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If you make people use Purell before touching your baby...
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Anonymous
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"I'm a nurse and if you, mom, ask me to do purell before touching your baby
I'LL LAUGH AT YOU!" ..and if you do this at work in a medical environment, I'll file a complaint about you! Medical professionals are required to wash or sanitize their hands between patients. |
zumbamama
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| The nurse only mentioned that she didn't use Purell. Perhaps she uses soap and water instead? |
Anonymous
Seems the bottle says non-toxic so I suppose it is safe to eat if you are into that kind of thing. Is soap non-toxic? http://www.buybuybaby.com/product.asp?order_num=-1&SKU=113480& Water Journey® Hands2Go Foaming Instant Hand Sanitizer Formulated with a moisturizing blend of aloe vera, chamomile, and lavender, this foaming hand sanitizer kills 99.9% of germs and will not dry skin. It is pure and gentle enough for frequent cleansing when soap and water are not available, and contains no alcohol, which means it is also non-flammable. Unlike gels or creams, water-based, non-greasy foam formula is never sticky. |
Anonymous
Get in line -- another micro mom!! |
Anonymous
If it's alcohol free, it doesn't work. |
Anonymous
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Alcohol sanitizers aren't recommended because they are superior. They are recommended because people wash their hands more when they are around.
This is why the CDC recommends them for hospitals. You can carry it in your pocket or put it in front of every door, it takes just a few seconds, and it doesn't dry you out as much as soap and water (try washing your hands 4-5 times an hour for an entire 8 hour shift and see what I mean). But the same thing is often true in the home. There are plenty of situations where we would skip cleaning up if we had to put down the baby, run to the bathroom, and wash up. It's a heck of a lot easier to squirt on some gel in those situations or when we are on the go and nowhere near a bathroom. These gels are way better than skipping it altogether. So if there are times that the convenience and availability of hand sanitizers will encourage you to clean up more often, then use them! And if you have the extra time to wash your hands with soap and water, then that's fine, too. |
Anonymous
Not true. |
Anonymous
Not true. Soap works doesn't it? |
Anonymous
Let's think about this for a sec. I really can't think of a time when I'd be at home and suddenly need to purell my hands. I'm figuring that after using the toilet, messing around with food, cleaning the litter box, digging in the garden, or having just changed the baby I will have properly washed my hands. NOT just to kill germs, but also to remove gunk off my hands (which purell doesn't do - it doesn't clean stuff). In all other cases, I'm thinking the baby is already being exposed to anything that would end up on my hands. I'll be the first to admit that my house isn't exactly sterile. Most of us would be better served to be more concerned about what's in the carpets. |
Anonymous
I guess zumbamama is the only intelligent woman here besides the others who didn't say anything stupid. |
Anonymous
I use Purell (or the equivalent) most often outside of the house -- after I've wiped off a grocery cart, pumped gas, gotten off the Metro, ridden on an escalator, touched money, etc. |
Anonymous
The first part of your statement is mostly true. In situations where dirt and not just germs are involved, alcohol gels don't do the whole job. That is important to know, and some people seem to not get that. However, many people don't wash their hands if they don't see visible dirt on their hands. I see parents do diaper changes all the time, and it appears to me that they only wash up if they think they came into contact with poop. But the fact that they didn't get poop on their hands does not mean they don't have germs on their hands, and a quick squirt of hand gel makes a big difference. Your second statement about the baby already being exposed to everything else is wrong, however. Your hand washing addresses several sources of bacterial contamination, (and really only the ones where you get physical dirt on your hands btw). But you mentioned no situations you wash up to prevent the spread of viruses. Since most viruses infect people by moving from the hand to the mouth, hand gels can do a heck of a lot to interrupt this important method of transmission. |
Anonymous
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alcohol doesn't kill the germs.
it PARALYZES them JUST FOR A WHILE!!!! that's why they rub a little bit in the site of the injection. NOTHING WORKS BETTER THAN SOAP AND WATER... LOOOOOOTS OF WATER! |
Anonymous
| Interesting point.. I'm a nanny of an active toddler and a newborn, and sometimes when I am changing one diaper while trying to keep the active toddler in check, I just can't stand there and wash my hands for two minutes. The parents leave a bottle of purell on the changing table which is what I use when I'm on the go. |
Anonymous
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I have Purell on the changing table and use it after every change. Before I pick up the child to put him back down on the floor, etc. "Then" I go wash my hands thoroughly. It might not help, but it won't hurt in trying not to spread any fecal matter from hands to toddler's shirt as I lift him down.
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