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Friday, August 19, 2005
Cold Cut
Lately, I've become really fond of hand sanitizers. I love how they feel like cool, soothing lotion when you put them on, but then they dry up and leave your hands feeling smooth, clean, and dry. Not only does hand sanitizer feel good, it works well, too (according to the CDC recommendations on hand hygiene).
Courtesy of some drug reps (don't worry, I haven't sold myself out.. yet.. j/k), I have some hand sanitizer that smells like Tide laundry detergent. Plus, it's got moisturizing beads (and they stay suspended in solution, which looks cool).
In healthcare settings, there's a quality product from 3M called Avagard D. It's a hand sanitizer, but it's chock full of moisturizers which makes it look a lot like lotion.
Which brings to mind a tangent:
Sitting on the table in the physicians' work room at clinic was a fancy new product to be tested by yours truly. It was a big bottle of something antibacterial enriched with vitamin E and containing dead sea minerals. Thinking (or rather, not thinking at all) that it was hand sanitizer, I generously applied some to my hands. But to my surprise, it didn't absorb or evaporate or disappear. Re-examining the bottle, I realized that it wasn't "lotion-like" hand sanitizer but rather just lotion, period. Looking around, I had to resort to quickly wiping the excess (there was a lot of it) off my hands with several tissues before others noticed (I'm not sure if I succeeded, though). A foolish blunder on my part, indeed. Anyway, there really isn't a more obvious way to find out about a paper cut (no matter how small) on your hands than applying a good amount of alcohol-based hand sanitizer on them. Ooh, that's a fun and tingling discovery that happened to me earlier today. Now to try and figure out where I got the cut..
1:04 AM Albert
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