I don’t understand how that would be effective against a virus. Plus I think mouthwashes are a large scale marketing con.
Coronavirus is not a bacterial disease. I see shelves cleared of dettol and I wonder why. I also don’t see the point of antibacterial soap. Regular soap and water is just fine.
Today this poor lady who suffers from headaches was despairing at the shelves being cleared of paracetamol. She was saying that the royal “they” are making people panic buy. Every single variety of paracetamol had sold out.
Which is why I don’t understand how all the paracetamol could be sold out. It’s not that people are bulk buying it’s just that more people are buying the rationed amount of 2 x 16 tablets. So with the other stuff I don’t think it’s mass bulk buying. Just far more people who would not normally bother are buying one or two maybe at most. Try baby wipes. They were still plentiful yesterday.
Good Lord , paracetamol sold out? Do you live out in the sticks Annie ? No offence intended ,
In town Boots have stacks of them as does Savers and Superdrug .Most chemists will have them
All corner shops seem to stock them . Co ops, Tesco Express , One stop , Nisa , Premier .
Sainsburys had plenty of loo rolls and paper towels
I did notice people buying Dettol today . Perhaps diluting to wipe surfaces down ?
I’ve used antibacterial soap in a pump for years , Dettol E45 ,nicely scented Camomile .
By the way never use tissues as toilet paper , was told they don’t disintegrate . Using paper towels worse ? No one wants a blocked waste pipe on top of everything else ?
Re Paracetamol . You can buy many more than that online . Just Google online chemists / pharmacies .
Loads of hand sanitiser on eBay .
As a member I got an email from eBay warning sellers about not making a huge profit out of it because of the virus .
I don’t sell hand sanitiser but expect it’s gone out to all sellers .
It was the local relatively large tesco Zuleika and no not in the sticks. I wish I lived in the outer Hebrides the way things are going. I did buy some paracetamol yesterday purely because I was running low. But I had to go back to the same shop today and wow! It was all cleared out (I was in fact looking at the wonderful toaster that Meg had suggested on my toaster thread!) and this lady was trying to find paracetamol.
I’ve been using ecover washing up liquid in an old soap dispenser for a while now after I ran out of the other stuff and funnily enough it’s just as good for washing your hands as for washing dishes. I bulk buy a few litres and just refill. Smells nice too. I love ecover because it’s good for sensitive skin. But I’m darned if it’s going to leave my hands more dirty that an anti bact or alcohol gel. The bathroom always has a pears soap in the dish. Something very reassuringly cleansing about the smell.
The worst thing to flush down the loo are those wet wipe thingys. I don’t think they are biodegradable. If anyone tries then they float and float.
In Asda this afternoon, it looked like a flock of locust had gone through the shop.
No end of shelves empty of stuff.
Hardly any Pasta, tinned veg’s, bakes beans, and only half the usual kitchen rolls and boxes of tissues, and loo rolls.
I grabbed the very last packet of spaghetti pasta as I want to make some bolognaise tomorrow.
The bread was well down - I can only assume people are buying extra and freezing it - and handwashes were non existent and have been for several weeks.
They had plenty of baby wipes, but not a single nappy bag to put them in.
A couple of people working there told me people were panic buying like mad this morning.
Troube is, I ended up buying more than usual in the end, because there was so little left I thought if I left it, next week there may not be any at all!
I know you can buy loads OTC because I have in the past bought large quantities in the pharmacy for my elderly mum who has arthritis. I just like to have some myself in the handbag for headaches and such. I find the hand sanitiser craze intriguing. I hate the stuff which stings terribly so won’t bother. I prefer baby wipes, the sensitive ones.
If you sneeze and don’t have a tissue you are meant to stifle it by sticking your nose into the crook of your inside elbow. This is of course if you are flexible enough to get your elbow up to your nose!
Incidentally, those 4 illegals in the lorry I was on about yesterday, turned out to NOT have the virus.
They were tested because they said they weren’t feeling well, but the tests were negative so I heard today. Crafty buggers.
I would say that if you have baby wipes or nothing then baby wipes are pretty darned effective at cleaning your hands.
I think this is all alarmist nonsense. If you touch a surface with a virus then already that virus is dying & weakened. It needs a host, this is the way a virus survives. It will be at its strongest on a surface just after being touched by an infected person. If you even wipe that surface with a baby wipe you will be cleaning off any virus. This is a living thing that needs living cells to thrive. It’s like leaving a cut flower without water.
Baby wipes are water and mild detergent. Soap and water = handwashing. Baby wipes = close enough for me to feel happy. Pears soap & warm water kills all ills IMO.
I think people are getting totally carried away. The virus doesn’t live over 30 degrees so in the absence of soap even washing in just very hot water will surely kill it. But I’m far more worried about breathing it in.
Bruce I do like the idea of filling a hand sanitiser bottle with neat vodka and then sipping it when nobody is looking. If anyone questions you it’s perfectly acceptable to say you are using it as an anti-viral mouthwash.
I thought you count to thirty, sing happy birthday and God save the Queen while drinking the alcohol. If everyone did this we would all feel so much better.
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