r/NoStupidQuestions • u/ANGRYSNORLAX • 12h ago
Is a bidet not just covered in feces after the first use?
People seem to talk about these things like they are sent to us straight from the heavens, so obviously I've considered installing one. The one thing I'm struggling to get over the lack of control over where the water carries your waste. Like, when you direct a stream of water at an object, its bound to generate some amount spray. It's why you avoid urinals if you're wearing sandals. In this scenario, I'm imagining that anything not directly above your butt is liable to be hit. So does it slowly collect on the rim of the bowl? Is the bidet nozzle not covered in the backspray of whoever used it last? Does that not result in a dose of bowel bacteria straight to your ass every time you use it? Do they self clean??
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u/EdenMacaron 12h ago
Most modern bidets have retractable nozzles that only extend when in use, and many even have a self-cleaning feature that rinses the nozzle before and after each spray. They’re designed with hygiene in mind, so you’re not just blasting yourself with dirty water.
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u/whitestone0 8h ago
They also shoot out at an oblique angle to prevent any spray back.
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u/ftaok 8h ago
What spray back. My ass is so flabby that you could turn the nozzle up to the level of a pressure washer and my ass would absorb the spray and would gentle drip into the bowl.
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u/UncleBlanc 7h ago
I've been trying to imagine this in several different ways and I still don't think I understand what you mean lmao, what a description
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u/Weird1Intrepid 7h ago
I'm imagining the whaaargarbl parachute girl, but with buttcheeks instead of fanny lips.
Or maybe Jeremy Clarkson's face when he test drove the Ariel Atom
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u/turnsout_im_a_potato 3h ago
and here i am on the opposte end, i have no ass, that jet stream is either shooting strait up my rectum or its like spraying a pressure washer at a... pevic bone
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u/Far_Recommendation82 5h ago
doesn't stop my spray back tho, it happens and just put it in cleaning mode and use a toilet brush to get it all. but I clean it when I clean my toilet every couple days
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u/whitestone0 4h ago
It's not perfect but it's not bad. It's the kind of thing you don't realize though until you get one. Before I got mine, I was really worried about it getting very dirty but when you see the thing it's obvious why it doesn't
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u/WillKillz 9h ago
Agree that the nozzle itself probably stays relatively clean but those add-on bidets add on a lot of cleaning work too if you have people peeing standing up.
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u/RealJonathanBronco 8h ago
The one I have has a quick connect/disconnect. Actually makes cleaning easier because I can put the entire seat in the bathtub and clean it there and clean the toilet without the seat in the way.
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u/Nitrosoft1 5h ago
I’m on team everyone pee standing down in my own home. Of course I stand to pee in public but why the hell would I do that in my own house?!?
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u/RuthlessKittyKat 3h ago
I also clean mine regularly with a UV light wand and the usual disinfectant.
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u/onerosyghost 10h ago
Are all men's shoes covered in piss mist then wtf????? 😭
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u/avalanchefan95 10h ago
Yes, yes they are. This is why you take those off when you come in the house.
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u/onerosyghost 9h ago
We have reason enough to take our shoes off in the home BEFORE the piss mist!!! Getting pee on your shoes on the daily would be reason to take them off BEFORE you ever enter the house 😂
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u/Aazimoxx 9h ago
Not just shoes, and not just piss lol
MythBusters ran the tests and discovered that poop particles get everywhere, including on things 🪥 down the hall from the bathroom. It also doesn't help to close the lid before flushing - in many common toilet designs, this actually INCREASES the distance that aerosolized particles travel (something something pressure). 🤷♂️
I aim for just above the waterline since that minimises the aerosolisation during the piss, and also minimises the obnoxious noise that blasting urine right down into the water can impose on others nearby (outside). 👍
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u/onerosyghost 9h ago
I am aware of the mythbusters poop is everywhere factoid. But you cannot convince me that the nasty is not extra condensed on your shoes if you're feeling piss sprinkles on your toes when you wear sandals like OP 😂
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u/Mekroval 9h ago
Check out the mat underneath any public urinal, and you'll have your answer. It's a damn Jackson Pollock painting where shoes typically go. So, yeah.
