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[tomsawyer]

While I don't consider the ebola situation a reason to panic I am watching the situation with extreme consideration. Being flu season anyway I have begun some very simple "mandatory" hand washing rules in my home. Especially for the kids. When someone enters the house the very first thing should be hand washing. Also some level of control as to guest who enter my home has to be enforced, though I have not went as far as to ask guest to wash their hand I would consider it the next step if ebola of flu begins to get out of control.

What sort of early prevention steps are the rest of you doing at this point in the game??

TS

 

[Meemur]

- No shoes allowed on in the house - spray the soles with bleach and leave by the back door.

- If the flu gets going soon, no visitors, period. I can chat on the phone or via computer.

 

[SusieSunshine]

I have relatives coming from out of town to check in on my Mom. They had already scheduled plans to visit prior to her fracture. Now they are urgent in coming. 2 are driving 12 hours. 1 is flying. All will be required to wash up and then use sanitizer on entering.

 

[Bullwinkle]

Get the small bottles of saline nasal spray for each person.
One main entry point of pathogens is through the nose, either by air particles or touching.
The nasal spray will wash the viruses and bacteria into the stomach where the acid will kill it.
This is from the neighbors. One is a nurse. The other is a pharmacist.

 

[Tundra Gypsy]

Thanks Bullwinkle, I'll pass that info along to friends and family.

 

[FireDance]

Get the small bottles of saline nasal spray for each person.
One main entry point of pathogens is through the nose, either by air particles or touching.
The nasal spray will wash the viruses and bacteria into the stomach where the acid will kill it.
This is from the neighbors. One is a nurse. The other is a pharmacist.

Did they recommend a number of times per day to do this by chance?

 

[2Trish]

Have a wedding to go to next weekend. Sadly, many of the attendees work in the medical field. Not sure we're going. Just don't want to put myself in a situation I will regret later.

By the way, welcome back Tomsawyer.

 

[Nowski]

Just today I was in a local grocery store, and an older lady was there
just hacking and coughing away.

I immediately mapped a route away from the poor lady.

Number one rule is to stay away from anybody that might be sick, if possible.

Have always followed these rules regardless of the season.

1. No shoes allowed. Part of my family is Canadian, and no shoes in the house.
2. As an Wemt, I am always washing my hands. That is the primary vector
for infectious agents getting into the body.
3. Use the anti germ wipes to clean all orifices on the face, several times a day.

Be safe everyone.

Regards to all,
Nowski

 

[Carl2]

I spent ten weeks flattened by the flu two years ago. Since then, I take more Vitamin C and use a "neti pot" to do saline irrigation of my nasal passages. Here is a link to the Wikipedia entry for "nasal irrigation":
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nasal_irrigation

Unfortunately, I'm three weeks into a bout with West Nile Virus, which is transmitted by mosquito bites. It was first discovered in West Africa around 1937 and has spread throughout the USA. Yesterday, a news story said "Yellow Fever Mosquitoes" have spread to southern California; they also carry other viruses such as Dengue Fever. Let us pray Ebola is not so successful.

 

[BetterLateThanNever]

I work in a hospital and make sure that I wash my hands as much as possible and I also use a bleach solution which is applied to the bottom of my shoes which do not make it into the house but are left on the porch.

 

[BREWER]

- No shoes allowed on in the house - spray the soles with bleach and leave by the back door.

- If the flu gets going soon, no visitors, period. I can chat on the phone or via computer.

Greetings, Meemur: That was what I was going to post. I think you/we will get to the point by November where it will be better to not take a chance on anyone coming in.

 

[Nightingale]

No shoes, wash hands and use hand sanitizer in the car.

Does anyone know if lysol will work on the bottom of shoes or does it need to be bleach for ebola?

 

[30.06]

As a "non-traditional student" at a fairly large university in a metro area, I'm simply trying to avoid anyone that may have been to "that area" of the world. I'm doing the hand-washing thing, and trying not to touch my face with my hands unless I've just washed. I like the saline nasal spray idea, and since that's cheap (always a plus for the poor college student) I can add that to my routine.

 

[tanstaafl]

Does anyone have a link to the latest number of deaths attributed to the flu thus far into the 2014-2015 flu season? The CDC Web site doesn't show it, although I could have just been looking in the wrong places there. I started a flu thread and articles posted in that showed three people had already died from the flu this flu season, but surely there are more by now.

 

[Babs]

Get the small bottles of saline nasal spray for each person.
One main entry point of pathogens is through the nose, either by air particles or touching.
The nasal spray will wash the viruses and bacteria into the stomach where the acid will kill it.
This is from the neighbors. One is a nurse. The other is a pharmacist.

We use the saline spray also. Our doctor recommended it. We spray whenever we leave a public place such as the grocery store etc.. I also spray a few times a day for moisturizer because we heat with wood and it drys my passages out pretty badly.

We also use hand sanitizer whenever we leave a public building.

Our family has now made a rule of ABSOLUTELY no public restrooms. But, if it is an emergency, I have instructed my family to not only wash after going, but to wash BEFORE going, and to line the seat with at least 3 layers of tissue paper...but that is STRICTLY an emergency. We're not planning on leaving our area anytime soon that it really would be necessary to use a public restroom. We live in a very rural/remote area of the country, and there's always a back road that we can drive down if the need arises.

Yes, shoes outside also. But I hadn't thought before now, about tracking germs on the bottom of our shoes into the car from the places we go.

We're not doing much visiting or going to any type of large gatherings. And we're not inviting anyone from out of state to visit for awhile.