Health care providers... cheer that bidets clean better than toilet paper; help prevent vaginitis, urinary tract infections, and other ailments; and leave things cleaner and fresher smelling down there before and after sex, and during menstruation. They are clearly a huge help for people with hemorrhoids, diarrhea, rashes, and infections, which toilet tissue can aggravate, spread, and add to already painful situations. Bidets help physically challenged people, the elderly, pregnant women, post surgical patients, and others for whom standing, reaching, bending, and other movements are painful, difficult or impossible.

Columbia University Health Services