How to Use a Bidet
You may be surprised to find how often this comes up in that a lot of people simply do not know how to use a bidet. It's a concept so alien that people avoid asking the question altogether due to its sensitive nature and embarrassing topic. Honestly, some people feel you may as well be asking an adult how to use the toilet as another adult. But really, its no problem! Old devices in some households are brand new in others and the bidet is no exception. Do you know American households are one of the last in the world to discover the use of bidets? In Japan and Europe it is unusual to find a toilet without a bidet now a days. So here is a complete step by step guide to using a bidet.
A bidet looks like a toilet but has warm-water jets for personal hygiene after you use the toilet. You might appreciate a bidet before sex, during menstruation, or if you have hemorrhoids, problems with bowel movements or physical disabilities.
Steps:
1. Have bidet devices fitted on your toilet, or install a separate freestanding bidet next to your toilet if there's enough room in your bathroom.
2. Sit on your bidet after using the toilet.
3. Turn on the water and adjust the jets so that the strength of the stream is comfortable. The direction of the stream can usually be adjusted.
4. Cleanse anus and/or genitals. Some bidets are equipped with an air-dryer to dry skin afterwards. Otherwise, pat skin dry with toilet paper or towel.
5. Rinse out the bidet if it is freestanding.
Use of free standing bidet
- When you are finished defecating, wipe your anal opening one time in the usual manner, throwing the toilet tissue in the toilet. This prevents excessive feces from being washed off into the bidet.
- Turn the hot water on in the bidet and open the spray valve until the water is spraying about six to eight inches high. When the water feels hot to the hand, adjust the cold water valve until the spray is comfortable, being careful not to let the spray column exceed over a foot in height.
- Straddle the bidet, sitting on the rim and align the anal opening with the column of spray water. Gradually open the spray valve until adequate pressure is achieved to flush the remaining feces from the anus.
- Go back to the toilet and check with toilet tissue to make sure that the anus is clean.
This may take some trial and error to perfect. Be careful adjusting the spray column to avoid scalding the anus. Some bidets recommend that cold water only be connected to the bidet for people over 60 years of age.
For females only: The bidet is an excellent utility for cleaning up the female genitalia after intercourse.
The procedure is the same, except no toilet tissue is needed.
Bidets are sometimes mounted in various positions and may have limited room around them, requiring different facing positions. Either facing forward or backward works efficiently. If the valves are behind, it requires reaching behind the back to adjust them.
