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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 2:59:33 GMT
I was feeling healthy as a horse until 48 hours after visiting my Dr. for an annual physical. Came down with the worst head,and chest cold I've had in years.Has knocked me for a loop and I'm sure that I contracted it while in that f'n office or waiting room.
No fever or GI distress thank goodness.
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Post by fumobici on Nov 16, 2009 7:33:10 GMT
Doctors offices and hospitals are Petri dishes of pathogens. Unsurprisingly.
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Post by happytraveller on Nov 16, 2009 9:44:33 GMT
Poor you ! I hope you feel better soon!
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 14:26:44 GMT
Doctors offices and hospitals are Petri dishes of pathogens. Unsurprisingly. Well aware. Tried to avoid it and thought I had taken every precaution. Swacked anyway.  Thanks,HT.  |
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Post by Deleted on Nov 16, 2009 17:36:28 GMT
I feel immune to just about everything after rubbing up against everybody in the subway.
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Post by gertie on Aug 29, 2010 22:55:24 GMT
Years ago I read the place people most contract illnesses is wherever many people touch things, so doorknobs and light switches in offices should be cleaned with disinfectant whenever bugs start passing around schools or offices. The next time everyone in our office started passing around illness, I tried this out. It was a large office, and we had the usual winter colds, coughs, and finally a stomach ailment making the rounds. I was laughed at when I went round cleaning the light switches, doorknobs, buttons on the coffee pot and copier, and the like with hospital disinfectant every morn, but after a week everyone started getting well. It was quite amusing to see their opinion turn around as their health turned around.
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Post by joanne28 on Sept 1, 2010 0:47:47 GMT
Gertie, since so many diseases are passed around by hand contact, I'm not surprised that your cleaning doorknobs etc worked.
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Post by bixaorellana on Sept 1, 2010 15:51:51 GMT
Cleaning the surfaces handled by many people will work to ward off illness because it is in effect doing something that people should be doing for themselves. A most effective, simple way to stay well is to wash your hands. I am a frequent hand washer and generally stay healthy. Caught in the act of random hand washing one day at work, I wound up talking about it with someone else. He said that he'd worked as a hospital orderly when young and that frequent hand washing was drilled into the trainees, a habit he never lost and as a result hardly ever caught whatever was going around.
Since sometimes it's impossible to wash your hands, the other habit to cultivate is to avoid touching your face. Eyes, nose, and mouth all have mucous membranes which are conduits for disease. Don't poison your own food, either. Picking up a brownie with the hand you used to open the door to the coffee house is a way to ingest cold germs along with the chocolate treat.
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