You d basically have to try to get an sti from a toilet by rubbing an open wound or mucous membrane all over fluids left there by someone who had used the toilet only seconds before.
Can u get stds from toilet seats.
A toilet seat doesn t offer an environment for stds to thrive so it can t live there for more than 10 seconds they.
There are few researchers who believe that trichomonas can at times spread through toilet seats but no such cases are encountered yet.
To get chlamydia from a toilet seat you d have to bring your genitals into contact with the toilet seat which is impossible if you are straddling the toilet the right way.
It s a sexually transmitted disease spread by skin to skin contact.
Coli shigella streptococcus hepatitis a virus the common cold virus and various sexually transmitted organisms.
But still there are chances of acquiring certain infections as pathogens and some bacteria can adapt the external environment an can live on toilet seats like antibiotic resistant staphylococcus one of the flesh eating bacteria norovirus cruise ship bug e.
The virus also gets into your body through tiny tears and scrapes.
Stds don t usually survive when they fall off the human body she explains.