Comments on: A Potty Training Solution for Public Restrooms

By: Restroom Trailer Rental

Restroom Trailer Rental — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 19:24:16 +0000

A lot of public restrooms and portable restroom rentals have disposable liners or other options to keep the seat clean. Surprisingly, a bathroom sink has more germs on it than a toilet seat!

By: Heather @ Green Baby Green Mama

Heather @ Green Baby Green Mama — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 19:01:01 +0000

The pee pee cup is hilarious – love it! I’ve been in some bathrooms where I would have rather peed in a cup!

By: Portable Restrooms

Portable Restrooms — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:12:08 +0000

What you did isn’t disgusting. Urine is 95% water. As for girls, Shewee is a good alternative solution. If the situation asks for it, you can rent Portable Restrooms like for camping so you can be sure the toilet is clean.

By: Jude Dentice

Jude Dentice — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 07:25:25 +0000

The Shewee (www.shewee.com.au ) are a fabulous alternative to having kids sitting on or having to touch a toilet seat. Check it out! washes up in the washing machine with clothes. Excellent for big and little girls!

By: Potties

Potties — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 22:01:00 +0000

Great tip… we are having difficulty with our little one. It was such a disaster at the fair trying to get him into a porto pot.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 13:23:09 +0000

I recently came across your blog and have been reading along. I thought I would leave my first comment. I don’t know what to say except that I have enjoyed reading. Nice blog. I will keep visiting this blog very often.

Susan

http://toddlergirls.net

By: Steph

Steph — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 03:23:01 +0000

Hi! Just happened upon your website and thought I’d chime in. I have a girl and have had her pee in a cup when she’s outside playing in the dirt and is too filthy to come inside. Works just great and she enjoys the novelty of it. Just thought you might like to know that you don’t have to mourn the loss of the pee pee cup just because you’re having a girl

By: Elizabeth

Elizabeth — Tue, 26 May 2009 13:16:07 +0000

Hi! I thought this might help to clear up the last statement.

Getting HIV from Toilet Seat

HIV is a retro virus that has a very short lifespan especially when exposed to air.

For someone to acquire HIV from a toilet seat there would have to be some extremely FRESH biological matter present (semen) and the person who sits on this deposit of matter would have to have an open wound that makes direct contact with the semen.

I say semen because the concentration of the HIV disease in other bio waste is not high enough to be viable.

To sum it up……it is close to impossible to get AIDS (HIV) from a toilet seat.

Supporting answer from WikiAnswers contributor:

* The HIV virus is actually a quite delicate, easily killed virus. It does not survive outside of its human carriers for more than short periods. Specifically, drying kills it. When different solutions were tested to determine what should be recommended as the universal cleanser for body fluid secretions, every solution tested(alcohol, hydrogen peroxide, iodine, betadine, Bactine,etc) were effective. Bleach was chosen since it is so cheap, ubiquitous, and safe. Unless someone just left some wet body fluid, and you had a transfer to a mucous membrane or open wound, it would be possible. It really would take quite a large innoculum (viral load) before there would be a statistically possible transfer. Health care workers have these minor exposures all the time. If it were this deadly, we all would have been gone a long time ago.

By: Penny

Penny — Tue, 26 May 2009 06:44:32 +0000

You could get her a she-wee (http://www.shewee.co.nz/). I’m going to get one myself for long treks in the bush where there are no lavatories, only lava-trees.

When we were little my mum used to hold us up over the loo with her arms under our knees.

Actually, it’s quite difficult to catch anything from toilet seats but if you are concerned you could have a container of cloth wipes impregnated with some sort of germicide to wipe the seat before hand. I have heard that a 1 in 10 solution of bleach will kill the AIDs virus but I may have that wrong.

By: Michele @ Frugal Granola

Michele @ Frugal Granola — Tue, 26 May 2009 02:36:43 +0000

For our daughter, we’ve carried a little potty seat on outings with us. (We have one that is kept in the car, so it’s never forgotten.) Sometimes we just carry it into the restroom, but if discretion is preferred, we just toss it into one of our cloth grocery sacks. It’s worked out great! I think there are some seats that are even more portable (possible foldable?), but I’m not sure.
Here’s a post showing our daughter’s favorite seat: http://frugalgranola.blogspot.com/2009/03/gratituesday-potty-learning.html

Blessings,
Michele