Thread: Do you use hand sanitizer?

Originally Posted by gregs656

I would use it around hospitals etc as I think they're used to prevent cross contamination and are pretty effective doing it, for my day to day life, how ever, it's not an issue.

+1

And I actually like when my kids gets all dirty when playing in the garden or pickup a chewing gum from the floor...

I do when I'm at work. Like some of the other gents here I work in a healthcare setting. I run the shipping office for a hospital/university/research institute in PDX. I deal with people bringing in packages from their labs all day long with who know's what in it or on it. My favorite is when someone brings said items into my office and they are wearing lab gloves, drop the package off then take the gloves off????? Times like that I wonder if I even want that shipment in my office to begin with.I fugure that with the constant barrage of chemical and biological whatever it's better to be safe than sorry. Even with that I tend to do regular handwashing quite a bit.

now that i think of it i really should have put another option :
No i prefer hand washing

oops!

i use it every now and then just only when i see it sitting around or when i go to the hospital for something (it just seems like the hospital stuff should work better) other than that i dont really think it helps all that much, i prefer soap and water. plus i get to get my h1n1 shot next week woopie cant wait for that

-dan-