Medical Breakthrough: After 200 years of use by millions of people around the world and 20 years of widespread adoption in Japan, two medical researchers in the US finally checked to see if bidet-style toilets were more sanitary. What were their findings?
“Bacterial content of urine decreased in the experimental group and increased in the comparison group during the trial.” Translation: Women in the study all slowly developed UTIs if they weren’t using bidets.
So early research has now confirmed what common sense already knew: handling your own feces with little tuffs of white paper turns out to be a bad long-term health strategy.
Coincidentally, 1.7 million Americans contract hospital acquired infections every year. And a staggering 100,000 die annually from them. I wonder what kind of infections these people are getting? Oh look! Turns out 36% are urinary tract infections. US medical professional must have noticed that their Japanese counterparts only have a 5% rate of UTIs for their hospital acquired infections. Surely they connected these dots and started saving the extra 31,000 people / year dying in the US of these preventable infections? Nope. They aren’t even studying it. People don’t sue hospitals for the kinds of infections that they “give themselves” through “poor hygiene”.
Maybe a few generations from now, doctors will begin learning germ theory… or how to read medical literature from 2005… or how to notice when an entire other country just doesn’t have some problem that they do.
In the mean time, why don’t you leapfrog American medical professionals and become as well-informed as the average Japanese citizen. Here’s a quick thought experiment that can help. Imagine you had feces *anywhere* else on your body. Would you even briefly consider the solution of wiping it off with a piece of paper and going back to whatever you were doing?
If not, perhaps you should consider buying a $36 aftermarket bidet. They attach to normal toilet seats and are freaking amazing. They get hundreds of real 5-star ratings on Amazon for a reason. For reference, I bought the Luxe MB-110.
