[at-l] Medical Risks of Wilderness Hiking

[jbryankramer at msn.com (J Bryan Kramer)]

Let's be real world here, I think a normal wash up with soap will get you
99% of the benefits without doing surgical prep washups. LNT is fine but
again is needs to be adjusted to real world conditions, I know some folks
would be happy to suffer disease in order to toe the enviro political line
but I'm not one of them.

Bryan

>     * Use warm running water and a mild liquid soap.
>     * Wet your hands and apply a small amount of soap to your hands.
>     * Rub your hands together until soapy lather appears. Wash for at
> least 15 seconds making sure to scrub between your fingers and under
> your fingernails.
>     * Rinse your hands under warm running water.
>     * Dry your hands with a disposable or single-use towel.
>
> Give me a break!  A quick scan on the web showed that a huge problem in
> hospitals is that staff simply don't have TIME to wash their hands!
>
> I generally wash up with water and a bandanna (but usually no soap) to
> remove most of the grime, and then use the alcohol gel before preparing
> food... when I remember... which isn't always.  I use an "EZ Fill"
> ziploc to hold the water (it has a flat bottom) and move a little bit
> away from the stream, but generally not 200 feet if I'm just cleaning up
> grime.  The same bag, by the way, is good for rinsing out clothes.
>
> If I've gotten really disgusting I've been known to use soap, and then I
> try to do the LNT thing.  Mostly, though, I skip the soap.
>
> -- Jim
>
>
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