If you make people use Purell before touching your baby...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Have you ever looked up from a diaper change to see your toddler smearing the diaper cream all over their face or been in the bathroom to take a pee, and have them get something off the bathroom vanity like hand cream that they proceed to eat? I don't like purell in the house because if one of my toddlers picked it up, the next thing they would do is undo the cap and squeeze it out, then into the mouth it goes. I cannot imagine having that stuff in my purse or on the changing table. No thanks.

Goodness gracious, by that logic, shouldn't you stop using your diaper cream that they're smearing all over their faces, or get rid of the hand cream? I don't think Desitin is really great for the kids to eat, either.

This message board is so strange, but it does make me laugh. I'm obsessive for using Purell after touching a grocery cart, an escalator, the Metro, a gas pump -- things that are guaranteed to have been touched by hundreds of people before me, and something that costs about a dollar and takes two seconds to do -- but it's just good sense to keep Purell out of your house on the off-chance that your DC somehow manages to drink it? To each her own!

I don't think you understand the difference. It is not very dangerous for a child to ingest a little bit of hand cream, but it is dangerous for them to ingest Purell. This isn't strange, it is a fact.

Aren't you the parent? Don't you keep these things out of your child's reach? You have no paint, cleaners, bleach, shampoo, dish detergent in the house? Toothpaste can be harmful to a small child if injested, so can wine or beer! Seriously, having Purrell in the house doesn't mean that the kid has to play with it and eat it. Common sense would tell you to keep it out of their reach but apparently lots of parents on this board lack common sense.

[Anonymous]

This Purell-mania is over the top! We never did this kind of stuff or limited DS' contact with other people. He's now nearly 6. And guess what? Except for the occasional ear infection, he's almost never sick (we don't count colds, which also aren't frequent). People who have this germ-phobia are setting up their kids for getting sicker and possibly developing allergies too. All the childcare books note that eating dirt on the playground, while not to be encouraged, isn't going to hurt kids either...