Wash your hands, soap and hot water as you leave any institutional facility (school, prison, hospital, gym). Keep an alcohol hand cleaner in the car, wash again. Wash when you get home before you play with the kids. Don’t take pens and stuff into the institution if you can help it; the staph can get on that and you can carry it out of the place. Staph will live for a few days on stuff. Take off your clothes and don’t wear them again until they are washed. Make sure any cuts are bandaged if you are going into an institution. Keep your nails short so you don’t touch it, scratch yourself a little wound, and get the infection.
Lots of staph in schools, prisons, nursing homes.
And don’t forget to wash after being in the pharmacy, picking up meds. We share pens, etc. there.
Great tips, thanks! Copied it.
Howard, is that you?
What’s the deal with people I see wearing “scrubs” when they go shopping after/before work or whatever? Seems to me they are either picking up germs and taking them to their job, or the reverse, or both. I don’t like it, because it seems to show an ignorance that I would not expect from health care workers. I suppose I’m expecting too much these days.
Wrong.
Do NOT use HOT water to wash your hands. Use WARM water. Hot water eliminates the oils that your skin secretes that protect your skin from bacteria. Use comfortably warm water.
Make lots of suds, people! And clean underneath all those flashy rings, too! Bacteria love hiding under those flashy rings! 15 seconds of good, foamy suds! Rinse completely! Dry completely! Bacteria love moisture. If your hands are still moist, the next thing you touch will ruin all that hard work.