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How Do You Clean Up
How do you clean up after attending to your snakes? Do you use soap and water, a bleach solution, hand sanitizer or something else?
Let me know!
Jim Smith
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Are you referring to cleaning snake tubs or your own hands?
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Originally Posted by Kaorte
Are you referring to cleaning snake tubs or your own hands?
Your hands
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I don't make an issue of washing up just cause I handled Alexander. If eat yes, but I have so many types of pets, I don't spaz about a germ or two.....I don't tend to get sick very often either. You can't sanitize your body to oblivion. Your body is made up of millions of bacteria. When you mess with that...That is when you get into trouble.
Be careful of hand sanitizers. Your body absorbs all those chemicals. NOT GOOD. Just soap and water is the best.
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Soap and water.
*If I am out at a show and don't have quick access to soap and water, then I use the hand sanitizers (although I know they are practically worthless in the long run).
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Soap and water--if I can't get to the sink immediately, then hand sanitizer.
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Antibacterial Soap and warm water :)
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If I'm just handling them and checking on them, I dont usually wash afterwards.
If I'm cleaning up poo and pee, I will wash with a foaming antibacterial hand soap and water.
I dont like using hand sanitizer.
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I wash with antibacterial hand soap and hot water after cleaning or handling the snakes.
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Originally Posted by python1024
i wash with antibacterial hand soap and hot water after cleaning or handling the snakes.
ditto:d
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Soap and water. Especially after I clean the rat racks.
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I use soap and water inbetween handling different snakes and after cleaning cages, but for two different reasons. I'm not worried about getting sick from the snakes, but I don't want them to pass anything between each other. For the cleaning poo it's for my own health, since I clean with my bare hands and paper towel.
I try to never use hand sanitizer unless its critical...you use that stuff and you kill all the good germs along with the bad, and therefore risk immunity.
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If I may say so, this has turned into a great thread quickly. Not only did I get the answers to my question, but I got the reasoning behind the answers. This is great stuff.
Jim Smith
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If I'm just handling my snake I usually don't wash up after. That's like washing your hands after every time you pet your dog.
After cleaning the enclosure or feeding I use soap and water. I used hand sanitizer religiously a few years back and learned how that stuff can mess your hands up.
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Originally Posted by WingedWolfPsion
Soap and water--if I can't get to the sink immediately, then hand sanitizer.
agree with this^^^
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If i'm cleaning the tubs after a poop then i wash with soap and water.
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Soap and water for the most part. Sometimes hand sanitizer, I keep the hand sanitizer next to the rack.
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Soap and water and/or hand sanatizer. Although having read some of the comments in this thread, I may scrap the hand sanatizer!
@ the people who have said they DON'T clean up after handling, I'm far from an expert, but I understand they can carry salmonella. Is this true or not, cause (call me a wimp) there's no way I'm risking that for the sake of washing my hands! :O
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Originally Posted by severe_bomber
Soap and water and/or hand sanatizer. Although having read some of the comments in this thread, I may scrap the hand sanatizer!
@ the people who have said they DON'T clean up after handling, I'm far from an expert, but I understand they can carry salmonella. Is this true or not, cause (call me a wimp) there's no way I'm risking that for the sake of washing my hands! :O
They can be carriers, which is why I always wash my hands with soap and warm water. If I'm checking multiple snakes I use sanitizer in between until I finish, then do a wash and put cream on my hands to replace moisture.
To those who do nothing...to each their own, but I'm not much of a risk taker.:oops:
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Soap and water, before and after. That includes all animals I come in contact with(yes, dogs too).
Fun tidbit about hand sanitizer - it only is fully effective if you have it on your hands (and wet) for somewhere between 1:30 - 2:00 minutes.
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Alcohol sanitizer, like they use in hospitals. Then hot water and soap.
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Crap, I didn't read your second post and I thought you were talking about tanks/tubs. So... Yeah, I'm that lonely 1 bleach solution, lol. (If it's not too much to ask, could a mod change that?)
Typically I use my hand sanitizer, but I'll normally wash my hands with soap and water before I touch anything from the kitchen.
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Hand Sanitizer then Soap and Water.
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soap and water for everything I will bleach hte tub once a month but weekly and my hands,arms and face since one snakes things my glasses are a place to perch just soap and water, if at a show and I handle or even touch anything Alcohol sanitizer.
was gongi ot say a bottle of jack but I rather drink it. lol
most thetime i wait until I am either down with the reptiels/rodents for th day and get a bath but ifI eat befoer then I wach them real good. I am more liky to pick up a germ or a cold being outside doing something than from my snakes.
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Mostly I wipe the glass down with plain water. If it's something nasty, I'll use a dilute vinegar solution.
Only if it's really bad and smelly will I use a weak bleach solution, then rinse very well.
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Originally Posted by rockhardchick666
Soap and water, before and after. That includes all animals I come in contact with(yes, dogs too).
Wow! That sounds crazy to me, but I guess that's because my dog is always by my side when I'm home. If I washed my hands after every time I came in contact with him I'd be washing my hands every few minutes!
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Ah, most of my dogs were outside all the time as hunting dogs. God knows what they carry.
Now the pitbulls my sister rescues from ontario are all indoor dogs who like to cuddle, so in that scenario I just make it a habit to wash them when I see a sink and not touch my face till then.
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I just use soap and water after handling my snake. I often wash my hands before because I work with a lot of chemicals and am a bit paranoid about passing them along. The enclosure I use a steamer and the cage furniture I wash with a vanodine soap. It is an iodine based soap usually used for birds but hey if it work for birds snakes should be no problem. I then carefully rinse the cage furniture and wipe out the cage.
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I USE HAND SOAP & WATER, I ONLY USE SANITIZER WHEN I CANT GET TO A SINK :gj:
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Sanitizer if I can't get to a sink and at shows, soap and water any other time. Generally I'm not too careful at all, but I've got a few animals in quarantine, and I don't want to pass anything between snakes. If I'm not handling the snakes, (i.e. working at a farm I volunteer at or playing with my dogs) I'm not careful at all. If my hands feel dirty, I'll wash them, but most of the time I forget. And haven't gotten sick yet, thank goodness :D
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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.
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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.
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Originally Posted by Arsinoe
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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