet coz u know where its been

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