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How Do You Clean Up

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  • 03-22-2010, 04:12 AM
    jxk
    Re: How Do You Clean Up
    depends on the handling. if she's just chilling with me, i don't bother doing anything when i put her back. if i'm cleaning up after her or feeding her i'll wash up afterward (soap and water).

    i'm also of the persuasion that too much sanitation is horrible for your immune system (i.e. germs are good for you). there's a higher risk of obtaining salmonella poisoning from a lazy chef at a restaurant than a healthy snake.

    in contradiction to that, i wash my hands very frequently, but moreso because of my job than a fear of germs.
  • 03-29-2010, 03:55 PM
    jfreels
    Re: How Do You Clean Up
    If it's general handling, hand sanatizer. If I clean up poo/urates, then I wash hands with soap and water. If I exchange the bedding, soap and water.

    If I handle a mouse or rat and then handle another snake, soap & water then hand sanatizer and then dry my hands on a worn undershirt. Extreme, I know.
  • 03-29-2010, 04:36 PM
    NCtrickFL
    Re: How Do You Clean Up
    Quote:

    Originally Posted by Arsinoe View Post

    Be careful of hand sanitizers. Your body absorbs all those chemicals. NOT GOOD. Just soap and water is the best.

    Completely not true. Yes your body absorbs the chemicals but there is nothing wrong with that.


    -Also it does not require over a minute to work like someone above me said. Spreading it around your hands for 15 seconds is more effective than washing your hands for 15 seconds.

    -And you don't "risk immunity" by using hand sanitizer. Maybe if you scrubbed in it day and night so you were never exposed to germs but using it occasionally does nothing to hurt your immunity. The only potential negative from hand sanitizers is the speeding up of bacterial evolution into resistant strains.

    All this info backed up by http://blogs.webmd.com/health-ehome/...bout-hand.html
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