Welcome to City-Data.com Forum!
U.S. CitiesCity-Data Forum Index
Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Health and Wellness
 [Register]
Please register to participate in our discussions with 2 million other members - it's free and quick! Some forums can only be seen by registered members. After you create your account, you'll be able to customize options and access all our 15,000 new posts/day with fewer ads.
View detailed profile (Advanced) or search
site with Google Custom Search

Search Forums  (Advanced)
 
Old 05-08-2010, 09:35 PM
 
67 posts, read 164,880 times
Reputation: 127

Advertisements

I am starting to believe as a culture, we use hand sanitizer, Germ X, etc. Waaaaay too much. What ever happened to soap and water? After awhile all this sanitizing will make the germs stronger or resistant to it. People have lived on the this earth for centuries before hand sanitizers, i think we still can. I understand if you want to squirt some onto your hands after your done shopping and are about to eat, what I'm talking about are the people that go over board, and disinfect their houses every month.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message

 
Old 05-08-2010, 11:31 PM
 
Location: A Thousand Miles From Nowhere
427 posts, read 546,654 times
Reputation: 344
Yeah, I'm with ya on this one brother! Oh and, by the way, I'm not liking what you did to Sandra at all.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 05-08-2010, 11:50 PM
 
Location: Mostly in my head
19,855 posts, read 65,574,293 times
Reputation: 19374
I firmly believe that a little dirt keeps your immune system on its toes.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 05-09-2010, 03:20 AM
 
Location: Hawaii
1,689 posts, read 4,284,627 times
Reputation: 3107
Antibacterial Hand Sanitizer: Hype or Health? | Mark's Daily Apple

This is a pretty good article and the comments are insightful.

Also hot water vs cold which is more effective with hand washing; it's either one.

Most everything I've read supports that effective hand washing with soap is just as good as using the sanitizers.

Think about all the things we now put anti-bacterial something in.

Our bodies do need a certain amount of dirt so we can establish responses to guard against it. Our immune systems need to build up logical defenses against the bugs.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 05-09-2010, 08:59 AM
 
1,882 posts, read 4,604,573 times
Reputation: 2683
I agree 100%. Soap is just a degreaser, what kills germs is the friction/heat of washing, so I've read.

But, easy for me to say, I farm and clean hands only happen at night.

I think people are so afraid of getting sick or dying that they don't live. SIL and her family are like that, they spend more time at the dr in a month than we do all yr, no boubt.

How did we(us as a nation) get this way? The media who likes to prey on peoples fears?
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 05-09-2010, 05:11 PM
 
14,250 posts, read 17,844,061 times
Reputation: 13807
Agree with all the above comments. This sanitizing mania will be damaging to our overall health in the long-run.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 05-09-2010, 05:54 PM
 
Location: Saint Petersburg, FL
1,881 posts, read 3,589,159 times
Reputation: 16546
I agree, too. It aids the growth of superbugs as well as not doing our immune systems a favor.

I'm all for washing hands, just not with antibacterial soap.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
 
Old 05-09-2010, 06:03 PM
 
4,379 posts, read 5,361,544 times
Reputation: 1612
it just makes the superbug more likely.
Reply With Quote Quick reply to this message
Please register to post and access all features of our very popular forum. It is free and quick. Over $68,000 in prizes has already been given out to active posters on our forum. Additional giveaways are planned.

Detailed information about all U.S. cities, counties, and zip codes on our site: City-data.com.


Reply
Please update this thread with any new information or opinions. This open thread is still read by thousands of people, so we encourage all additional points of view.

Quick Reply
Message:


Over $104,000 in prizes was already given out to active posters on our forum and additional giveaways are planned!

Go Back   City-Data Forum > General Forums > Health and Wellness
Similar Threads

All times are GMT -6.

© 2005-2024, Advameg, Inc. · Please obey Forum Rules · Terms of Use and Privacy Policy · Bug Bounty

City-Data.com - Contact Us - Archive 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37 - Top