Most care homes, (should)have at least one hand dispenser pump, usually in the dirtiest place in the building. No not the toilet, that at least gets cleaned once a day.
No, I'm talking about the signing in book.
For you see, even diarrhoea can mean death for the elderly or ill.
For me, it's compulsive now. I see infection control stations, I have to use them. And it's not just because the alcohol clears my sinuses.
No, it's the fact that in all my life, I have never caught a vomiting bug, and though one time I had food poisoning from un-cooked sausage(a word I still struggle to spell) I never vomited. Begged for death, and felt so cold I nearly set myself alight cosy-ing up with a halogen lamp heater. But never sick.
Hospitals are the worst for me, there are so many pumps, so many infection control stations. I even cleanse my hands as per the twelve, yes 12, stage NHS prescribed hand cleaning process. OCD springs to mind.
But when you have to realise I come into contact with every bodily fluid and excretion you could imagine on a daily basis; with little more then out of use by date latex or vinyl gloves.
Cross contamination and MRSA are always sitting around in the back of my mind, metaphorically speaking.
The side effect of this is in fact less obvious, no not a weakened immune system. After a year or so, i hardly get ill, and my allergies have subsided. No doubt busy with a constant barrage of dirt
It is surprisingly, dermatitis. The skin on my hands, especially the corners of my fingers are nearly always split and dry. The answer came from my mother in law, a product from avon no less, it's called- Silicon Glove. And basically forms a barrier from which not alcohol can sting all the cuts and cracks in my dry mottled hands.
I guess I could of posted that I got some hand cream because my skin was dry. But that would hardly fill a page...
It can be purchased here...
http://reviews.avon.com/5588/33981/reviews.htm
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