Can U Get Stds From Toilet Seats

The virus also gets into your body through tiny tears and scrapes.

Can u get stds from toilet seats.

Coli shigella streptococcus hepatitis a virus the common cold virus and various sexually transmitted organisms. You d basically have to try to get an sti from a toilet by rubbing an open wound or mucous membrane all over fluids left there by someone who had used the toilet only seconds before. It s a sexually transmitted disease spread by skin to skin contact. Toilet seat was initially considered as a source of infection but now it has been proved that not all infections are transmitted through sharing of seats.

It s nearly impossible to get genital herpes from a toilet seat. Typically the virus gets into the body via mucous membranes found in your genitals mouth or anus. A toilet seat doesn t offer an environment for stds to thrive so it can t live there for more than 10 seconds they. To get chlamydia from a toilet seat you d have to bring your genitals into contact with the toilet seat which is impossible if you are straddling the toilet the right way.