Timeline for Is it helpful for the average citizen (non medical professionals) to wear gloves and disinfect them instead of disinfecting the bare hands?
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| Feb 26, 2022 at 20:50 | vote | accept | Alexei | ||
| May 27, 2020 at 21:59 | answer | added | anongoodnurse | timeline score: 2 | |
| May 27, 2020 at 3:19 | comment | added | BobE | @CareyGregory- yep, single use rubber/latex gloves are not removed like you would leather gloves. Don't know why people cant figure that out. | |
| May 26, 2020 at 17:52 | comment | added | Carey Gregory♦ | @BobE I've seen people do it wrong. | |
| May 25, 2020 at 12:13 | comment | added | BobE | @alexei my personal experience does not support any difficulties in removing gloves. I have worn gloves for years to wash dishes, work on mechanical equipment, gardening and mowing the lawn. Peeling gloves off, starting at the cuff, so that the ‘soiled’ surface is now inside isn’t any problem at all. | |
| May 25, 2020 at 5:53 | comment | added | Carey Gregory♦ |
@Alexei "replacing the gloves without touching the outer surface is not very easy for the regular folk" -- That's only the beginning of the problems. Ever tried taking off a pair of gloves on a warm day and putting on a new pair? Virtually impossible if your hands are sweaty (and they will be on a warm day). And if you're not changing gloves between each "encounter" then you're accomplishing nothing. I think they're little more than a false sense of security with a respiratory virus. People will think they can skip hand washing/sanitizing because of the gloves.
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| May 25, 2020 at 5:26 | comment | added | Alexei | @BobE - yes. I have edited the question because I have realized I was not asking what I really wanted to know: often disinfecting the gloves instead of the bare hands. This seems more practical to me (replacing the gloves without touching the outer surface is not very easy for the regular folk). | |
| May 25, 2020 at 5:23 | history | edited | Alexei | CC BY-SA 4.0 |
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| May 25, 2020 at 3:43 | comment | added | BobE | Alexei, The sources you mention in your comment are likely referring to SAR-Cov-2 virus protection. While the CDC has published that the risk of virus transfer is low, disinfection remains a best practice and is recommended. The simple fact is that medical researchers are still learning about the virus, for example, they still don't know the minimal infectious dosage (fewest virus particles that will cause 50% of the people to become ill), so the best advice is to try to avoid any contact with the virus. | |
| May 25, 2020 at 3:31 | comment | added | BobE | @Bryan - pathogens may enter the body thru nicks and scrapes in the skin. Wearing proper gloves will guard against not only caustic or acidic irritation and destruction of the skin, but also a barrier to pathogens like Legionella pneumophila, Escherichia coli, Salmonella, Campylobacter jejuni, and Listeria monocytogenes (all of which can be found in common garden soil). | |
| May 24, 2020 at 20:38 | comment | added | Alexei | @BobE - yes, but such activities are typically short-lived. Put them on, use them for a while and get rid of them. When asking the question I was thinking among longer activities: get out of the apartment, touch some "dirty" objects (handles), go buy something, touch some stuff others touched before etc. Many sources mention to disinfect immediately after touching possibly infected items (and that can happen dozens of times per day) and I am wondering if this is easier to perform for the gloves instead of the bare hands. | |
| S May 24, 2020 at 20:30 | history | edited | Alexei |
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| S May 24, 2020 at 20:30 | history | suggested | I likeThatMeow |
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| May 24, 2020 at 20:29 | comment | added | Bryan Krause♦ | @BobE Most people who wear gloves during cleaning activities, including the toilet, do so to protect their hands from the cleaning agents (many of which are quite caustic) rather than infection. | |
| May 24, 2020 at 3:46 | comment | added | BobE | Your question seems to embrace a wider world of pathogens than SARS-COV-2. That being said, I generally wear gloves when I clean the toilet. | |
| May 23, 2020 at 21:07 | comment | added | I likeThatMeow | Related Does wearing gloves help against being infected with COVID-19? & Do gloves offer extra protection in general against a COVID-19 infection? | |
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| May 23, 2020 at 16:14 | history | asked | Alexei | CC BY-SA 4.0 |