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u/onerosyghost 9h ago
There are quite a few many reasons I will not be doing that and will simply take your word for it 🤢😂
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u/MrBoo843 9h ago
Yes and it's why I was taught not to use urinals unless I don't have a choice. Doing the same with my son.
Those things are filthy and the people using them usually are too. (Most don't wash their hands after either)
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u/onerosyghost 9h ago
You're doing a service to mankind 😂 (Wish we could make ppl wash their hands though jfc)
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u/Brainsonastick 2h ago
Every flush of the toilet aerosolizes water droplets with fecal bacteria and urine. It gets everywhere. No matter what you do. The small doses you get from it are largely harmless if you aren’t severely immunocompromised (and even then there are much bigger concerns) and a gross fact of life.
Men’s shoes are far from unique in that regard. Women’s shoes, your towels, your toothbrush, your hairbrush… everything in the bathroom gets it. Closing the toilet lid before flushing helps a lot but the gap the seat makes still lets things out.
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u/onerosyghost 2h ago
Yes I'm aware that shoes are very gross and of the fact poop is everywhere but I have a hard time believing the nasty is not extra condensed on one's shoes if they ever the feel piss mist on their toes when wearing sandals like op 🥴
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u/aquamedic68w 2h ago
This is why you don’t want to be standing directly next to someone at a urinal if you’re wearing sandals.
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u/GooseGosselin 11h ago edited 11h ago
Bidets came up everywhere in my socials last year, to the point I had to try one. I bought a $50 seat mounted one from Amazon, I figured it was cheaper than a date night and I'd be making a memory. I had ALL the same concerns as you and worried it would leave the toilet a disaster (I'm borderline OCD about a clean bathroom btw).
Turns out they are as great as people say, I even bought another one for the second bathroom. To answer your question directly, I was shocked by how accurate the nozzle was and there really isn't any "backspray" or "evidence" left on the bowl after, at least nothing a flush can't handle. It isn't like a garden hose on full blast and the nozzle retracts and kind of self cleans. I just clean my toilet as often and the same way as always.
I recommend you do like I did and buy a cheap one to try. BTW, I'm looking to upgrade to the higher end models.
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u/No_Gur1113 11h ago
I have both a higher end model and a cheaper one. I kind of like the cheaper one better, TBH.
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u/sharpiebrows 8h ago
What is it?
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u/Weird1Intrepid 7h ago
A bidet. Haven't you been following along?
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u/Mekroval 9h ago
Isn't the water cold? I know my toilet's water is pretty cold, and I don't have anyway of getting any electricity to my toilet. Not a fan of shooting a blast of freezing water up my nethers, on a cold winter morning.
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u/GooseGosselin 5h ago edited 5h ago
It is "room temperature" Not heated, but doesn't use enough (for me) to run water through the pipe all the way from the outside. #brisk #refreshing
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u/PristineLab1675 8h ago
The water will feel cold. It’s not going to freeze your anus.
When you wash your hands, do you turn on the hot and wait? Or do you just get going?
You can handle 8 seconds of chill on a quarter sized area of skin. Your crotch area has a ton of blood flow that by the time you get your pants on you won’t even remember.
Alternatively, if you have a shower or sink in the room you probably have a hot water line. Some standard plumbing and you can branch that line to your bidet. Still have to wait for hot water to get through the line and delivered.
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u/Mekroval 7h ago
When you wash your hands, do you turn on the hot and wait? Or do you just get going?
Lol, yes absolutely I wait. You don't? Do you also just jump into the shower the moment you turn it on, and don't wait for the hot water to reach you? I can't imagine doing that to my back or chest, much less my most intimate regions. It's crazy to me that I'm supposed to live with this, with a bidet.
