Polly, if I get a paper cut, or scratch even, I scrub with soap and water for a couple minutes, and then cover the broken skin with a bandaid and triple antibiotic ointment. The doc at Urgent Care gave me a tube of ointment that is one of the very few that will stop MRSA - and he also told me, that if I’m ever in a situation where I think I have been exposed to something serious (like H1N1), to use it on a q-tip in the base of my nostrils along with salt water.
I have been washing my nostrils out with salt water for a couple months, now - and so far - so good.
Wow Yorkie! Is the tube of ointment a prescription? Sounds like something we should all have on hand.
I have never heard of swabbing our nostrils out with salt water!
Signing off of the computer and heading for bed in Los Angeles! Rain is due tomorrow, finally!!!!!
My daughter does this salt water wash and it really helps with her chronic sinus problems.
Looking forward to snow pictures.