Comments on: Tips for Staying Healthy This Winter http://pecuniarities.com/tips-for-staying-healthy-this-winter/934 'Tis not a crime to pinch a penny Tue, 16 Mar 2010 00:50:25 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Jenna http://pecuniarities.com/tips-for-staying-healthy-this-winter/934/comment-page-1#comment-2099 Jenna Tue, 18 Nov 2008 15:01:29 +0000 http://pecuniarities.com/?p=934#comment-2099 I don't know... I'll agree with you on almost everything - folk DON'T wash their hands nearly enough - but the overuse of sanitizers and rubbing alcohol just leads to stronger germs and worse problems down the line. You can be TOO clean, so clean in fact you get sick all the time. I've heard my own doctor rant about this enough (giggling the whole time as it was directed at my well meaning but completly germ phobic SIL - who is ALWAYS fighting a bug) to be pretty learing of dousing myself and my family if sanitizer. Yeah - if you're rummaging around in people's intestines, cleaning up waste on a daily basis, or have a severly compromised immune system - I can see the need. But if you are a relativly sturdy adult just wandering along life's pathways? Just use soap - and maybe take an extra 30 seconds in the scrubbing. I don’t know… I’ll agree with you on almost everything – folk DON’T wash their hands nearly enough – but the overuse of sanitizers and rubbing alcohol just leads to stronger germs and worse problems down the line. You can be TOO clean, so clean in fact you get sick all the time. I’ve heard my own doctor rant about this enough (giggling the whole time as it was directed at my well meaning but completly germ phobic SIL – who is ALWAYS fighting a bug) to be pretty learing of dousing myself and my family if sanitizer.

Yeah – if you’re rummaging around in people’s intestines, cleaning up waste on a daily basis, or have a severly compromised immune system – I can see the need.

But if you are a relativly sturdy adult just wandering along life’s pathways? Just use soap – and maybe take an extra 30 seconds in the scrubbing.

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