A solution could be the solution.
There’s a very dangerous item lurking in your home. It could be in the den or the family room, or perhaps in a bedroom or even the kitchen. And it’s something you touch everyday…maybe several times a day. It’s just sitting there, collecting germs and waiting to make you sick. What is it?
It’s your computer keyboard! Unless you clean it regularly with disinfectant – and that only happens in about 12 percent of homes – your keyboard could be crawling with pathogens that you and others in your home could be ingesting every day. There are also probably tiny bits of food that have been sitting on your keyboard for a long time.
Of course, computer keyboards are not the only places where germs can congregate. The same types of pathogens could be on your coffeemaker, your cell phone and any reading materials you might keep in your bathrooms. All are capable of getting you and others sick. How gross is your computer keyboard? The answer is usually “pretty gross.”
The solution is a solution. If applied regularly, an alcohol-based solution should take care of 99 percent of the germs that can get you sick, not to mention all the other disgusting stuff that accumulates on your keyboard and elsewhere in your home.
Do you clean your computer keyboard regularly? What about doorknobs and frequently used kitchen appliances? We can be our own worst enemy when we fail to do the simple things that can keep us from spreading germs and getting sick. Let me know what other household items should be cleaned regularly that most of us probably neglect to clean. Your contribution to this discussion could help keep a fellow patriot healthy!
Being in a people service business I meet and greet people daily. First gesture is to introduce yourself and shake hands. What lurks in those hands no one knows. Try to get in the habit of clinching your hand into a fist and tapping his or her ‘s as if giving a high five. They acknowledge the reason
Eventually.
CLEAN ANYTHING your hand TOUCHES – WEEKLY. ( Think light switches, fridge door, toilet handle….)
Wash hands right before you eat without touching tech (phone, remote, etc) and the refrigerater door….
Yes always remember all that you touch needs cleaning at least once a week. When i have company i clean knobs and etc. to keep from cold and flu. Hydrogen peroxide is great.
Clean ANYTHING YOUR HAND TOUCHES !!
ALWAYS wash right before you eat… without touching any tech (phones, remote, etc, handles, etc
People with pets, dogs, cats, etc. need to wash their hands (and face) after a romp with their petl
Do NOT forget to wipe down remote controls. Everyone touches it!!!
I clean other peoples toilets, filth, and sewer lines on a regular basis. [I NEVER GET SICK] This is how to become immune to sickness
Great blog. I learned some new things. When it comes to germs let’s not forget about video game controls. While there are no longer any video game systems in my home, I can still remember my kids and their friends huddled together with their snacks and sharing the game controls. Also, the washer & dryer (inside and surface lid) needs to be treated with disinfectant. And let’s not forget our car interior — especially the steering wheel. Thanks.
Germs are good for you, they are the key to how the body adapts to it’s environment…unless you’ve been taking prescription drugs or engaged in allopathic medicine, that is…
Pillows and Handbags! Even if you don’t wash your pillow, at least throw it in the dryer with a damp cloth for a few minutes to kill dust mites, germs and pollutants.
Handbags…..just think abut how many times a day you sit your handbag down on the floor, bathroom counter, table, etc. when you’re out and about? We need to wipe down or wash those babies once a week!
And I’m all in favor of bringing back ladies’ dress gloves when shopping…I think that would cut down the spread of germs exponentially!
My kids like to romp around & play with the Accent Pillows in my home; so, I have the zippered kind. I can remove the cover and wash them occasionally.
Bleach, wipes or peroxyde…depending on what we’re cleaning. Thanks, Frank and patriots for your comments.
Salt&pepper shakers in food establishments are also
great germ carriers
Those of us who have worked in jobs where computers and phones are shared by multiple employees are well aware of the germiness of these particular items. If you use a cash register at work, that’s another source, not to mention handling customers’ germy cash and credit cards.
We live in a germy world. Everything is covered with staph, strep, bugs whose source is the intestinal tract, etc., etc. Washing hands and cleaning surfaces with disinfectant surely helps, but so does maintaining the immune system. Vitamin D is essential to immune system function. If you live in a climate with colder winters (or tend to stay inside), chances are your body is not be producing adequate vitamin D from exposure to sunlight at this time of year, so you’ll need to make sure you’re getting enough from your diet, or supplements.
I’ll add one – toilet handles!!! not only is it from fingers touching, yet the spray from a toilet goes an average of 3 feet – with the new low flow, power flush I saw a video where the feces was thrown over 5 feet – yuk – close the lid before you flush and for safety get that bleach wipe out for the handle, seat, and cover whenever you can… Also I agree with folks – knobs (including fridge and faucets) are a common transfer place for germs!
