Wellness

[CherryHugs]

I just read about a little girl getting sepsis from trying on shoes in a store without socks. The Dr said she probably had a cut or bug bite where the infection got in. Scary.

This makes you think that it might not be a good idea for anyone to Try On Shoes with No Socks!!

When you think of other people trying on shoes with no socks then you try them on, well that alone is disgusting!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/life/allthemoms/2018/09/04/mom-warns-sepsis-risk-after-daughter-gets-...

[qualitygal]

Guess anything can happen...all the places I've been to try on shoes usually has the little sox to slip on, or I'm wearing sox.

[sidsmom]

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@CherryHugs wrote:

I just read about a little girl getting sepsis from trying on shoes in a store without socks. The Dr said she probably had a cut or bug bite where the infection got in. Scary.

This makes you think that it might not be a good idea for anyone to do this!

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....to do what, exactly?

To get a cut or a bug bite?

[KentuckyWoman]

I never try on shoes without a footie or sock.  This child apparently had some type of wound on her foot and it got infected.  I'm not sure if the doctors are one hundred percent sure it was shoes that did it.  I haven't been following the story all that closely.  Hope the child recovers. 

[I am still oxox]

@cherry started the same thread last week.

My comment was Sepsis is a blood poison that does not live on objects

[SilleeMee]

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@I am still oxox wrote:

@cherrystarted the same thread last week.

My comment was Sepsis is a blood poison that does not live on objects

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This is incorrect. Sepsis is the chemical (toxins) release from bacteria into the bloodstream which triggers an immune response...inflammation. The bacteria which can cause sepsis can live on surfaces. Fungi, viruses, and parasites also cause sepsis.

[sidsmom]

It’s odd the shoes are being blamed.

She could’ve touched a zillion other things in the

other 23hr-50min of that day...why the shoes? 

[cherry]

I always wear a footie or a stocking when I try on shoes. I think everyone  should for hygene's sake

[SilleeMee]

I don't even wear any kind of open-style footwear in public places and I take off my shoes at the front door when I come home. Germaphobe??...absolutely.

[sidsmom]

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@SilleeMee wrote:

I don't even wear any kind of open-style footwear in public places and I take off my shoes at the front door when I come home. Germaphobe??...absolutely.

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@SilleeMee

Aren’t you a biologist? I recall a conversation about parasites

and you responded you dealt w/ something w/ labs.

(I’m sorry I don’t remember the details!)