Bathroom Hygiene Myth | MythBusters 

let me tell you my tricks people: 1.- Wash hands 2.- Dry hands with paper. 3.- Use the same paper to close the water and open the door. 4.- Hold the door with your foot and throw the paper in the trash (usually the trash is near the exit) Done, your hands are clean!

The worst is having to open a door which people who have not washed their hands have touched.

Whats the point of pretending to wash your hands? The fuacet is on, you might as well wash your hands. LAVESE LOS MANOS

I always wash my hands with soap. When i see ppl dont wash their hands with soap im disgusted.

Who's watching during quarantine 2020

People are so freaking gross. How hard is it to wash your damn hands? It takes 20 seconds to wash your hands with soap and water. 20 seconds! People don't have that kind of time!? Yuck. This is exactly why I hate public bathrooms. If I absolutely have to go though, I am like Sheldon Cooper using paper towels to shut the water off and open the door after I'm done. And I get so mad when certain restrooms don't have any paper towels and only a hand dryer. Like wtf!? How cheap is that to not provide paper towels, especially those fast food joints that make billions a year. They can afford cheap paper towels.

What about the handle to switch on the tap, and off, mh? Every dirty right hand that needs washing touches it and every washed right hand touches it again.

I can tell you as a maid and an ex fast food worker the filthiest part of any store is always the sink, faucet, and by far the hand dryers. They were far filthier than the toilets ever were (save those few rare occurrences when someone shits/vomits/pisses everywhere), and often when I would wipe them with my white towel it would come back green, yellow, brown, and black every. single. time.

What about the third option: turning on the taps with dirty, poopy hands, washing hands so they're clean, then turning off the taps they just touched with their dirty, poopy hands, thus making their clean hands dirty again? I hate this.

that didn't answer​the question

who the f washes his/her hand without soap. What is the point of that?

In order to "wash" the bacteria off your hands it requires rigorous scrubbing for 30 seconds minimum. Then the hot air dryer spews bacteria back onto your hands and you then touch objects while exiting the bathroom to even further the bacteria counts.

I thought the myth was that the air hand dryer uses recirculated bathroom air to dry your hands. And because it uses recirculated bathroom air, any pollutants in the air would be transferred to your wet hands.

Once I saw a man not wash his hands after using the rest room. After I washed and dried mine, I saw him outside and he shook another person's hand. I leaned in and said, "he didn't wash his hands and I'm not sure if he did a no.1 or no.2. He was in there a while". Oh you could cut the awkward tension with a knife.

I go even further, wash my hands and then use alcohol. It's great because just like TP you never know when the bathroom you're in doesn't have soap.

There’s one thing I think they missed discussing. In regular public restrooms, you also have the “toilet spray” which is all over in the bathroom spraying germs everywhere. The air intake on the dryer pulls in the germs floating around the restroom and blows them all over your otherwise clean hands.

"Why is yours bigger then mine" i always ask the same thing

It surprises me that using only water works so well

Downvote for incomplete video.

well at lest I know only using water does help.

My family calls me a germophobe cause i dont wanna use their phones. They use those things on the toilet and everywhere, and am i rlly a germophobe?

13 people thumb down this episod with dirty hands

+ashley johnson I'm on your side. And I am not a germophobe in any way. One thing I would love to see though. all bathrooms that have handicapped stall should also have have an automated entry exit door (I don't mean to the stall). 1st, I can't imagine how hard it is to get through the door stuggling in a wheelchair with the strong hinges they put on some of those doors. and second it would be good for those of us who would rather not have to touch the door--just bump the switch with your elbow.

What is so hard about washing your hands or even washing dishes?! I swear humanity has been declining so horribly since it began

Why didn't they do any experiments with the dryer blowing germs around?

"How come your bacteria are bigger than mine?" "Sometimes that's just the way it works."

You know what grinds my gears? Going to a fast food place, properly washing my hands in the restroom, then having to pull the nasty ass restroom door handle to open the door. What's the point then?

I'm a severe germaphobe, when i have to use a public bathroom i make sure to carry several papertowels. 1 for shutting off the water after washing my hands and the other for opening the door to get out. And i still use some hand sanatizer shortly after. I never used to be that way, it may be overkill but i can sleep better at night and i love getting sleep.

0:06 Over 12M hand driers in the US alone... shows Australian outlet underneath hand drier

I babysat when I was younger and now currently work in food production so I've had to reinforce hand washing a lot. If I see an adult in a public restroom skip washing their hands I call them out. 9/10 they go back and wash with soap and water.

The trouble is that you can get your hands nice and clean in a rest room, but have to be careful on how you exit the door as not knowing what parts have been touched by unwashed hands, or just try and open the door with your foot.

Ok. Guys that did it for me. From now on im freakin washing my hands with soap..