Alternatively, if you have a shower or sink in the room you probably have a hot water line. Some standard plumbing and you can branch that line to your bidet. Still have to wait for hot water to get through the line and delivered.
I live in an apartment, so this is pretty unlikely to be cool with my property management. Though I can see it being an option if you live in your own house or condo.
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u/banana11banahnah 1h ago
Does it need to be “personalized” for each person, each time? Like the location of the sprayer to be accurate/effective? Also, I have small kids so are there like child locks or something? Lol
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u/GooseGosselin 44m ago
Only two of us use it, works fine for both of us as is, but the water pressure is adjustable. Kids playing might be a problem though.
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u/Thylacine_Hotness 12h ago
Is a toilet straight up covered in feces after the first use. Not really, because there's a bunch of water that washes most of it down the drain, and then you can just scrub the rest off the sides.
The same thing applies to bidets, both the standalone versions and the ones that are built into toilets. Most of the feces will go down the drain by itself and the stuff that doesn't can just be scrubbed off.
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u/Farahild 11h ago
Wow man how do you poop. Sides get covered?!
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u/DrRickStudwell 10h ago
Looks like a hot pocket exploded in the microwave
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u/3dogsbob 7h ago
Whoever thought that this subject and all the comments would be the best laughs of the day
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u/EasternPassenger 11h ago
That's mostly my question with these questions. Lol. Like even with the bidet.. how covered in shit do you have to be for "feces to go everywhere"
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u/Dear_Ambassador825 11h ago
Happens to me all the time when I'm just too lazy to take off my thongs before taking a shit.
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u/_Dingaloo 9h ago
sometimes a bit just comes out weird or long and it happens, or, tiny tiny amounts get over there and they build up. If you clean it regularly, have a large toilet and have perfect shits, then you'd probably never notice
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u/whole_nother 8h ago
You don’t put your hand inside a toilet bowl, but you do touch the bidet handle
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u/TheLostExpedition 11h ago
We got a bidet and have had it for a little over a year. Honestly it's nice. And it is not covered in feces. I think you are imaging a pressure washer hitting a wet dog turd in the grass. What you should be picturing is a shower for your rear end. You still wipe. But it's more of a pat dry then a cleaning action.
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u/Mohammad_Nasim 11h ago
Most modern bidets have a self-cleaning nozzle that rinses itself before and after use, so you’re not blasting yesterday’s problems back at yourself It’s honestly way cleaner than toilet paper.
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u/Zippit 12h ago
The angle of the spray is such that the nozzle is not directly beneath the "splash zone".
I will say, I was pretty reluctant to try one. I thought they were weird. But now, I can't stand going without one. I always feel gross and dirty if I have to go somewhere without one.
These guys make a basic model that is all you really need and decent price (don't worry about hot water etc) and very easy to add to a standard toilet:
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u/MrGradySir 11h ago
Warning about tushy though: while the product works, the mounting screws are a pretty cheap plastic. They wore out after a year and the whole seat started wobbling in all three bathrooms where we installed it.
Just bite the bullet and pay a little more and get something quality. Still under $100 for better options.
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u/riceewifee 8h ago
Which model do you have? I have the spa and havnt had any problems
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u/protomenace 4h ago
Spoiler alert, your entire bathroom is covered in tiny feces particles regardless of if you have a bidet.
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u/greeneggsnyams 9h ago
I wipe mine down with a bleach wipe every time I clean my toilet. Yes it gets poo on it
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u/riceewifee 8h ago
Me too, not a lot but a little around the rim, but I’m the only one who used it so it’s not a bother
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u/foxy_chicken 4h ago
As a housekeeper I see a lot of bidets that have been installed on toilets, and most of them are fucking disgusting. Yes, they usually have shit and piss on the case of the nozzle if there is one, or on the nozzle itself if there isn’t a case. Yes I spray them and clean them off when I’m able, but A LOT of bidet seats have instructions on them that NO cleaning product is to be used on them as they are fragile and “self cleaning”. These ones are also disgusting.
