Besides portable bidets that attach to your toilet seat, there are special bidet toilet seats that replace your standard one. Some heat the water, some heat the seat, and have separate nozzles and reservoirs for feminine solutions. While rather expensive, they save space, and do not require any plumbing changes beyond a diverter that attaches to the water supply. There are also cheap handheld showers you can hook up to your bathroom faucet, if it is close to the toilet. Any shower head will fit with a faucet adapter. To use, sit on the toilet with the seat up. These work well, but may splash water on to the floor--especially the rubber ones that require no adapter; they need a rounded faucet head, preferably gooseneck, to avoid leaking.
Correction: the portable rubber handheld shower head, actually a shampoo hose, will not leak if you have a round or ovoid faucet SPOUT. The rubber gasket has a round hole, not square as most faucet spouts are. The gooseneck or semi-gooseneck faucet is even better for these portable units.Correction: the portable rubber handheld shower head, actually a shampoo hose, will not leak if you have a round or ovoid faucet SPOUT. The rubber gasket has a round hole, not square as most faucet spouts are. The gooseneck or semi-gooseneck faucet is even better for these portable units.
A bidet may also be a nozzle attached to an existing toilet, or a part of the toilet itself. In this case, its use is restricted to cleaning the **** and ****. Some bidets of this type have two nozzles, the shorter one, called the family nozzle, is used for washing the area around the ****, and the longer one (bidet nozzle) is designed for women to wash their vulva. These bidets are often controlled electronically rather than with a traditional tap, and some have an element under the seat which heats up to dry the user after washing.
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Besides portable bidets that attach to your toilet seat, there are special bidet toilet seats that replace your standard one. Some heat the water, some heat the seat, and have separate nozzles and reservoirs for feminine solutions. While rather expensive, they save space, and do not require any plumbing changes beyond a diverter that attaches to the water supply. There are also cheap handheld showers you can hook up to your bathroom faucet, if it is close to the toilet. Any shower head will fit with a faucet adapter. To use, sit on the toilet with the seat up. These work well, but may splash water on to the floor--especially the rubber ones that require no adapter; they need a rounded faucet head, preferably gooseneck, to avoid leaking.
Correction: the portable rubber handheld shower head, actually a shampoo hose, will not leak if you have a round or ovoid faucet SPOUT. The rubber gasket has a round hole, not square as most faucet spouts are. The gooseneck or semi-gooseneck faucet is even better for these portable units.
A bidet may also be a nozzle attached to an existing toilet, or a part of the toilet itself. In this case, its use is restricted to cleaning the **** and ****. Some bidets of this type have two nozzles, the shorter one, called the family nozzle, is used for washing the area around the ****, and the longer one (bidet nozzle) is designed for women to wash their vulva. These bidets are often controlled electronically rather than with a traditional tap, and some have an element under the seat which heats up to dry the user after washing.