After/while doing laundry, do you wash your hands?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:yes, wash hands after putting dirty laundry in washer with detergent. Wash hands before taking clothes out of dryer and folding. No i never get sick from being "too clean". Also don't wear shoes in my house (GASP)

Not wearing shoes in house is common sense. Washing hands before switching your clothes into the dryer is paranoia.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Why would I wash my hands? I don’t use pods. What part of doing laundry would require a hand washing? Truly bizarre.

+100

Maybe if I get soap on my hands I'd rinse them? This has never crossed my mind.

It's amazing to me the weird "clean" rules people have. Yet we couldn't get huge swaths of people to take an ACTUAL illness seriously. AMAZING!

[Anonymous]

What clothing borne pathogen are you trying to avoid here?

[Anonymous]

If I get soap on my hands I rinse them but don’t feel a need to wash.

I use old fashioned soap, soapnuts and vinegar in the wash and wool balls in the dryer, so no nasty chemical residues in my laundry anyway. Don’t know why people pay for all that nasty stuff.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If I get soap on my hands I rinse them but don’t feel a need to wash.

I use old fashioned soap, soapnuts and vinegar in the wash and wool balls in the dryer, so no nasty chemical residues in my laundry anyway. Don’t know why people pay for all that nasty stuff.

I will say that doing laundry for one of my clients, one of the kids works road crew and I have washed my hands after touching those clothes on the way into the washer. They all smell like gas/oil.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Why would I wash my hands? I don’t use pods. What part of doing laundry would require a hand washing? Truly bizarre.

+100

Maybe if I get soap on my hands I'd rinse them? This has never crossed my mind.

It's amazing to me the weird "clean" rules people have. Yet we couldn't get huge swaths of people to take an ACTUAL illness seriously. AMAZING!

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, wash hands after putting dirty laundry in washer with detergent. Wash hands before taking clothes out of dryer and folding. No i never get sick from being "too clean". Also don't wear shoes in my house (GASP)

Not wearing shoes in house is common sense. Washing hands before switching your clothes into the dryer is paranoia.

Not the first PP but I wash my hand before switching clothes from washer to dryer and again when removing clothes from dryer to fold so that I don't get the crud from my hands on my clean laundry.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What clothing borne pathogen are you trying to avoid here?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:yes, wash hands after putting dirty laundry in washer with detergent. Wash hands before taking clothes out of dryer and folding. No i never get sick from being "too clean". Also don't wear shoes in my house (GASP)

Not wearing shoes in house is common sense. Washing hands before switching your clothes into the dryer is paranoia.

Not the first PP but I wash my hand before switching clothes from washer to dryer and again when removing clothes from dryer to fold so that I don't get the crud from my hands on my clean laundry.

DP. I just don't walk around with dirty hands, I guess. That works for me.

[Anonymous]

Also only if I get detergent on them. And then I just rinse. Because it's already soap.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:After putting dirty laundry into washer, yes. No other time.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What clothing borne pathogen are you trying to avoid here?

1st response writer: literally almost anything with a fecal-oral transmission route, all of which is routinely found in samples of laundry that is “not that dirty.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What clothing borne pathogen are you trying to avoid here?

1st response writer: literally almost anything with a fecal-oral transmission route, all of which is routinely found in samples of laundry that is “not that dirty.”

I hate to exacerbate your debilitating anxiety, but literally *everything* can be "fecal-oral" transmission. Remote control, laptop, home doorknobs (let alone *GASP* public doorknobs!), clothes hangers you touch over and over again, the sink handles, the towel racks, your shoelaces, your makeup brushes, your hairbrushes, your hair styling tools and products, etc. If you washed your hands every time you touched anything that could have micro fecal particles on them, your hands would be raw.

I sincerely am so grateful that I'm not a germophobe - it sounds exhausting and horrible for your immune system.

[Anonymous]

Yep. It leads to more infections because of the breakdown of the skin.

[Anonymous]

Absolutely!