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Can i get crabs from a toilet seat?

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Highly unlikely: Pubic lice are caught by sexual activity and do not live long off there host. Get treatment and be checked for other sexually transmitted diseases such as syphilis, hiv, gonorrhea, non gonococcal urethritis.

Answered 1/14/2012

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Dr. Heidi Fowler answered

Specializes in Psychiatry

VERY unlikely: Pubic lice or crabs (Phthirus pubis) can be spread by vector transmission. Wearing someone else’s clothes that are contaminated or infected towels, bed sheets or towels can give you lice. It would be highly unlikely to get lice from a toilet seat because they will die fairly quickly if away from a warm body. They don’t have the capacity to move on smooth surfaces.

Answered 11/3/2018

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