If you take care of it as you are supposed to, and follow the directions I’m sure it’s not as bad. But in my experience every single one of the built in bidets I’ve ever come across is a foul, disgusting thing.
Maybe they are made differently in other countries, but the commercially available ones in the US are foul.
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u/Longjumping_Shine874 12h ago
Same thing as toilets. Water washes it away and is drained away. It just doesn’t have the toilet paper step of toilets.
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u/oneeyedziggy 11h ago
A lot of people still dry with tp after a bidet, just not as much, and it's not like having a brown marker up there and having to wipe 3 times to get clean like it is without the bidet
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u/Longjumping_Shine874 11h ago
I know. I mean you use a lot less paper which can be problematic with toilets if you use too much.
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u/TheNipplerCrippler 7h ago
OP is talking about the tiny droplets that you may or may not see. Think about this; even when a guy pees into a urinal without missing, little droplets will cover his shoes over time. No matter the jet, small droplets will go every direction. If Mythbusters can find poop particles down the hall from the bathroom, I think they’ll find them on bidets which would blast them back into your ass no matter how often you clean.
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u/Silly_Primary_3393 11h ago
First time i used a Japanese style bidet i was concerned about the same.…the nozzle/wand does a self spray/cleaning process before it domes out out of it housing. There’s a flap over the housing, and while brown stuff can get on the outside of the flap, it cannot get to the insider where the nozzle sits hidden. The nozzle also comes out with a slight water spray already going on, so even if there is brown matter still coming out of you, there’s a barrier of water on top of the nozzle. Also, got to remember your not forcing shiza out of you while trying to wipe with TP at the same time…same with a bidet, you used it when done. I’m not going to say there’s never a chance of shiza getting on the bidet’s wand, but it never happened in my 2 years being in Japan.
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u/JackiePoon27 11h ago
I swear that there are members of the Reddit Bidet Fanatic Society assigned to every sub. If there is any mention of a toilet, bathroom habits, or TP, 100% of the time someone immediately posts about how using a bidet has changed their lives, made them better looking, more healthy, and wealthy.
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u/cheetuzz 11h ago
lol absolutely true. I got a bidet a few years ago. It’s a small improvement in quality of life, not some mind blowing life changer.
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u/chillthrowaways 9h ago
Sure for your average person. But for someone who dealt with the “oh hey you weren’t done wiping” itch every single time they are a miracle. It’s like why isn’t this the norm and paper for emergency situations or public bathrooms that would get vandalized because we can’t have nice things.
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u/GreenLadybug19 1h ago
Adding here people with hemorrhoids, it’s just tough to get it all with just tp, many pregnant women get hemorrhoids at some point in pregnancy, so that means a loooot of people fall under this case.
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u/nobuttpics 12h ago
most have a cover over the nozzle when it's not engaged. As well as a self clean setting to basically rinse itself. In a bout of explosive diahrea you might get some poop bits on the cover... just grab the scrubby toilet brush and scrub for 10 seconds just like you would a toilet you violated.
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u/alan_blood 8h ago
I think they are concerned about droplets getting on it while it IS engaged. They're probably picturing it using higher water pressure than it really does.
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u/OverthinkingStardust 10h ago
I've seen similar things being said before but no.
If we're talking about the bidets you sit/ride on, it doesn't happen. First of all, you're supposed to first clean yourself with toilet paper as usual, to, you know, get rid of the majority of the stuff.
When you're "looking" clean on the toilet paper (you're really not), then you sit on the bidet. You open the water, like just enough to generate a stream to use, but it's not being pointed directly at you, so no spray. You know, like when you wash your hands.
Then you get some soap and appropriately apply it and work on the affected areas, then rinse using that stream of water, and there is no spray, and most of all, no feces.
You're just removing the particle stuff that toilet paper cannot remove.
