Bidets can enhance comfort and hygiene, but only if used correctly. Learning to use a bidet properly helps prevent irritation, infection, and overuse.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may be time to upgrade your bathroom routine. Lasha Kilasonia/Getty Images Ah, bidets. If you've ever traveled ...

You may have seen them in bathrooms during trips abroad: a second porcelain trough, next to the toilet, that looks like a cross between a urinal and a sink. That thing there is a bidet, people!

Until I was about 14 years old, I thought only two types of bathroom-goers existed: Those who use toilet paper and those who use wet wipes. But then I traveled from my home-base of Northeast Philly to ...

Editor: This week's column continues the discussion of the bidet, common in Europe and elsewhere but not in the United States. So, I decided to do some learning about the bidet toilet and its benefits ...

“This is not no regular toilet bowl,” gushes DJ Khaled on Instagram, fawning over a new toilet that rapper Drake sent to his home. “This is the most amazing toilet bowl I ever seen in my life.” The ...

While bidets are common in many parts of the world, the majority of the people in the United States prefer to use toilet paper. Yet toilet paper can be rough on the skin, doesn’t provide a very ...

"If a bird pooped on you, would you wipe it off with paper, or wash it away?" The words of Miki Agrawal, the founder of Tushy, a company that sells affordable bidet attachments, haunted me for days.

Ah, bidets. If you've ever traveled internationally—especially in Europe and Japan—you've probably encountered bidet toilets, which offer a few extra features you don't typically find here in the U.S.