A toilet seat doesn t offer an environment for stds to thrive so it can t live there for more than 10 seconds they.
Can u get stds from toilet seats.
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.
Toilet seat was initially considered as a source of infection but now it has been proved that not all infections are transmitted through sharing of seats.
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.
Coli shigella streptococcus hepatitis a virus the common cold virus and various sexually transmitted organisms.
It s nearly impossible to get genital herpes from a toilet seat.
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.
Typically the virus gets into the body via mucous membranes found in your genitals mouth or anus.
It s a sexually transmitted disease spread by skin to skin contact.