Community Chat

[hopi]

@goldensrbest 

IMO think it is a big mistake... cotton absorbs.  When the skin on my hands became sensitive wore  cotton gloves for protection. They absorbed all the moisture out of my skin and made them worse.  Changed to disposable gloves they healed very quickly from the damage that I made worse by wearing the cotton.

The white cotton will show the dirt from the store but will also absorb any

moisture that you touch, your hands will become more vulnerable.

eta: Gloves do stop germs from entering your skin surface. That's why nurses, doctors, dentists, etc wear them all the time when touching patients it is a 2 way safety protection.  My skin would fall off if I had to wash my hands this much.  People also have hangnails, small cuts , leasions on their skin so again you are protecting yourself and others. People act like all this stuff is new science and it is not.  Germs are airborne and on surfaces.  NO one can ever say the exact way you were infected.

[hopi]

---

@deeva wrote:

I see people wearing latex gloves and just shake my head. They're just cross contaminating everything they touch. 

I did buy white cotton gloves that I use only to pump gas and when I use the drive thru at my bank. Then, I wash them. 

---

You can shake your head all you want, hands cross contaminate more than gloves.  That cotton is not doing a thing for you.  

[mousiegirl]

---

@deeva wrote:

I see people wearing latex gloves and just shake my head. They're just cross contaminating everything they touch. 

I did buy white cotton gloves that I use only to pump gas and when I use the drive thru at my bank. Then, I wash them. 

---

@deeva  Then bare hands would do the same, or worse.  I wear disposable, then remove when out of the store.

[stuyvesant]

---

@mousiegirl wrote:

---

@deeva wrote:

I see people wearing latex gloves and just shake my head. They're just cross contaminating everything they touch. 

I did buy white cotton gloves that I use only to pump gas and when I use the drive thru at my bank. Then, I wash them. 

---

@deeva  Then bare hands would do the same, or worse.  I wear disposable, then remove when out of the store.

---

I wear disposable gloves to throw out my garbage, and to open packages.  Then I toss them.

I like nitrile gloves the best.  I wonder if there's a shortage of them, because they are going up in price on amazon.  I haven't seen them on dispay in the stores, either.

[arizona babe]

@goldensrbest as a nurse I have to say don't wear gloves, they offer no protection at all- and unless you know the proper way to take them off you are just esclating the issues- wash your hands, don't tounch your face without clean hands and wear a mask- those are the best things you can do- oh and stay home unless you have to go somewhere this is not the time for parties, gatherings, dining in or just plain going out

[goldensrbest]

I feel saver by wearing gloves, everything one touches has germs,and virus, i have been using gloves for a few yrs, to gas up car, just expanded the amount.

[goldensrbest]

Just think how one is cross contaminating bare hands, i wear new pair when i run errands,then going out to car,i take off ,by rolling them down off wrist, get into car ,and wipe hands,keys ,door handle.

[RedTop]

I am not paranoid about touching anything I need to touch with my bare hands. In stores I touch only the products I buy, and clean my hands well with wet ones as soon as I'm in my car. Same routine at the gas station. I've done this for nearly 30 years, and will continue to be careful, but will not let this virus make me paranoid.