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Old 11-07-2009, 09:51 PM   #42
HindsFeet
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Default Re: Hand Sanitizer -- yea or nay?

Interesting thread. Dh was just asking me the other day if I thought he should carry some hand sanitizer in his car for when he's out and about shaking a ton of hands at all these meetings he's going to.

I'm not particularly germ phobic either (dh, on the other hand..). I still remember sitting in class at vet school, talking about autoimmune diseases. The professor mentioned our country's obsession with cleanliness, and how if we disinfect everything so much that our immune system has no external things to fight, it kind of goes nuts and turns on our own bodies, for lack of anything else to do. So, a certain degree of dirt etc. is not a big deal to me. There are many, many times when the kids have come in from playing outside and don't wash their hands before eating

I do try to be more cautious when we're out and about. I think the posting about proper handwashing is great. When we scrubbed prior to surgery, it was a 5 minute ordeal. Obviously you don't need that at home, but it does need to be more thorough than most people perform. I know people who teach their kids to sing the ABC song or whatever to help them know how long to scrub for. And, at least in public restrooms, turning off the faucet with a paper towel is key - otherwise you're just contaminating your hand with the germs you left on it when you turned it on.

What I'm not sure about is how this translates to hand washing at home. Do you all use paper towels at home, or cloth hand towels? If you use cloth towels, how often do you change them out?
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