For children, using toilet paper can result in urethral tract or bladder infections if they wipe
inappropriately or if they suffer from encopresis with constant leakage. Fecal soiling is the
second most common cause for giving up on caring for an elderly person in the home. The
second most common pain disorder in the USA next to headaches is Irritable Bowel Syndrome
(IBS), which often keeps many adults at home fearful of going out because of a fear of fecal
accidents. Incomplete cleaning with toilet paper or wet ones in all of these cases often lead to
painful rashes, infected hemorrhoids, and urinary tract infections. This can all be avoided, but
it will require a major cultural transformation because of our bathroom habits and the advertising
of toilet paper. You never see TV ads for bidets, but perhaps that will change if we can initiate
or prime a green movement toward their use. Think of the forests we can save and the pollution
involved with toilet paper manufacturing.

I have led a movement for the adequate treatment of children with encopresis (soiling) and now
am advocating for a new approach for bathroom hygiene which I am confident will sweep the nation.
Physicians in my area are already prescribing the new modern bidet inserts for their patients
as they are being tried out in nursing homes, day care centers, and a major rehabilitation hospital,
and the Women's Resource Center in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

Interestingly, some local restaurants have reported increased business from installing modern
bidets! The bidets even have a positive benefit in stimulating or completing bowel movements
because of their water jet cleaning and stimulation. This could be helpful for chidren who hold and
resist having a BM on the stool! It may also make sitting on the stool a more positive experience.

These are not the standard European Bidets which require a whole separate stool that you have
to shift over to for turning on a cold stream of water. These units fit on your standard stool at the
back between the water tank and the opening. The deluxe versions feature a padded warm seat,
warm water, and options of a well-directed pulsed stream, back and forth stream, mixed air and water
stream, female stream, warm air dryer, etc. A very cheap, self-installing version with just a directed
cleaning spray is also available.

Click here for the major and enlightened supplier of bidet inserts, DignaCare.