Reply to: Hygiene

[EternalOptimist]

You get threadworm by touching a surface someone with threadworm touched. The obvious places are anywhere lots of people share space... school, work, pub, bus/train. Since toilets are a prime place for direct transfer bum->finger->surface, they are the most likely source... could be any communal toilet though.

I was noshing a bird once, saw this little white wiggly worm on her bum-hole.

Must be one of the only known antidotes to viagra

[d000hg]

Or maybe it was nothing to do with bogs. Why is everyone convinced the only possible source of any illness is the bogs at clientco?

You get threadworm by touching a surface someone with threadworm touched. The obvious places are anywhere lots of people share space... school, work, pub, bus/train. Since toilets are a prime place for direct transfer bum->finger->surface, they are the most likely source... could be any communal toilet though.

[BrilloPad]

If you cant use the hand wash then get out of the hospital.

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cybertory

[The Lone Gunman]

Oh Crap!!!!!!!!!!!!! I am about to agree with CyberTwat.

Firstly, I know it is only a couple of people and it is media hype (it was first reported about MRSA and now repeated with Swine Flu).

For once (for me) this is not an anti Islam rant either. Islam does not ban the touching of alcohol, only the using of stimulants, but some devout muslims will not touch it at all because consumption is prohibited. That is their choice to make.

When there are rules, there are rules. They are there for a reason.
If you can not comply with the rules for whatever reason then you should not be in the place, or doing the thing where the rules apply.

If you cant use the hand wash then get out of the hospital.

[snaw]

The fact is that once you start allowing exceptions it lowers the standards of hygiene for all of us. If somebody enters a hospital, for instance, and refuses to abide by regulations they should be ejected immediately. You only need one person to start an epidemic, but of course you have no hope of being able to understand that.

Lick the chutney spoon.

2 put it back in

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Please point to the part of the article where it mentions hospitals.

and by 'some' you mean two, both of whom were given non-alcohol based lotions.

No point asking him for facts or logic or even the truth in support of his inane rantings - he'll just say "me no understand".

[Cyberman]

Please point to the part of the article where it mentions hospitals.

and by 'some' you mean two, both of whom were given non-alcohol based lotions.

The fact is that once you start allowing exceptions it lowers the standards of hygiene for all of us. If somebody enters a hospital, for instance, and refuses to abide by regulations they should be ejected immediately. You only need one person to start an epidemic, but of course you have no hope of being able to understand that.

[Pondlife]

The problem is that some muslims are thus refusing to abide by hygiene regulations, which will have knock-on effects for us all. Not all hospitals will have non-alcohol based hand lotions and I would not expect them to, so if they refuse to use the lotions it will help to propagate MRSA germs etc.

It's just the thin end of an unhygienic wedge.

Please point to the part of the article where it mentions hospitals.

and by 'some' you mean two, both of whom were given non-alcohol based lotions.

[xoggoth]

Well, it could have been some bloke licking the chutney spoon at an Indian restaurant I suppose.

[GreenerGrass]

Or maybe it was nothing to do with bogs. Why is everyone convinced the only possible source of any illness is the bogs at clientco?

Or immigrants on the train. Who have poo on their hands.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

Probably got it from a bog door due to some grubby non-hand-washing sod at work. Not sure I go as far as expat with the tissue but I do now always open bog doors right at the very top with the last joint of my little finger.

Or maybe it was nothing to do with bogs. Why is everyone convinced the only possible source of any illness is the bogs at clientco?

[expat]

The last contract I was on I managed to get threadworm although usually that's something you only catch when you have small kids. Probably got it from a bog door due to some grubby non-hand-washing sod at work. Not sure I go as far as expat with the tissue but I do now always open bog doors right at the very top with the last joint of my little finger.

Well, the toilets at that site had a paper towel dispenser and a bin right at the door, so it was easy to use a towel to open the door, dump the towel, and shimmy out before the door closed.

I no longer have the office toilet problem for the same reason as I no longer have the IR35 problem or the 40% tax problem or the boring commute problem etc etc.

[xoggoth]

The last contract I was on I managed to get threadworm although usually that's something you only catch when you have small kids. Probably got it from a bog door due to some grubby non-hand-washing sod at work. Not sure I go as far as expat with the tissue but I do now always open bog doors right at the very top with the last joint of my little finger.

[Peoplesoft bloke]

I could do with a new bookcase

[Cyberman]

So what's the problem?

The problem is that some muslims are thus refusing to abide by hygiene regulations, which will have knock-on effects for us all. Not all hospitals will have non-alcohol based hand lotions and I would not expect them to, so if they refuse to use the lotions it will help to propagate MRSA germs etc.

It's just the thin end of an unhygienic wedge.