Hand washing

[Medusa]

I can't imagine not washing my hands after using the bathroom - at home or away.

I read once that you need to wash your hands for 15 seconds to be really clean. Try it - it is much longer than you think. I see people who just put their hand under the water and that's it - off they go.............

Yuck! No wonder we all get the flu or colds................

Someone told me to sing Happy Birthday while washing. That's how long we should take to wash our hands, however long it takes us to sing the song.

[gini]

Someone told me to sing Happy Birthday while washing. That's how long we should take to wash our hands, however long it takes us to sing the song.

Somehow the vision of someone standing in front of the sink washing their hands - and looking into the mirror while singing Happy Birthday just cracks me up!

Happy Birthday to me..........
Happy Birthday to me..........

[Kirsten]

I'm always washing my hands.

Kirsten

[kuhio98]

Someone told me to sing Happy Birthday while washing. That's how long we should take to wash our hands, however long it takes us to sing the song.

I do that too!

I always wash my hands. I am allergic to a lot of the hand sanitizers due to the preservatives. Besides, they always made my hands feel sticky. Good 'ole soap and water works every time!

[sirrahbed]

This post gave me a chuckle because I assume I am a bit OCD about handwashing - so it is good to read that I am in good company. oh yes and handsanitizer in my purse. Our grocery store has a big tub of wipes to use as we walk in so I scrub down the plastic push handle on the cart. I never really thought about how dirty the inside gets (another thing to obsess about?) but the food is all in boxes and bags. hmmm....maybe I will have to have an extra handwashing after I handle merchandise, too

Recently I heard about the "Happy Birthday" amount of time to wash and tried it a few times....I think I have not been wasking quite long enough

[Taz_Zoee]

That is so funny this thread was made, because I was thinking about this same exact thing the other day. At work the sinks are separate from the toilets, but you can hear if they wash or not. Another things that icks me out is when people just turn the water on for a few seconds and get their fingertips wet. I wash with lots of soap!!! I guess working with children instilled this in me. When I worked with babies I had to get special soap with lotion because my hands would bleed from washing so much with cheap soap. And probably from the latex gloves too.

I will admit I'm not as diligent in washing my hands at home each time. But I wash them so often for so many other things.

ETA: I meant to say this before. But at work after I wash I use a towel to handle the doors on the way back to my desk. I started this in Dec 03 when EVERYONE in the office got sick. Guess what? I didn't get sick. I had to be in a wedding and didn't want to be not feeling well. So now it's a habit I can't break.
And at home I hate using a dish towel to dry. I have to use a paper towel. Living with my father, you never knew what was on a towel in the kitchen.

[carole]

Absolutely, i would not dream of not doing so, i am fussy when handling my kitties and wash after patting them too, and i do the happy birthday thing, i saw that on the telly once, but i bet some of you don't know it is just as important to dry them well, a university professor here was saying so on a tv programme i watched, so i do that as well.

And yes others are not near as diligent about it as we all here are, i have often seen woman in the public loos, come out and walk straight out, eewwh, imagine what they are going to handle next, could be your food at mcdonalds, no wonder we have such a high rate of food poisoning.

Dare i say it, but i think men are more lax at not washing after their toilet business, infact they did a study here and it proved that this statement is indeed true, nawtee boys.

[Catlady711]

Someone told me to sing Happy Birthday while washing. That's how long we should take to wash our hands, however long it takes us to sing the song.

I had read that it was the ABC's, so that's what I sing. lol

Actually I've read articles that say because of the anti-bacterial everything (shampoos, soaps, lotions, etc) that people are getting sicker because they have no immunity to the bacteria, and it kills off good bacteria by using it so much.

[IRescue452]

I always wash my hands with soap and for a good amount of time but I'm nowhere near a germ freak. I probably don't wash as good in the middle of the night, and sometimes at work if I know I'm gonna be sticking my hands in a bucket of ammonia chloride when I get out of the bathroom I'll not be so diligent on washing. I have poor circulation so if the water is warm I'll take a few minutes to wash my hands just for the heat value.

[RICHARD]

DUDE.

After working in a hospital for a while I got to know that it's one of the places where you can and will get anykind of ailment.

My office was next door to the restroom and I was well acquainted with people's habits.

MY office was in the anesthesiologist's area -some weren't bad, others??

The people that gross me out and make me want to kick them in the groin are the stupid men who use a cell at a urinal. They stand there and when the phone rings they HAVE TO STOP, pull the phone out and answer it.


Frigging nasty to think what the germ transfer is from their crotch to the keypad. MORONS!

[caseysmom]

I voted yes but not all the time...because the middle of the night potty runs don't get hand washings.