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[OT] Germ Rant
"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... I have had success for many years by refusing to shake hands with anyone during the cold and flu seasons. The less contact with other people the better. My late mom used to claim that you could get awful germs from supermarket trolley handles. I have no reason to disbelieve her. Everyone who has "anything" is touching them, so when I come home after shopping I scrub my hands with anti-bac stuff. Seems to work for me. Tweed |
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[OT] Germ Rant
On Tue, 08 Jan 2008 19:48:48 +0000, Christina Websell wrote:
"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... I have had success for many years by refusing to shake hands with anyone during the cold and flu seasons. The less contact with other people the better. My late mom used to claim that you could get awful germs from supermarket trolley handles. I have no reason to disbelieve her. Everyone who has "anything" is touching them, so when I come home after shopping I scrub my hands with anti-bac stuff. Seems to work for me. Tweed The local Albertson's store has a display of Clorox wipes right where the carts are kept. They have an open sample and invite patrons to use it on the cart handles. Good marketing! MLB |
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[OT] Germ Rant
---MIKE--- wrote:
I have had success for many years by refusing to shake hands with anyone during the cold and flu seasons. The less contact with other people the better. The only time I had flu, as oppossed to a bad cold, was 32 years ago. That was the one and only time I had a flu vacination. -- Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera) Cats leave pawprints on your heart http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk |
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"Christina Websell" wrote in message ... "CatNipped" wrote in message ... Maybe it's just because I'm fighting off this grunge that has taken possession of my lungs, sinuses and ears and won't vacate the premises no matter what I've done, but I've become very attuned to TV commercials advertising germ killing products (Lysol, Purell, etc.). I just watched three in a row. First of all, germs evolve just like any other animal or organism, they just do so millions of times faster since their reproductive cycles are so short. Purell just announced that it kills 99.9% of germs on your hands. Think about it, what happens to the other .1%? *THOSE* are the germs who have survived in the fight for survival of the fittest. They are the ones who have not only been allowed to live and breed but have been selected by *US* to pass their hardiness and ability to survive germ destroying substances on to the next "generation" of germs. When we get so compulsive, here in the US, with everything being "clean and sanitized", what we're really doing is helping to breed the next unstoppable pandemic! Is the risk really worth it just to avoid a few days or weeks of illness? I've always been of the philosophy that my children needed to eat a little dirt in order for their immune systems to learn how to handle the stress. They were never kept from animals because of a few sneezes or sniffles, their bottles were never sterilized, I never freaked out if they ate a grasshopper or picked up and ate some dropped food off the floor. The result is that they are the most remarkably healthy adults I have ever known in my lifetime. Neither have ever been hospitalized or even had an illness serious enough to send them to their beds for more than a day. Thankfully, they've learned these lessons well and are treating their own children the same way, but I'm afraid that in the face of the rest of our nation's germ-a-phobia this is just a drop in the ocean to counteract our selective breeding of germicide-resistant organisms. /rant I totally agree with you. Our immune systems cannot develop unless they are challenged. There were never all these children with asthma here before we were told to clean our houses so much with anti-bac stuff and make them pristine. All my life I have been confronted with "germs" from chicken poo, horse poo, dog poo, you name it. I ate earth and worms as a small child and my immune system is fine. The only allergy I still have is to crab - although I am going to try it soon and see what happens. I outgrew the strawberry allergy and the other shellfish too. I tried scallops for the first time a while back. They were yuummmy but the next day I was swollen up with hives. Tweed If you plan to try crab, after the reaction to scallops, please make sure you have an epi pen and an informed friend with you, OK? Jo |
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Adrian wrote:
The only time I had flu, as oppossed to a bad cold, was 32 years ago. That was the one and only time I had a flu vaccination. That may have been possible 32 years ago but not now. The flu vaccine contains a dead virus that is incapable of giving anyone the flu. I have had flu shots for the last 25 years and have never gotten sick from them. ---MIKE--- In the White Mountains of New Hampshire (44° 15' N - Elevation 1580') |
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"jofirey" wrote in message ... If you plan to try crab, after the reaction to scallops, please make sure you have an epi pen and an informed friend with you, OK? Aww, guess this puts it out then. I don't have an epi pen and I can't imagine that a friend would come round just to monitor me eating some crab! I can live without it. I just want to be able to eat it if I want to, if that makes sense. I might just try a tiny bit..I might have outgrown the allergy, I did with prawns and shrimps - but obviously not scallops. Perhaps because I had never had them before? Tweed |
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Christina Websell wrote:
"---MIKE---" wrote in message ... I have had success for many years by refusing to shake hands with anyone during the cold and flu seasons. The less contact with other people the better. My late mom used to claim that you could get awful germs from supermarket trolley handles. I have no reason to disbelieve her. Everyone who has "anything" is touching them, so when I come home after shopping I scrub my hands with anti-bac stuff. Seems to work for me. Tweed Don't know about over there but in most major grocery stores here there are "wipes" available where the carts/trollies are stored so you can wipe down the handle before using it. I also never put anything in that "child seat" in the front of the cart unless it's well wrapped in heavy plastic (such as the 6 packs of Ensure nutitional drink I bought for my dad, which I removed from the plastic wrap before storing in the refrigerator). There's nothing quite so off-putting as the idea of setting food items where a child with a leaking/loose diaper may have been sitting. Jill |
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Christina Websell wrote:
If you plan to try crab, after the reaction to scallops, please make sure you have an epi pen and an informed friend with you, OK? Aww, guess this puts it out then. I don't have an epi pen and I can't imagine that a friend would come round just to monitor me eating some crab! I can live without it. I just want to be able to eat it if I want to, if that makes sense. I might just try a tiny bit..I might have outgrown the allergy, I did with prawns and shrimps - but obviously not scallops. Perhaps because I had never had them before? Actually, I think allergies tend to get worse with *more* exposures, for the same reason that you become immune to a virus once you've had it. Your body is primed to respond the next time, because of the previous exposure. But in the case of allergies, the response is way over the top, and for some people, does much more harm than good. In fact, it often does no good at all, since the object your body is fighting isn't harmful to begin with. If you had hives in response to your first exposure to scallops, I would definitely avoid them from now on. Next time could trigger a much bigger reaction. As for the crab, maybe you could have a little picnic in the waiting area of your local emergency room? (I'm half kidding. It sounds silly, but on the other hand, if you really want to try, what safer place could you do it in, given that you don't have an epi pen or a friend who would watch you?) Where I live, I could go sit in the ER waiting room and no one would bat an eye at me. For all they know, I'm waiting to see a doctor, or I'm waiting for a friend to give them a ride home, or whatever. On the other hand, there are so many sick people in the ER, you'd probably end up catching something. Maybe you should just invite a friend to lunch and have crab for both of you. Joyce -- To send email to this address, remove the triple-X from my user name. |
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Adrian wrote:
---MIKE--- wrote: I have had success for many years by refusing to shake hands with anyone during the cold and flu seasons. The less contact with other people the better. The only time I had flu, as oppossed to a bad cold, was 32 years ago. That was the one and only time I had a flu vacination. The thing about flu vaccinations - there isn't a universal vaccine. Different types of flu crop up every year. There's no one vaccine that wards off all of them. Jill |
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CatNipped wrote:
I've always been of the philosophy that my children needed to eat a little dirt in order for their immune systems to learn how to handle the stress. Agreed! -- Victor M. Martinez Owned and operated by the Fantastic Seven (TM) Send your spam he Email me he |
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