Anything with a filter. air conditioner, furnace, vacum cleaner, hand held vacums,humidifers,vaporizers, dehumidifers, etc.
Did anybody mention the gas pump?
I don’t know about you, but I usually eat in front of my computer from time to time. It can be a breakfast from McDonalds, a lunch from Jack in the Box, or even a snack or two; not even mention drinking coffee or a soft drink or two. With that said how about you take the time right now and turn your key board upside down and shake it a few times. See all that crud that is falling out between the key? well that is the food that you are feeding all those nasty bacteria and germs. If you wipe the key board down with Windex, Lysol, rubbing alcohol or some other cleaner; you would have killed 98% of the germs that live on your key board.
So it is up to you feed the germs and possibly get very sick or keep it clean. There are other devices that fall into this category, such as your cell phone, telephones at the office, remote control(s) ie. the TV, radio, DVD/VCR player and so on. I bet they all can stand a good cleaning.
But the number one item that needs to be cleaned and often is your hands. Just think about it for a minute, as you touch something how often do you touch your face, eye, mouth, ears? You just transferred germs from your hand to your face where they can easily get inside you through your mouth, nose or infect your eyes. The only remedy, wash your hands and wash them often. Just remember this and it should help you wash your hands, “Do I want to eat with what is on my hands now or do I need to wash them first? Hand washing eliminates 98% of the germs that you have unknowingly been collecting on your hands. Stay healthy.
A little known bug thats thought of is MRSA. Its a type of staph infection resistant to moat antibiotics. Once you get it, you got it for keeps and it keeps on giving. Easily spread also. A large percent of people have it and don’t know it. Alcohol wont kill it, but peroxide most times will. Very few disinfectants will also. Keep that in mind.
banisters
refrigerator door handles
To thoroughly disinfect you must maintain a dwell time of 10 minutes with whatever cleaner you use.
I would suggest laying damp clorox wipe on keyboard.
Peroxide cleaner kills even hiv but still requires ten minute dwell. It will not effect TB as it is a spore and requires hospital grade disinfectant.
I use an essential oil spray I make myself. it’s natural no chemicals and kills MRSA too. and it also builds your immune system at the same time.
What is the recipe for OR resource for obtaining this oil?
Thank you.
Your Remotes – TV, DVR, Cable are super filth collectors!
When it looks or feels dirty, it gets cleaned—usually with plain water. I have a lot of allergies, and am more likely to get sick from the chemicals that many people use for cleaning than from the germs. Most people are born with a healthy immune system to ward off any germs they may encounter, but nobody seems to talk about that any more. I clean with soap and water, vinegar, baking soda, or bleach for something really nasty. I don’t use commercial disinfectants, and will go for several years at a time without getting as much as a two-day cold. It’s not about avoiding germs as much as avoiding environmental toxins and keeping your immune system strong.
People are not born with good immune systems. It has to be built with mother’s milk that is very important that most modern mothers neglect for advertised commercial formulas and cows milk!
Cleaning your kitchen counter top with hydrogen peroxide works very well, and it’s. cheap
I usually go around the house about once a month with those clorox wipes. I wipe doorknobs, cabinet handles, light switches, buttons and knobs on appliances, remote controls, and the telephone. Basically anything someone is likely to put their hands on.
Have you ever taken a look at most people’s can openers? Generally their cutting wheels are rusty and have been exposed to all kinds of various food products, anywhere from human food to pet foods and no one seems to ever take a second thought when grabbing their trusty tool from the drawer and start twisting away.
Open doors in public places without touching the doors with bare hands. Use a sleeve over the hand or the forearm to push swinging doors with a horizontal crossbar open or use a hip but not bare hands like 99 percent of the public does.
I agree with all of the ones and mentioned and want to add to the list children’s toys! They put them in their mouths all of the time after they have been sitting on a carpet that is also full of germs!
The handles on the refrigerator and freezer are pretty nasty. The sink in the kitchen and/or bathroom are so nasty. Disinfectant wipes are my best friends..lol
Consider spraying your AC/ Heat vents with a disinfectant, when you are cleaning. That same air that passes thru the ducts, is the same air you are inhaling. An
d it will help deoderize your home or
office at the same time
Most germs don’t live that long. It’s the superbugs that you have to worry about and bleach is the chemical that kills those. I’ll name a few, VRE, MRSA, and other organisms such as C-dif (to name a few) that lives sometimes months on dry surfaces. I agree with you to clean your keyboards, phones, doorknobs etc with a bleach wipe.