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amother

OP ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 8:37 am

Lots of sickness is going around
Flu
Strep
Rsv
Rhinovirus
Etc.

And they are not fun!

amother

Snowdrop ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 8:44 am

It's the season. Hand washing won't help much if we're around many people.

amother

Starflower

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:11 am

You really think handwashing will prevent illness????
Im not promoting durt and grub......

amother

↑ OP ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:20 am

Stomach bug too.

I think handwashing can be a bit of hishtadlus

amother

Lilac ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:22 am

Absolutely handwashing helps prevent illness. Such a basic measure.

Bnei Berak 10 ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:25 am

amother Snowdrop wrote:

It's the season. Hand washing won't help much if we're around many people.

Incorrect

amother

Poinsettia ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:25 am

amother Starflower wrote:

You really think handwashing will prevent illness????
Im not promoting durt and grub......

Of course it helps. I can't imagine how this is even a question.

amother

Catmint ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:27 am

amother Starflower wrote:

You really think handwashing will prevent illness????
Im not promoting durt and grub......

You obviously don't work in the medical field. It's been proved more than once.
Basic knowledge

amother

↑ OP

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:29 am

Thank you to the last4 posters. The first2 made me feel really dumb.

oneofakind

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:37 am

And keep nails short and clean. Hand washing not as effective with overgrown, dirty nails.

amother

Rainbow ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:54 am

And please provide clean dry separate towels for
everyone after hand washing before meals/ and in the bathroom at your house

amother

Ecru

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:59 am

amother Starflower wrote:

You really think handwashing will prevent illness????
Im not promoting durt and grub......

It’s concerning that so many imamothers don’t understand basic germ theory, which is elementary school level science. I hope they are not the same ones giving medical advice on other threads.

singleagain

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 10:59 am

A visual for their who need

amother

↑ Poinsettia ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 11:01 am

amother Rainbow wrote:

And please provide clean dry separate towels for
everyone after hand washing before meals/ and in the bathroom at your house

I've never heard of anyone doing this. If your hands are clean, there's nothing problematic with more than one person using a hand towel. If the towel is sitting wet for a long time it will start to breed germs but for one seuda, not an issue. In the bathroom, change hand towels on a regular basis but doesn't have to be after a single use.

amother

Peach ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 11:04 am

Bnei Berak 10 wrote:

Incorrect

I’m not great with enforcing washing, kids come home before me, B”H kids have been healthy still through this season so far. I don’t think it’s correlated

amother

↑ Snowdrop

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 11:08 am

amother OP wrote:

Thank you to the last4 posters. The first2 made me feel really dumb.

It's not my intention to make you feel dumb, but, Kids catching a cold or common illness in the winter, is just inevitable.
We are very on top of hand washing. We have purrel bottles around the house. My kids all wash their hands with soap as soon as they walk in. Hand towels get changed very frequently or we use paper towel to wipe hands. They take vitamins.
But my kids still get common winter illness. Because they go to school & are surrounded by other kids & schools are full of germs. So getting a cold/virus is basically inevitable, regardless of how good hygiene they have.
(Maybe my kids get sick because they're too clean & their immune system it too weak to handle a sniffle?? Who knows?
But despite our strict hygiene standards, I'm still not convinced that proper hand washing prevents illness.)

amother

Aster ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 11:13 am

amother Snowdrop wrote:

(Maybe my kids get sick because they're too clean & their immune system it too weak to handle a sniffle?? Who knows?
But despite our strict hygiene standards, I'm still not convinced that proper hand washing prevents illness.)

Dr. Ignatz Semmelweis' discovery that doctors handwashing or not was the #1 factor in women childbirth mortality rates was groundbreaking back in his day. It's really a fascinating piece of history.

amother

↑ Poinsettia ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 11:25 am

amother Aster wrote:

Dr. Ignatz Semmelweis' discovery that doctors handwashing or not was the #1 factor in women childbirth mortality rates was groundbreaking back in his day. It's really a fascinating piece of history.

I'm not sure how that's even relevant to the conversation. There are so many things affecting the mortality rates of women in childbirth that have nothing to donwith germ transmission. This has zero to do with how hand washing affects the transmission of viruses and bacteria.

amother

↑ Lilac

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 11:32 am

Of course you can still get sick with handwashing. There are airborne illnesses that you breathe in and can’t wash away. However, handwashing is still a very important part of normal hygiene and germ prevention.

amother

↑ Aster ↓

Mon, Jan 06 2025, 11:39 am

amother Poinsettia wrote:

Sure it does. Doctors were infecting the women with bacteria when they assisted them during birth because they were transmitting bacteria from other patients that were directly on their hands. In those days, they'd just wipe off any obvious blood or gook on their doctors coats, they wouldn't wash it off, and certainly no washing of microscopic unseen germs on their hands, before handling patients. When he instituted a month or two of handwashing with a basic soap the childbirth mortality rates in his hospital went down to almost none. When they stopped the requirement (because the other doctors were annoyed about it) it rebounded back to the previous rates. The women would get what they called childbed fever, have high temperatures, and die within a couple of days immediately post birth.

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