The following is a rough transcript of the video. *Narrator* : There are over 12 million hand dryers in the U.S. alone. So, can they really be a hygiene horror show? Well, the theory to this myth is two-fold. First, dryers supposedly purge fewer pathogens than their paper counterparts. And second, they can also fan a fog of micro-miasma that's a contamination catastrophe. But, will this myth be hot air? 00:34 *Jamie* : This story doesn't make any sense to me. *Adam* : How so? *Jamie* : Well, if you are drying your hands, that implies that you've washed them. *Adam* : Absolutely *Jamie* : And if you've washed your hands, you've removed all the bacteria. So, whether a drying method is cleaner than another is irrelevant. *Adam* : Right, I see your point, but only some people use the full soap and water for washing their hands. Some people, they just get their hands wet before drying them off. Why don't we test both of those and see which is the proper worst case scenario for testing hand towel versus dryer? *Jamie* : Okay. That works. 1:04 *Adam* : So, how do people wash their hands? Well, to my way of thinking, there are three things people do in a restroom regarding washing their hands. The first is...[Adam opens the faucet then swings his hands around the top of the sink]...they pretend to wash their hands. The second thing people do is get their hands wet... [Adam rubs his hands together under a stream of water]...but use no soap. [Adam is pushing the handle for the soap and catching the falling liquid soap into his hand] The third thing people do, and I think we all know you should do, is wash their hands with soap. 1:30 *Adam* : So, first things first, Jamie and I are going to wash our hands using each of those techniques and compare the bacterial growths to see if Jamie is, in fact, right. Does washing your hands in soap and water leave them completely clean? *Narrator* : And first to go is Adam, who after each cleaning custom, hands over to the Hyneman. *Jamie* : I'm swabbing Adam's hands with a soy based growth medium, so if there's any bacteria on his hands, I'm gonna find it. *Narrator* : Once Jamie is also swabbed, for science, it's time for some germ germination. 2:03 *Jamie* : Okay, Adam first... The process is pretty simple. We've collected our samples; we spread them evenly across soy agar in a petri dish, and we put them in an incubator. We're going to let them sit there overnight; we'll come in the morning and see what we've got. 2:23 *Narrator* : And, sure enough, 24 hours later. *Jamie* : Let's see what kind of surprise we have. *Adam* : [Laughs] Alright, well, the soap wash. *Jamie* : Notta [from "not a thing"] *Adam* : Freaking nothing. *Narrator* : Yep, the soap plate's correct, which cannot be said of the water wash. *Adam* : How come your bacteria are bigger than mine? *Jamie* : Sometimes, that's just the way it works. *Narrator* : And as for the no wash. *Adam* : Whoa! Gross!

Oh my gosh!!!!! That was so disgusting!!!!! I really hope you people think twice before leaving the bathroom without washing your hands cuz you're contaminating everything you touch and especially people who work with or around food. I mean you should always wash your hands and I can't believe that some people actually have to be told but I hope seeing this will make them change their minds and wash their freaking hands. If not for yourself, at least do it for everyone around you cuz you have no idea how much bacteria and germs you're spreading and it's absolutely disgusting.

As a hand washer myself I *really* wanted this test to be conclusive evidence to those who *don't wash* to need to start washing. Unfortunately there's a flaw in the testing method. To have conclusive evidence that not washing after using is bad they should have had to wash their hands first then use the bathroom then get swabbed. Bacteria and whatever from everyday use may have collected on their hands even before they used the bathroom for the no-wash test.

See kids that's why we wash our hands

I would never touch the soap dispenser or faucet with my bare hands ! That is just gross. I use a paper towel or my shirt. Touchless faucets and soap dispensers are the best

I saw a show a few years ago that tested 300 hundred girls/women from England and they said that their test showed that 2 out of 3 of them had urine and fecal matter on their hands. So they jokingly said don't get a hand job from an English girl and that's disgusting. But I can't believe how many of them didn't wash their hands. A lot of the guys said they only wash their hands if they shit but apparently the females there don't wash their hands at all. I see washing my hands as just a normal part of using the bathroom, I don't know how people skip that step. I would feel so dirty if I didn't wash my hands. But again, if you're not going to do it for yourself, to keep yourself clean, then at least do it for everyone around you cuz all the germs and bacteria that you're spreading is absolutely disgusting and can very easily get other people sick.

I don't care about my clean hands spreading the bad stuff. What I think about is the jet propelled bacteria all over the floor tracked away from the urinals and stalls blown around to be inhaled.

1:04 Dafuq is that on the top left

honestly just using water was better than I expected. I would have assumed the damp hands would have lead to more bacterial growth than dry hands, since no soap was involved.

Washing your hands with your own pee and using shit as soap will give you very dirty hands

People who don’t wash hands with soap deserves to be shamed.

Touching the faucet handle makes your hand dirty again. Touching the door knob makes your hand dirty again. Drying your hands under an air blower makes your hands dirty again because it's getting its air supply from the restroom. That's why paper towels are better. You can use them to turn off the water and open the door.

I only wash my hands when MythBusters confirm it is a good thing.

Why can't I view any Mythbusters videos on my iPod Touch? Now I'll never learn about which bathroom surfaces I can protect myself from!

If only they had soap in the first place.

Or people like me who use 10 times more soap than water and leave the next person wondering where all the water went Hello? Anybody?

