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Dr. Maria Luque's avatar

I love how you explain things. To the point, evidence-based, with lots of humor. I am smarter for reading your work. Thank you!

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Cherida Lally's avatar

Intuitively I have always known this! It just seemed absurd! Thanks for addressing it.

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Ida Santana MD's avatar

I’ve never had a UTI in my life and am a lifetime back to front wiper and was told ad nauseam this would cause UTIs but never believed the scary adults in my life aka my mother.

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MS's avatar

Catching up on older posts, so informative AND entertaining. Sharing this. As always, thank you.

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Kathryn Kemp's avatar

What about wiping side-to-side, which is easy to do. Here is my routine: first, a major cleanup wipe, then a detail wipe, and last, put a dot of lotion on some tissue & apply.

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ABossy's avatar

Very useful article! I used to suffer from chronic, resistant yeast infections. Awful. I was advised at the time to never wipe back-to-front as that might have been the cause. Not sure.

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