So, what's the final word on how possible it is to catch a disease from a toilet seat? I'm in college and live in the dorms, so essentially every bathroom I use is a public one. My school has no sanitary seat covers and uses only commercial-grade one-ply toilet paper. I refuse to believe disgusting microorganisms can't penetrate that flimsy stuff. How likely is it to catch a disease (STD or oth...

Both authors thank Bill Warburton of the BC Ministry of Social Development and Economic Security for helpful discussions on the issues covered in this paper. Smith thanks the members of the HRDC Medium Term Indicators Advisory Panel, in particular Walter Nicholson, for useful discussions as well.

The excellent initiative of the Community Practitioners' and Health Visitors' Association - that school nurses investigate poor toilet facilities - is to be applauded (news November 27).

Current research literature on toilet training for children with autism or developmental delays focuses on smaller case studies, typically with concentrated clinical support. Limited research exists to support an effective school-based program to teach toileting skills implemented by public school staff. We describe an intervention program to toilet train 5 children with autism or developmental...

The voided volume of urine or the uroflowmetry of the patients are routinely examined in urology department of healthcare facilities in order to diagnose urinary system diseases or manage systemic metabolism. Conventional uroscopy has several problems. Patients often suffer mental anguish with a sense of shame on ground that they discharge their urine and leave it in the public eye at inspectio...

Although toilet reading (TR) is a common habit, the effect of TR on bowel movements is neglected in the medical literature. Our hypothesis was that TR provides a distraction and acts as an unconscious relaxation technique and allows an easier defecation process. The aim of this study was to assess how common is TR and to map the reading/playing toilet habits in the Israeli adult population. In ...

This paper describes the practical case study on finding the innovative conceptual idea of super water-saving toilet system using TRIZ. The physical contradiction in TRIZ with Quality Function Deployment (QFD), is defined for the fixed ceramic S type trap on saving water with preventing the bad smell from septic tank. The concept of flexible tube for saving water in toilet is obtained by using ...

Citation: Nguyen MT, Allemann L, Ziemba C, Larivé O, Morgenroth E and Julian TR (2017) Controlling Bacterial Pathogens in Water for Reuse: Treatment Technologies for Water Recirculation in the Blue Diversion Autarky Toilet. Front. Environ. Sci. 5:90. doi: 10.3389/fenvs.2017.00090 Controlling Bacterial Pathogens in Water for Reuse: Treatment Technologies for Water Recirculation in the Blue Diver...

Redefining shared sanitation Thilde Rheinländer, Flemming Konradsen, Bernard Keraita, Patrick Apoya & Margaret Gyapong a Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, Øster Farigmagsgade 5, 1014 Copenhagen, Denmark. b Africa Sanitation Think Tank, 03 BP 7112, Ouagadougou 03, Burkina Faso. c Dodowa Health Research Center and School of Public Health, University of Ghana, Accra, Ghana. Co...

Although bidet toilets are widely used in Japan, the relationship between habitual bidet toilet use and the incidence of hemorrhoids or urogenital infections has not been prospectively studied. We performed a web survey and followed bidet toilets users and non-users to assess the incidence of hemorrhoids or urogenital infections from 2013 to 2014. Study subjects were randomly selected from a re...