Don't Panic Mr Mainwaring - The Antibiotics don't work.

[River Song]

Any Medic will tell you that there is a difference between 'sterile' and 'clean'.

My daughter has had a particularly nasty lung complaint which necessitated in her early teenage years, to be treated at Papworth Hospital's CF Unit. Hospitalizations every 6 - 8 weeks

In order to make life bearable, she was trained in how to give herself he own IV.
Long Lines, Bags, Flushing, Anti-Coagulants, Antibiotics, etc etc

In all this she was trained in a 'clean' process not a 'sterile' process.

Once when she had to visit a local hospital to get a new line put in, they were amazed
that a 14 year old girl was handling her own IV's and although they preferred 'sterile', they understood
clinical 'clean'.

In this discussion I feel that a false dichotomy has been set up between 'sterile' (with lots of chemical) and
not showering for a week aka disgustingly smelly.

Just be sensible.