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Could these be the headlines ten or twenty years from now?
Due to the dreaded MRSA super bug, we in the UK are obliged to wash our hands with a special ‘Bacteria-killing’ hand cleanser every time we go through various points within the hospitals. A good idea probably, though I personally think it’s all just ‘politics’.
But what about doctors and nurses? They are obliged to do it all of the time as they move around the hospital, meaning they probably ‘cleanse’ their hands in excess of one hundred times a day with this ‘solution’.
Now I use the painkiller gel ‘Ibuleve’ fairly regularly. I use it because I can’t take ‘Ibupofren’ internally due to an allergic reaction. It’s very similar in consistency to the hand cleanser gel we’re all obliged to use throughout our hospitals.
the reason ‘Ibuleve’ works so well and so fast is because our skin absorbs it very fast and it gets directly to the pain in record time. The worry with doctors and nurses is that if they are constantly cleansing their hands through the day, just how much of the solution is being ‘absorbed’ by their skin and entering the blood stream, travelling through all of the major organs on a regular basis?
If the cleanser is meant to ‘kill’ bacteria, what might it be ‘killing’ as it passes through these people’s body in such a concentrated amount? Has anyone even given it a thought? Or do we have to learn from our mistakes like the millions of people who have had their exposure to asbestos come back to haunt them years down the line?
I only mention Doctors and Nurses because on my regular visits to hospital I see them constantly ‘cleansing’. The cleaners and orderly’s appear to be exempt from this practice.
One old chap pulled a couple of cleaners up as they just walked straight through one of the ‘cleansing’ points. They just turned and laughed at him. Hmmmmmm?
Pete Moring.
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