Saturday, October 23, 2004
PSA-- fresh steaming servings of OCD for everyone!
listen to Mama -- I *always* know best Reading the ridiculous argument on flu shots over at Little Tiny Hog, [I am oft amazed at the lack of science in many people's worldview...] I am reminded of one of the best flu preventatives there is:Wash your hands like you got OCD!
Wash 'em when you walk into the house! First thing!
Wash 'em every chance you get while out and about!
Try not to touch the usual places people touch the usual places people touch -- hand rails, door knobs, yanno. Pushing open a door a foot higher or lower than everyone else reduces your chances of picking up that one leedle virus that's gonna occupy your whole next three weeks. That's the whole dealio -- avoiding contact with the virus. The most common transmission vector is nose-to-hand-to-surface- [door/counter/handle] -to-hand-to-nose/eye/mouth. Don't touch stuff people have touched and fer the sake of all that is right and good -- don't touch your own face! Now I'm gonna tell ya how to wash your hands. Yeah, I know -- we all learned that in kindeegarden. This is the real deal, taught to me by a CCU nurse. They gotta be even more careful than surgical nurses as they have longer duration contact with the patient and a virus which wouldn't do any harm in a body cavity, properly transmitted, would kill a bypass patient in a heartbeat.Warm water - any kind of soap/detergent. [that anti-bacterial soap is [sing it, Penn] "Bullshit!"] Wet hands. Apply soap. Scrub. That's the ticket -- most of the benefit is derived from the mechanical action of scrubbing the viruses/bacteria/crappola from the hands. Scrub the palms, between the fingers, the backs -- everywhere. KEY: Scrub while you count 15 hippopotamuses. [not 'hippopotomi'] Count 'em slow. Dry with paper when out and clean towels at home. Do not share towels.
That's it. EZ, huh? And I guarantee you'll be significantly less at risk if you stick with it: wash about once an hour, don't touch your face, don't touch what other people touch, and close your eyes if someone sneezes [droplets in the air - in your eye - and *wham* sicko] Oh, and make your whole household do the same things. It just takes one nasty bug to spoil the party for everyone. If someone does get sick -- send 'em to the Holiday Inn for the duration. Unless it's you -- then stay home and make 'em all take care of you. Plenty of foot rubs. And home made soup. Tomorrow -- how to wash your hands in a public washroom without touching anything at all!! Hint: paper towels. Lots of paper towels. Fresh ones at every step.
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