Do you use hand dryers?

[lu-ci-fer]

So im quite curious about this topic..

when you use a public toilet do you use the hand dryer (when available) to dry your hands or not? and why?

After learning 3 years ago that hand-dryers are known to harbour mycrobes and bacteria pulled up from the surroundings potentially spreading organisms such as salmonella and E. colli (just to name a few) and potentially putting your health and near bystanders health at risk i refuse to go near a hand dryer, instead i'll use paper towel (if available) and if there is nothing else available ill use hand sanitizer and wash my hands properly at the next bathroom i come across..

yes! how else am i supposed to dry them

wash my hands?

NO WAY!!

only the new jet air hand dryers

only if there is no paper towel

i use hand sanitizer

i drip dry/ use my shirt/ other (please explain)

[Anonymous]

I will use hand sanitizer or not wash my hands at all. I know not washing may seem gross but if I'm in public or anytime I go pee I'm not peeing on my hands or even have skin to skin contact to get any germs on me. I figure touching the soap dispenser, turning on and off the sink, touching the dryer and the doors has far more germs than the fact that I just peed and had no contact with myself. If I have hand sanitizer or see a dispenser I'll use it if not I don't think it's a big deal because I'm not peeing on my hands.

[BellePepper]

I hate them too. They're filthy and bad for your skin.

[Applefan1]

I use hand dryers or paper tells or whatever they have and have never been sick once. People these days are too protective of this kind of stuff and as a result they are making their immune systems weak and getting sick all the time. I just personally feel there is too many protective products in the supermarket etc to. If you don't let your body fight a little bit when you get sick you make your immune system weak and then you end up a person that gets sick all the time.

[Applefan1]

This has actually been said by heath experts by the way.

[Filipe97]

I never use those things for the exact same reason as you

[jakeofalltrades]

i rather use paper towels, they get my hands drier than the air ones do