Purell Hand Sanitizer Health Question

[Pickie]

Since the start of this school semester I've been using hand sanitizing products such as Purell regularly since I'm forced to commute on public transportations. Well whenever I apply on my hands, I can't help but sniff it to get that hard tinggly feeling in my nose...

Now I'm wondering, is that bad for my health?

[GreatNekoKoneko]

...no. unless you start snorting it, then yes.

[Leader Desslock]

Not unless you're allergic to it, which I assume you're not, since you're able to apply it safely.

Advice: Stop sniffing it so often.

[HELLFISH88]

Since the start of this school semester I've been using hand sanitizing products such as Purell regularly since I'm forced to commute on public transportations. Well whenever I apply on my hands, I can't help but sniff it to get that hard tinggly feeling in my nose...

Now I'm wondering, is that bad for my health?



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Your absolutley fine.

[kenshinbebop]

OMG I love that smell. That alcohol smell that makes your nose cold and then you breath in and your nose freezes. Roh yeah!

Oh, uh, no I don't think it's very harmful.

[GreatNekoKoneko]

...i think they have come out with even better scents than the regular ones. like floral stuff and what have you. im still waiting for them to come out with a $100-scented one. cause you know, i love the smell of money. so crisp, so ... "mint"-ty...heheh. whoa. bad pun.

[sailornyanko]

Meh, I just use plain soap.

[Lord Dagoth]

Doesn't that stuff lower your immunities or something?

[Takumi Fujiwara]

^ I actually would tend to believe it does, however I don't think it will cause you any big threat unless you were to use it obsessively for like 5 years then one day you ran out or forgot to put some on or something and picked up some super virus that everyone else had a decent immunity to in which case you would get some really wicked cold. My advise is just wash your hands when you get home and don't rub your eyes, or eat anything after you've taken a bus ride until you've washed your hands. IMO hand sanitizers are just a BS thing made up for people that are obsessed with germs. Your constantly getting assaulted with germs wherever you are, but you very rarely get sick compared to the number of germs you encounter. I don't really think that clean hands are really going to save you that much coldwise.

As for the tingle it's probably just the alcohol, and whatever else is in there thats killing germs and making it smell like whatever it smells like. I'm sure by now if it did you any real harm there would be 50000 highschool kids buying the stuff by the cases and trying to get high from it in class (white out anyone?).

[Haro!]

I don't think anything terrible would happen from sniffing it, unless there's like a warning or something and even still those are very-absolutely-worst-case-scenario sorts of things.
As to the question of BSness. I think it is partially BS, and to some extent it is helpful when you can't wash your hands, or would not want to go into a public restroom to do so (it makes me feel dirty).

[Takumi Fujiwara]

^ That's true, I guess I shouldn't have raised the BS flag so high, yes it does have it's purpose, I could see using it if you had to do something like dig something out of the trash at work and there was no washroom around, or something. It's just that often times when I think of hand sanitizer I always imagine over reacting soccer moms that scream at their kids for splashing in mud puddles and grabing random junk off the street. The phrase "put that down! you don't know where it's been, ZOMG it's probably got germs!!1" usually prompts a responce from me of "back when I was a kid there was no hand sanitizer, and I'm still alive, leave your kid alone".

[Haro!]

It's just that often times when I think of hand sanitizer I always imagine over reacting soccer moms that scream at their kids for splashing in mud puddles and grabing random junk off the street. The phrase "put that down! you don't know where it's been, ZOMG it's probably got germs!!1" usually prompts a responce from me of "back when I was a kid there was no hand sanitizer, and I'm still alive, leave your kid alone".
Yeah that's very true. Parents over do it nowadays with the germ stuff. Whatever happened to natural selection?

[sailornyanko]

Hahaha, I think that's the whole marketing point of those paper things too.

If they really do have alcohol (dunno, I don't use them), they won't damage your immunity, but since alcohol damages tissue, if you obsessively smell it; over the years you could lose your sense of smell. And since the nerves connections of the senses of smell and taste run together, you could lose perception of the flavor of food. I believe this doesn't happen however with mouthwash since the sensitive nerve receptors of the mouth and thorat aren't so exposed (or we'd get meningitis all the time :lol: ). Plus the tissue in your mouth is used to abrasion, but the sensitive nerve tissue in your upper nose is much more frail.

Just a suggestion.

Frankly, I'd be much more worried about cellphones. They are germ farms.

[sailornyanko]

Yeah that's very true. Parents over do it nowadays with the germ stuff. Whatever happened to natural selection?

:lol: Words of wisdom my friend.

My best friend's dad is a real germaphobe freak and he has a second wife (he got divorced years ago) and has two small children. Well, he's just really uber creepy obsessive about germs and his young kids. He doesn't let them get into contact with any dirt or even touch the fur coat of house dogs even though they were bathed. Hahaha, I'm not spared. He thinks I'm a walking tank of infectious diseases.

The kids get sick CONSTANTLY

My medical advice to worried parents: Is the kid vaccinated against tetanus? Yes, oh, just let him run down those hills filled with broken beer bottles. I know nothing ever happened to me because I went down hills to grab broken beer bottles to smash them against rocks out of boredom when i was a young teenager. Those were the days.

[The Million Dollar Prons]

Oh No You Got Aids From Purell

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