Comments on: Vash your hands

By: OM

OM — Tue, 19 Apr 2016 01:20:22 +0000

The main problem is that most people don’t wash long enough. Twenty seconds with soap/detergent and warm water (food handlers permit For What It’s Worth). Try it and time your self. And that isn’t getting into specific technique (where to wash, what not to be wearing). Infection control protocols at Hospice facilities that I am familiar with do NOT allow anti-bacterial soaps/detergents, but are very specific on hand washing methods.

By: Artfldgrs

Artfldgrs — Mon, 18 Apr 2016 20:08:48 +0000

detergent causes bacteria to fall apart. the cell walls are lipids… and detergent is a polar molecule… so antibiotic is not going to add much to a cell thats dead cause its cell walls fell apart like a grease spot in a tide commercial

By: Frog

Frog — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 18:38:14 +0000

The effects of air dryers are fairly obvious, but the soap v. antibacterial soap stuff is unclear.
Soap is soap, is it not?
Are the antibacterial soaps different as soaps from the plain soaps? Do they both saponify? Equally? That would be the “control” side of the evaluation.

By: F

Sun, 17 Apr 2016 03:26:05 +0000

Neo:

I presume you have missed (unless you identify as a man and use the mens room) a common scrawl above the new high pressure hand dryers in the gents’ loo: “THIS IS NOT A URINAL”. One can only speculate on what a mess that would cause!

By: F

Sun, 17 Apr 2016 03:23:24 +0000

Vanderleun:

I always thought Yale men were taught to wash their hands BEFORE using the bathroom. Mustn’t soil one’s personal equipment, after all.

By: Geoffrey Britain

Geoffrey Britain — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 01:52:48 +0000

vanderluen,

The GOPe has been pissing on our ‘hands’ for decades and telling us that it’s rain.

By: OM

OM — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 01:39:49 +0000

You can’t use the air dryer to grasp the door handle to get out of the bathroom, poof, bye bye clean hands.

By: GRA

GRA — Sun, 17 Apr 2016 00:50:25 +0000

I find this amusing because I remember in grade school there was a little tree etched onto the metal signage of the hand dryer.

“Save the trees and reduce garbage!”

Nonetheless hand dyers are a novel idea.

By: blert

blert — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 23:20:30 +0000

You nailed it neo…

Most bacteria are busy competing against each other.

It turns out that bacteria — like locusts — MORPH their behavior when they sense that they, and their kin, are in the many.

Such concentrations are taken as cues that conditions are ripe for hyper reproduction.

This is still a contentious theory — and may yet prove false — but it would go along way towards explaining why diseases seem to go dormant — and then — when the stars line up — explode virulently.

By: Paul in Boston

Paul in Boston — Sat, 16 Apr 2016 20:02:32 +0000

I love hand sanitizers. We were out to lunch with family one day when I noticed a black mark on my pants. A little sanitizer and bingo, the mark was gone.