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Cyn Ann · Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 9 Location: Northern New York

I know some will think this is silly,but if it is true it may save someone from getting sick

My sister sent this to me

Another interesting fact in the fight to prevent contracting swine flu.... after reading this I will be using paper towels from now on.

Everyone in the cleaning industry has always been told that hand dryers in restrooms are not sanitary, they spread germs and bacteria around. I always thought that this just came from the paper companies because they are losing sales to the hand dryers.

A couple of years ago, I was working with a rep, and I noticed that after he washed his hands and saw that there were no paper towels only a hand dryer, he left the restroom with wet hands. I asked him about it. He said that hand dryers blow a lot of germs and bacteria around. He also told me to take a look under the hand dryer next time I was in a restroom. There is a filter underneath the hand dryer that is supposed to be cleaned on a weekly basis. I looked at one and it looked like it hadn't been cleaned in years. It had layers and layers of caked on gunk (disgusting). Since then I will not use hand dryers in restrooms. Now this is where the story gets really interesting. The schools and universities that have had the H1N1 (swine flue) outbreak this year are being told by the health department that they have to take out all of their hand dryers and replace them with towel dispensers because the hand dryers are spreading disease. Please pass this along so everyone knows not to use hand dryers.

I always carry extra tissues, my hands dry out fast enough in the winter without using a hand drier I don't use hand driers

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AvonsAngel · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 7:59 pm Post subject:

I don't use the hand dryers and carry my own soapless hand cleanser or baby style wipes are also good especially the ones with aloe.
I learned that in med school because we have to clean our hands in between patients (It is the law in USA hospitals) and can get very chapped hands in a short time.
My husband did the same basic hygiene at his hospital workplace.
Just make sure the cleaning liquid is labeled as antibacterial Wink

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manyfishes · Posted: Fri Nov 06, 2009 11:44 pm Post subject:

I used to work for a well known London law firm and had a conversation with one of the partners - who never used electric hand dryers - she had dealt with a number of cases to do with these spreading illnesses and shuddered at the idea of ever using one herself.
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windfola · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 8:15 am Post subject:

The best thing to do is just shake the water off your hands.

Saves electricity, paper and germs.
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AvonsAngel · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 9:43 am Post subject:

Always wash your hands upward to one inch above your wrist else
the area you just washed will be reinfected.
First lesson in med uni class Wink

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windfola · Posted: Sat Nov 07, 2009 10:01 am Post subject:

Yeah yeah whatever. I prefer the 'eat a pound of dirt before you die' model.

I very rarely get bugs of any sort, apart from a cold or occasional flu about once a year. I clean when I can no longer see the colour of the floor and I have fewer allergies than when I was a child.

Meanwhile kids are brought up in such a state of sterility that they have no natural immunity.

Let them live in their hermetically sealed boxes. I prefer the real world. Cool

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Cyn Ann · Joined: 07 Oct 2009 Posts: 9 Location: Northern New York

Moggy · Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:32 pm Post subject:

Yes if you are ill, always best to be careful about germs. Smile

Hope you are on the mend now. Smile

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