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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The company will swear that it's safe as long as you give the counter enough time to dry, but I would not be comfortable doing that. I don't actually use bleach or other powerful disinfectants in my kitchen. Water and a little soap are just fine. Soap disrupts bacterial membranes and therefore kills them. Most viruses don't last on surfaces.

- microbiologist.[/quote]

Do you object to the bleach baths given children with severe eczema, as per standard evidence-based medical protocols?[/quote]

PP you replied to. Do you understand that in severe medical distress, standard of care means addressing the immediate issues at hand, regardless of long-term potential consequences? Are you aware that plenty of medications and treatments aren't actually good for you in the long-run, but they are necessary if you're sick? Think about chemo and what it does to your body.

The long-term, lose-dose contact exposure to certain disinfectants on humans have not been well studied. This is why I cannot cite you a rigorous, in-depth study.

But common sense, and indeed, medical practice, has always been about using the least amount of active ingredients that will do the job, to minimize any negative consequences later. Because we cannot study everything. In particular, and this is very important for you to realize, long-term clinical studies are very expensive and very difficult to organize (patients just up and leave), that's why there are so few for them. Nobody is going to pay millions and millions of dollars for a 50 year study on a household disinfectant. The only examplary long-term study ever done on a large group of patients was on cardiovascular disease. It's extremely famous and yielded an enormous wealth of information, which lead to our current understanding of cardiovascular risks. This the government was prepared to pay for.

It's savvy marketing that makes you believe you need patented cleaning agents in your home. You don't. Soap, vinegar, baking soda, elbow grease, work just fine. They are actually powerful chemicals! H2O is a highly reactive molecule, when you come to think about it :-) "Chemicals" aren't what people usually think they are.

And yes, as a microbiologist and research scientist, I do seem to have a better grasp than you and another PP about how this all works. 
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Not really. And as a board-certified physician, I do seem to see you peddling some crazypants nonsense.[/quote]

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