How many times do you wash your hands?

[Satan's Goldfish]

I agree with jcardona
Most bacteria are our friends, people! Hand sanitizer as part of day-to-day routine is EVIL and literally one of the biggest threats to humanities health, developing super-bugs that can't be stopped by antibiotics. Better to risk getting a little cold, than to contribute to creating the super-bug of science-fiction, that wipes out half the population

Personally, I say, eat food off the floor if there's nothing stuck to it, only bother washing after taking a leak if, (in the words of George Carlin) "YOU GET PEE ON YOURSELF!", number-twos are a given, though, and wash hands before eating or cooking, especially after being in public places where there's a very high chance of picking up some grotty person's butt-germs.

With that lifestyle, I have the immune system of a GOD!
Plus, with being careful not to touch my eyes and nose (one of the best ways to transmit cold-and-flu-causing bacteria) I pretty much never get sick. I haven't puked (not counting drinking too much) in over five years, and the last time was food-poisoning from bad chinese takeaways.

Y'all should try it! (not the chinese takeaways, giving up the germ-phobia)

Agree.

I have an outdoor country lifestyle, mud is a way of life, i get colds occasionally but they never normally stop me from carrying on. Compared to people i know that live in the city and a re clean freaks that feel the country is that annoying big place to drive through really quickly to get to the next city, they suffer colds and flu more than me and are more prone to asthma.

Trying to work out how often i wash my hands hurts my head after going to the loo obviously, and normally after i do anything with the fish (as i've given myself the sh*ts a couple of times that way!) so 5 might cover it. (what's wrong with getting a little engine oil on a sandwich from time to time?)

 

[navygirl76]

its not the soap that matters-its the action of the scrubbing off of the germs-you are moving them to your fingertips to be washed off. in nursing they recommend 15-20 seconds of continuous rubbing-around the wrist, between the fingers, around rings.

alcohol gel is ok if the hands are NOT visibly soiled- but handwashing itself is the best way to remove germs. i rarely get sick, and i have never had to take antibiotics-as THEY create resistant forms of bacteria-some ppl tend to abuse antibiotic use and they are the ones that get deathly ill.