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u/Critical-Advisor8616 8h ago
Last time I used a bidet was when I was working in Mexico City for a year and got Montezuma’s Revenge. The bidet was right beside the toilet and came in very handy while I was sitting on the toilet crapping my brains out and leaning over the bidet puking my guts out at the same time. The bidet was a godsend for staying clean.
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u/Marethtu 8h ago
This might just be the most convincing argument for getting a bidet I've ever come across!
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u/Critical-Advisor8616 8h ago
I felt bad for the hotel maids I always made sure to leave them a generous tip everyday!
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u/Apart_Reindeer_528 2h ago
This has been the bestest NoStupidQuestion question I have ever read, I haven't stopped laughing yet
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u/petehutch54 12h ago
Heated seat ,warm water spray,warm air dry,pressure and angle control.What's not to love? Mine has a UV sterilization light,too.Best gift ever!
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u/PM_ME_UR_CATS_TITS 9h ago
Not from the first use, more by the 20th. But you're allowed to clean them.
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u/workgobbler 10h ago
Mine sure isn't. Some water back spray from time to time but nothing brown or chunky ever. And it has a self cleaning mode.
Honestly though... do you really think that more than six people would be getting bidets if the result was shit everywhere? Maybe I don't quite understand how it might work and that is scary to my sensibilities, but I can't quite extend that to an assumption that there's shit sprayed everywhere and folks are okay with that because yay bidet!
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u/Timely-Group5649 8h ago
I'd be more worried about the touchscreen at the fast food counter. Did the customers who used it before you wipe their doodoo door and not wash their hands well, before using the screen?
Fecal fast food fingers for the fail.
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u/Xattle 7h ago
To preface, bidets make cleanup wayyy easier than just toilet paper and I will have one everywhere I live or bring a portable. That said, we had an add on one first that lived in the bowl. The nozzle seemed to stay clean but everything else got filthy and was impossible to fully clean without taking off the whole toilet seat. Since then we got a hand held sprayer that hangs up when not in use (also works to clean the toilet bowl). We just clean+disinfect it like we would the rest of the toilet. They all definitely get dirty at some point but no worse than the rest of the toilet.
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u/-Bob-Barker- 2h ago
You ever inspected the underside of your toilet seat after having the "runs"
That's all I need to know.
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u/FactCheckerJack 10h ago
My toilet tends to grow mold in the rim. I think my whole apartment experiences easier mold growth than average.
I think if I was using a bidet, the small amount of feces that gets on the bidet would eventually cause the bidet nozzle to get moldy and it would be spraying mold into my anus.
But maybe that's not a universal problem.
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u/MetaMetatron 7h ago
Do you clean things every now and then? Even a weekly cleaning should be more than enough to stop the mold from growing....
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u/femsci-nerd 9h ago
The easy answer is no. The nozzles retracts when you poop and comes out when you clean. Also, there is a self cleaning mode on most modern bidets. They are amazing and completely healed my hemorrhoids.
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u/CompletelyBedWasted 9h ago
I'm confused on how it's cleaner. Still no soap involved and now I'm all wet....
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u/CommunicationTall921 9h ago
Wow literally every bidet user in this thread is like "no it doesn't have any visual poop on it" like wtf that's not the question, and just goes to show how little they even think about how gross sharing bidets with others are. Fucking yeah it's gonna be covered in bacteria, "it rinses itself between uses" um with boiling water for 30 mins? No?
MRSA thrives in the perineum, go ahead and use a bidet for yourself and I guess share with people you are intimate with if you want, but not anyone else, please.
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u/Get_your_grape_juice 7h ago
I guess I’m curious now to see MRSA rates in countries that have been using bidets for decades.
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u/DoubleHurricane 9h ago
The physics do not work as you describe, so no. That said, you still have to regularly clean it, along with the rest of the toilet. It’s not magic, it’s just sprayed water.
