This is a percentage that we can hardly believe: 80% of children who attend primary school avoid going to the bathroom of their establishment. While this Tuesday, November 19, World Toilet Day recalls that four billion people on earth do not have access to sanitary facilities, many French schoolchildren complain about the cleanliness of the latter in their school.
Holding back promotes urinary tract infections
"They do not smell good, and they are often dirty, so I'm restraining myself," says nine-year-old Roxane, a nine-year-old woman who goes to the bathroom every night on her way home. "I'm still surprised when one of my daughters arrives at home in the evening and tells me she is in a hurry, because she has restrained herself all day long," says the father of the little girl girl. If Roxane is not the only one with this reflex, he is bad. Remembering to urinate all day is not a hygienic measure, on the contrary, "it is a risk factor that will promote a urinary tract infection with a germ that you carry," says Dr. Adrien Vidart French association of urology.
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Especially since retaining an urge, it is also to hurt his bladder, with the risk of simply damage. Health professionals, they recommend to relieve themselves six to eight times a day.