Men’s toilet doors have SIX TIMES more germs on them than ladies’ as ‘more blokes don’t wash their hands after using bathroom’

MEN’S toilet doors are said to have SIX TIMES more germs than ladies’ as “more blokes don’t wash their hands after using the bathroom”.

And they don’t think it’s a problem, with only half of men believing not washing their hands is “high risk”, The Royal Public Society revealed.

In comparison, two-thirds of women believe not washing hands is a significant issue.

A more recent study swabbed the door handles of an office building in London, to find the men’s bathroom door had six times more bacteria than the ladies.

The male doors even had four times the amount of bacteria found on an average toilet seat.

Sally Bloomfield, honorary professor of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine told the Daily Mail: “We know from our research that women tend to practise better hygiene and more often wash their hands after using the bathroom.

“Hand hygiene is important after touching bathroom doors touched by other people.

“So keeping a hand sanitiser in the drawer and using it when you return to your desk could be a solution to men not washing their hands after using the bathroom.”

The study contained swab samples from 24 female and male bathroom doors in a London office.

They were taken with a handheld device which uses light to measure the presence of microbes.

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