Urine and STD - STDs - MedHelp

Welcome to the forum. Thanks for your question.

From the title of your question, I first assumed you would be asking about exposure to a partner's urine during sex.??Urine probably transmits STDs rarely, if ever; it tends to inactivate bacteria and viruses, and there is no evidence that even overt exposure to partners' urine -- swallowing, eye contact, etc ("water sports") -- carries any STD risk.

The risk from contacting urine in a public restroom probably is even lower.??Even if there were contaminated semen, vaginal fluids, or blood, nobody has ever been known to catch any STD in a public toilet (assuming they didn't have sex while there!).??Even self-wiping with the same toilet paper, as you describe, carries no chance of catching an STD.??If there is any disease transmission risk in public toilets, it is for common colds, influenza, and other common non-STD infections, which comes from touching the sink, doorknobs, etc, not the toilet itself or genital secretions, and even this risk is zero if common sense hygiene is used (hand washing, etc).

You may have heard stories about people catching herpes or other STDs from contaminated public toilets.??These are urban myths.??They tend to persist when people don't want to admit other, obvious exposures, i.e. sexual exposure that embarrass them.

So there is no risk at all from events like you describe.??Don't worry about it.

Best wishes--??HHH, MD

Source: http://www.medhelp.org/posts/STDs/Urine-and-STD/show/1813815

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