Hygiene protocols

[Lightspeed]

(27 July 2012, 18:28)bigpaul Wrote:

(27 July 2012, 17:51)Lightspeed Wrote:

(27 July 2012, 16:42)Skvez Wrote: Hygiene is important and with the increased stress and probably reduced nutrition of a post-event our immune systems will suffer but this reads like you're afraid you're going to die if you get a speck of dirt on you.

Cleaning the home to the standard of an operating theatre!? You've got to be joking, who has the time or resources to do this today before TSHTF let alone after? The golden horde will be able to find you from the smell of bleach

Skvez has got a point here, and its maybe something we should consider in our prepping.

Too much cleaning is actually bad for you.

On a trans African rally I took part in many years ago, there was one car that adopted a stringent hygene regime. Hands washed all the time, all fruit completely scrubbed before being eaten, only taking cooked meals at recognizably western managed hotels etc..... And who do you think had the shits the whole time.....of couse it was these guys.

As the saying goed, you gotta eat a bit of shit before you die..... maybe we should be prepping our personal immune systems to deal with the poor hygene and sanitation that will prevail after an event?

i think its"eat a peck of DIRT before you die" i was recently VERY ill with "the trots" , it happened very quickly and lasted for 12 days( almost non stop) and i dont think it was because i was particularly dirty or because i didnt wash my hands enough, it was just that this particular "bug" was in this area(about an 8 mile radius of where i live) and lots of people were affected, because it was a virus anti biotics were not prescribed and i just had to wait it out until it had run its course.

I stand corrected TL.

Hope you're OK now. Viral infections are a huge risk, especially to us when we are run down and isolated. Then again, isolation wil educe the transmision to some extent.

LS