Tag: STIs from toilet seat

  • Can you get STIs/ STDs from a toilet seat?

    Can you get STIs/ STDs from a toilet seat?

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    Medically reviewed by

    Dr Nidhi M Jhamb

    Sexually transmitted infections (STIs), also called sexually transmitted diseases (STDs), are transmitted mainly through sex. Other forms of transmission include mother-to-baby transmission during pregnancy and delivery, through shared needles while injecting drugs, blood transfusions with infected blood, tattooing with non-sterile needles, close skin-to-skin contact with an infected person and so on. Toilet seats, though, harbour…