I've been doing the obsessive hand washing for a while now, started when a relative entered a care facility. I have not gotten any cold or flu since I began doing it except for two years ago after a flight from Hawaii. Two days after the flight I was sick.
The big Island only had one case as I left and I figured I should be good to go, but for some reason my nasal passages would run then stop, as I was sitting at the gate and I wanted to sneeze so bad but was just able to fight it off.?ÿ
Before getting on the plane I felt fine and it wasn't till today it started up again. I couldn't figure it out till today at lunch. We have my FIL staying with us as he can no longer stay alone. I'm obsessively washing again and it finally dawned on me that I'm slightly allergic to the sanitizer. Can't use it on my face. Hands OK, face not OK. What an odd time to be alive.?ÿ
My hands have gotten dried out lately, I have a product that I really like to remedy that and other skin issues, it is called Skin Food and is made by Weleda.
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I endorse it, and their deodorant and foot balm also.
Back in the fish cleaning days the only thing that worked for dried out skin was Corn Huskers Lotion. I presume it is still available.?ÿ But I am scared to go out in search of it.?ÿ Not really.?ÿ
I've noticed that the back of my right hand is particularly tender.?ÿ Turns out that I grab the paper towel with my left hand and wipe the back of my right hand first. The towel is dry at this point and more abrasive me thinks. I am going to have to changing my ways or get softer towels.?ÿ ?ÿ
"Corn Huskers Lotion" - yea, although Bag Balm is a close second...
I've been refilling those little pumper bottles with 1/5 Dawn and 4/5 water for years to use in the bathrooms and keeping a pumper of hand sanitizer there.
My goto skin lotion is Gold Bond Ultimate Men's Essentials. When I have a lot of briar scratches and such I use their Medicated Lotion.
For my clothes, I still use Cheer he plus 10?ñ ounces of Hydrogen Peroxide per wash.
The spout busted on the water bottle for my truck so it has been splashing around in the bed, gotta replace that.
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Definitely not a germophobe but probably wash my hands more often than most.?ÿ Been that way for decades.
While working today I did my best to stay at least six to ten feet from other people due to the current scare.?ÿ Had my co-worker travel in his vehicle separate from mine.?ÿ But, then we ended up inhaling the stench from rotten groundwater oozing out of a large C&D landfill due to the persistent state of saturation that it has endured for the past 18 months of more.?ÿ Gag a maggot stench............for two hours.?ÿ Later,?ÿ I had one bare hand in contact with the carcass of a waterlogged deceased bovine that had been in that condition for more than three weeks while finally getting a tow chain around one partly submerged hind leg, then rinsed off in the flowing water about thirty feet from said critter.?ÿ Yes, it had to get past the critter to get where I was rinsing.?ÿ So, not a germophobe, per se.
