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Try a sitz basin. You can get one from Amazon or major drug store chain for under $20. It's a plastic basin that you put in your toilet and use once or twice a day if needed (seat up, so the basin tucks into the toilet snugly). And remove it when someone needs the toilet.  Fill the basin with very (very) warm, but not hot, water. Lower your bum into the basin. You'll notice that the water you displace will flow safely out of the little hole in the back of the basin. Sit in the sitz basin, now on top of your toilet, until the water cools. Refill with fresh warm water, if necessary. My takedown nurse taught me this. She said the very warm water will encourage blood circulation to that small bum area and will heal fissures, cuts, Bum Burn, raw, excoriated skin. The basin is an easier way to soothe that hidden area than filling a tub.

Also try a plastic bidet bottle that you carry in your purse and fill it just before you enter a stall. Amazon or health care equipment store for around $15. These two systems will keep you clean, fresh, soothed and heal any raw skin. Good luck.

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