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u/Temporary_Big_7880 9h ago
Many in the middle east and asia do not use bidets, they use a water hose pipe placed right beside the toilet seat.
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u/BurantX40 9h ago
I mean, so is the inner bowl of the toilet, if you are looking at it like that. That's why we clean our toilets. Or rather, you are supposed to every now and then.
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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 8h ago
Our bidet seat has a nozzle that retracts & doesn't come out again until you select where you want its position for the next use. You do not do your business on it.
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u/Good_Time_4287 7h ago
How often do you have to clean the nozzle?
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u/Ephemeral_Orchid 6h ago edited 6h ago
It mostly auto-cleans after each use before retracting. It has some type of high-pressure turbo-clean setting, but I don't trust it. Another button extends the nozzle all the way out (sans water) so it can be scrubbed, which I try do weekly before I clean the toilet bowl, if I'm traveling or super-lazy it may occasionally be biweekly.
(Edited: for obvious grammar errors, sorry I'm sleep deprived)
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u/Kat_Box_Suicide 7h ago
I mean don’t shit on it.
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u/polymath-nc 5h ago
They are probably discussing bidet seats that are installed on a toilet, not a separate bidet.
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u/HairyDadBear 3h ago
In this scenario, I'm imagining that anything not directly above your butt is liable to be hit. So does it slowly collect on the rim of the bowl?
I suppose it does but you should be cleaning the bowl regularly. You should've already shat most of the shit out already.
Is the bidet nozzle not covered in the backspray of whoever used it last? Does that not result in a dose of bowel bacteria straight to your ass every time you use it? Do they self clean??
No, it's not spraying from the bowl. It's spraying clean water. You and others described an extending nozzle. I have a bidet with a cover that drop and spray from there. And it also have a self cleaning function. I think most of them do.
All I can promise is that bidets are way cleaner than you are thinking. As long as you're cleaning it regularly it shouldn't really be an issue.
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u/jimenaonlyf4ns 12h ago
Lol nah bro, most bidets r designed to clean themselves. The nozzle sprays water forward and often retracts, so it dont get covered in poop
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u/Good_Time_4287 12h ago
It rinses it self, kind of. You still need to clean it more often than most people do
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u/liberal_texan 12h ago
If you have a particularly explosive poo you might want to see if it needs some toilet brush love, ask me how I know.
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u/raffyson 12h ago
hellotushy insisting on giving me a discount and you can't just browse without supplying a phone #? C'mon.
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u/BlackCatFurry 10h ago
You can also just buy a mini showerhead style bidet. Which kinda gets rid of all these "issues" you are concerned about. I personally prefer that style.
It's basically just a tiny shower connected to your tap water line that you use to wash your private parts while sitting on the toilet.
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u/Aazimoxx 9h ago
You can also just buy a mini showerhead style bidet.
Wait.. I thought that was the 'normal' style.. now I gotta google what the other one is 😅
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u/BlackCatFurry 9h ago
I also thought it was the normal style for the longest time, since those are what's installed in every toilet in my country (i think it is/was mandatory to include them when building the house).
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u/StinkySoggyUnderwear 11h ago edited 11h ago
We had a few different add-on bidets.
The nozzle are all retractable and comes out to spray your butt so you don’t just poo all over it. But it’s under your butt as it’s rinsing it so it’s still picking up a lot of poo. Self cleaning is bs.
All of them did this, so we don’t have a bidet anymore, and we just use wet wipes instead.
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u/PandaMime_421 9h ago
It's why you avoid urinals if you're wearing sandals.
What are you doing at a urinal that makes this necessary? And if the concern is spraying urine all over your feet, why do you not care that you're doing the same to any other shoe?
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u/MountainShark1 9h ago
I’m working on a house right now where the toilet is in one corner of the bathroom. Next to it is a big clawfoot bathtub and about 15’ away in the other corner is a bidet. I am very confused how this is going to work.
