Re: Tackling hospital epidemics

In article <NrqdnS2gKfCQiQrfRVn-2Q@xxxxxxx>, <jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>In article <1117196363.160378.92180@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
> "tadchem" <thomas.davidson@xxxxxxx> wrote:
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>>jmfbahciv@xxxxxxx wrote:
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>>> Another way is to figure out how to make everybody wash their hands.
>>> Another way is bar visitors and employees who are ill.
>>> Another way is to figure out how to make nurses use sterile water
>>> rather than tap water.
>>>
>>> I have a whole list of items based on personal observation.
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>>To which I would like to add several topical inorganic antibiotics
>>which can kill germs without harming human tissues:
>>3% hydrogen peroxide
>>chlorine bleach
>>UV-A radiation
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>I used vinegar. Bleach is caustic. I couldn't use that

When I was cleaning a food court we put a little sodium hypochlorite, I
think it was, in the water. And I could put my dry hand in it and rub my
fingers together, and feel the friction of clean skin against skin give
way to a slippery film. Caustic, indeed.

>crap called anti-bacterial soap because it cut my skin.

Ivory has the only liquid hand soap I've been able to find that doesn't
have triclosan in it. Since childhood I've never used antibacterial soaps
(I don't think they had them in those days), and I was seldom ill. And
I've read of recent research that shows there's no advantage to it for
every day use. What's important is simply that you wash hands, which
physically removes bacteria. And still they're putting triclosan in
cosmetics, toothpaste, and everything else, as if they think evolution is
a myth.
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"A nice adaptation of conditions will make almost any hypothesis agree
with the phenomena. This will please the imagination but does not advance
our knowledge." -- J. Black, 1803.
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