Bathroom privileges refers to the rules or the possibility of the use of a

toilet A toilet is a piece of sanitary hardware that collects human waste (urine and feces) and sometimes toilet paper, usually for disposal. Flush toilets use water, while dry or non-flush toilets do not. They can be designed for a sitting p ...

. Most commonly, the term is used in the following settings: * In schools, it refers to permission for students to leave the classroom during lessons. Often this is associated with certain regulations, such as usage of the hall pass. * As a doctor's prescription, it refers to permission for a patient to use the facilities. This may be due to a

medical condition A disease is a particular abnormal condition that adversely affects the structure or function (biology), function of all or part of an organism and is not immediately due to any external injury. Diseases are often known to be medical condi ...

requiring

bed rest Bed rest, also referred to as the rest-cure, is a medical treatment in which a person lies in bed for most of the time to try to cure an illness. Bed rest refers to voluntarily lying in bed as a treatment and not being confined to bed because of ...

(e.g. high-risk pregnancy), or the avoidance of certain

defecation postures Humans mostly use one of two types of defecation postures to defecate: squatting and sitting. People use the squatting postures when using squat toilets or when defecating in the open in the absence of toilets. The sitting posture on the other ...

(e.g. sitting or squatting) Still another example is "BRP for bowel movement only". On the other hand, if a patient has a

communicable disease An infection is the invasion of tissue (biology), tissues by pathogens, their multiplication, and the reaction of host (biology), host tissues to the infectious agent and the toxins they produce. An infectious disease, also known as a transmis ...

, the physician may wish to restrict the chances of it spreading by disallowing them from using the shared toilet on the ward. * At some workplaces, it refers to formal rules, e.g. the number and the duration of the usage of the bathroom."The agreement covers everything from cigarette breaks to bathroom privileges"—describing a racetrack labor union contract in: T. D. Thornton (2007). ''Not by a Long Shot: A Season at a Hard Luck Horse Track''. .

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