Wouldn’t it be better to not touch anything or wash your hands before using the bathroom. I know I showered in the morning and where I’ve been but what about everything I touched with my hands before touching the toilet paper?

It's gross but a little bacteria is good to help use be immune to illnesses.

YOOOP

Dat picture on the wall... lol

I lick my hands instead of washing them after I go poopoo

Yeh but did you pee first to check and see if man sausage bacteria was present, or just some other bacteria?

I'm assuming that they treated their hands with a harmless bacteria culture before each washing.

CLOSE LID THX.

I am going to wash my hands right now, be right back, wash my key bord first.

I would have also tested just using hand sanitizer without washing, and using an alcoholic wipe as I usually do if I need to wash my hands before working on electrical devices.

My questions: 1) did Mythbusters use Basic soap Antibacterial Soap Antimicrobial Soap 2) They tested for bacteria, however would the same hold true for viruses and fungi?

Why is no one notice that we open the taps with our dirty hands, clean it, then close the dirty taps with out clean hands

Er... they left out the whole hand-dryer bit. I know people who don't wash at all or just rinse have dirty mitts.

In today's day and age there is absolutely no excuse not to wash your hands in the bathroom. I've actually called people out for not washing their hands, and they just stare at me with a dumbfounded expression.

I use to believe myth busters when I was young but as I got older I noticed their experiments are not controlled at all do to so many variables

They should test, going into the bathroom to pee and leave, without touching ANYTHING.

People are too lazy to be clean

I don't wash my hands with soup. I find that soap works better.

0:33

And the fourth thing people do is walk right out the toilets without even attempt to fake it. 🤦‍♂️

So all of the next new comments here have experienced the pandemic. All humans now must perform the ritual of washing their hands with soap for more than 30 seconds, and after that use extra paper towels to turn off the faucet and to open the door.

I hate when people just put their hands in the water for 1 second and then just sprint out if out drying, horrible humans! Dx

I love the American gothic painting in the back.

who else went to go wash their hands...

Who goes to the restroom just to pretend to wash their hands? like wtf? they just wasting their time!

Curious that they didn't attended to the fact that the wind of the hand dryer will spread the air full of shit throughout the bathroom

Did they do each consecutively after the other? You washed your hands first and then washed them again with soap and water. They were washed twice when you did the soap swab.

0:35 *First time I heard about this myth, and I always use the restroom’s hand dryer*

i hope i never meet you in person or get a chance to shake hands with you..

Not going to lie sometimes I just water wash. 😷 Not happening anymore. 🤢

Why the fuck is Adam playing devil's advocate here for fuck's sake. Whoever is disgusting enough to not wash their hands won't bother drying them, they would just wipe their hands down the thigh of their pant legs.

people who don't wash their hands are nasty

Even if you use soap, if you put your hands under water before you completely lather, you are wasting soap and your time. Need to lather for 20 seconds before rinsing your hands! 🤗

This is not realy true. There normaly is no diffrence between water and no wash, a slight decrease with soap and a big decrease when washing your hands with a chlorine solution. But in eatch sampel bacteria colony's where precent (only difrence was in spieces). I know this because I caried this experiment out in my college lab and still have the notes.

So what about air dry vs paper towel? That's what was supposed to be the subject of the investigation.

If you're drying your hands, you didn't _fake_ washing your hands.

Simple solution: Don’t wash your hands.

Why the fuck is he using soap BEFORE wetting them

i mean the fuckin tap thats got piss on it (i know have seen my own piss splash on them from a urinal) is dirtier than just skipping the whole thing i could piss on my hands and they would still be cleaner than touching the damn sink and blow dryer button and if your really worried about just piss out side

*pretends to wash hands while walking out the door, not stopping at the sink*

I've always hated those automatic hand dryers. I don't care *WHAT* anyone else says, I refuse to use them. I'd rather wipe my hands on my pants if I have to.

I gotta stop watching the clips on this channel. The picture is almost always click bait and they want you to go watch the whole episode before you get to see results based on the clickbait picture.

Only a hand dryer with a fresh air intake from outside the bathroom would be even remotely as good as a clean papertowel, but with no papertowel, you have to use your shirt to open inward swinging doors. Internal intakes just recirculate bathroom poop air onto your hands. Bathrooms with papertowels and push to exit doors (or no doors with the maze entery) are the BEST!

now what’s more disgusting is if you go to the toilet before washing ur hands

so many people are filthy when it comes to hygiene many times I have been in the restroom and see people use the toilet and walk right out the door without cleaning their hand I have started putting a paper towel in my hand when I grab the door most if the time I keep some with me Mr cleanliness is next to Godliness

Here before tik tok viral video. OG’s been knew this thanks to MB

And to think people get mad at me for telling them off for not washing their hands. Nasty little pooh hands

Show her show her stove with water than supplied water

i wonder how clean there hands are before they enter the rest room.suprising they didnt do a contol

But... but they didn't test the drying methods...

Who better than Jamie Hygieneman to tackle this?

I ama plumber so i don`t chew yy finger nails.