Why you should never wipe more than 3 times after pooping

Let’s be real – we’ve all been there. You finish up your bathroom business and, for whatever reason, you find yourself wiping more times than you’d like to admit.

Maybe it’s three wipes, maybe it’s five – but one expert says if you’re wiping more than three times, something might be off.

In a TikTok video that’s taken the internet by storm, a pelvic floor physiotherapist from BIEN Australia breaks it down and offers some eye-opening advice for anyone struggling with excessive wiping.

Spoiler alert: It might not be as simple as just trying harder.

So, what’s going on?

Georgia Reupert-Allen is physiotherapist and expert in womens health and pelvic floor physiotherapy. And according to her, wiping more than three times is called faecal smearing, and it happens when there’s still leftover stool at the entrance of your bottom after using the bathroom