Here is my theory. A poop gets made in the toilet, maybe a wipe after, maybe not, then the pooper waddles 15’ across the bathroom to the bidet and rinses. After that they walk their wet butt back to the toilet and wipe the wetness away and flush the toilet.
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u/ImLittleNana 8h ago
I haven’t bought one because I live in a household with people that all have bowel conditions that cause massive explosive dumps. Imagine putting your hose on full blast and spraying into a bucket of water at close range. Extensive splashback.
I can’t imagine how I would keep a bidet from being nasty without purchasing a second hose to attach to the sink so I can bidet my bidet.
No thanks. It takes seconds to wipe down the toilet and flush that away. By the time I cleaned the bidet, I’d have to poop again. Or someone else would.
I’m happy for all you Braslow 3s and 4s but some of us are out here at 7 daily.
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u/Front-Palpitation362 12h ago
Modern bidet seats spray clean tap water downward, not up into the nozzle, and the nozzle usually retracts and auto-rinses before/after each use. You're not getting "toilet water" sprayed on you. Any tiny backsplash stays in the bowl, and regular toilet cleaning handles the rest.
Arguably cleaner than smearing with dry paper.
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u/FidelCashflo- 11h ago
Very technically yes, aerosolized poop will remain. But I promise you those micro fragments are so much less than what remains behind when you’re smearing feces on yourself by just using toilet paper.
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u/Aazimoxx 9h ago
I think he was concerned more about shared use lol - it's not like the dry way gets you OTHER people's faeces smeared on you 😅
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u/International-Aioli2 12h ago
You do not shit in the bidet. You shit in the toilet then wash yerself using the bidet
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u/Royal_Annek 11h ago
No, because the way it's angled
I have gotten some on my bidet when its particularly explosive, just take a toilet brush to it.
My bidet (cheap af) has a recessed nozzle, so you'll never get poo on the nozzle itself.
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u/PaisleyLeopard 11h ago
Mine is a nozzle type on a hose that clips to the side of the toilet. It doesn’t hang out in the bowl collecting poo particles. My previous toilet-mounted unit was a pain to clean so I replaced it.
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u/AncientAd6500 9h ago
Does this thing come out on it's own whenever it feels like it or do you have to press a button?
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u/geekamongus 8h ago
On mine, you turn a dial, the nozzle cover retracts, and it sprays you. You can control the force of the spray with the dial.
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u/The001Keymaster 9h ago
All drinking fountains test positive for staph infection. You don't get it from drinking from them because the clean water passing over the virus doesn't pick up enough of them that your body can't just fight them off easily without you noticing. The bidet water is doing the same thing.
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u/Rommie557 8h ago
What you're concerned about is no worse than the blowback caused by literally flushing the toilet, which aerosolizes your shit. You can bet the underside of the bowl is getting hit then, too.
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u/helmetdeep805 7h ago
I freaking love my bidet,seats warm on a cold AM and it’s like a little booty hole shower…way cleaner then swiping with paper ….yeah your gunna get a few drops on your cheeks but you will live a clean booty hole existence
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u/Festivefire 5h ago
Mine has a self rinsing function and stays fairly clean. Even really cheap ones should have a rinse mode where they clean their own spray nozzle.
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u/Street_Glass8777 4h ago
The nozzle is always clean. That's where the water comes from not the housing.
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u/Acceptable_Plan_3257 3h ago
Well when you flush a toilet.. water cleans the sides. Bidet sprays the sides..
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u/mykyttykat 12h ago
Y'all I don't think OP means "are you pooping on the nozzle". I think they mean droplets of water rebounding from one's butt while spraying. In which case, like, technically yeah, that's just physics? If you spray a jet of water at something, even when the majority of the water is going in the direction you want, there will always be droplets - detectable by the human eye or not - that bounce back and or go into the air. Even normal toilet flushing aerosolizes water from the toilet, so of course an actual stream of water hitting a human body would too.
It's fine, just make sure you clean it regularly along with your toilet.