Are you being a little more carefully this flu season? I've been trying to take Ryan out as much as possible before I have the baby, but I'm also trying to limit it to and use a lot of hand sanitizer and cover the carts when we go out shopping. How 'bout you?

I am pretty cautious every flu season, but yeah I'm even more so with this H1N1 thing. I try not to take the girls out in public too much, if I do I have hand sanitizer ready to wipe down hands and the shopping cart. I've taught Ariel to wash her hands and/ or use her germ x at school, not to put her hands up to her face, to cough and sneeze into her arm, etc. So yeah we're more careful this year for sure. None of us have been vaccinated (I'm still debating this one).

Yep, every time we leave a public place I load my kids hands up with sanitizer. I have pushed the whole not putting their hands in their mouth and covering their cough and sneezes. I am a germaphobe on a normal day anyway but this is just making me much more careful. Our town has been hit SUPER hard already, to the point where they were discussing closing the schools but we were so close to fall break so they pushed it and were able to stay open until break which has been this week. Hopefully they get the schools cleaned real good and all the sickies have run their course while the kids have been home. I have been reading EVERY day about a new kid around here getting sick with it. Several have been hospitalized too.

I may be a tad more cautious then i usually am but not really, we are still going to go out and do what we need to do, the only difference is if he is sick i'll take him to the dr. faster than i would during normal times, i have hand sanitizer in his bag but unless he is around someone yucky or gets into something yucky i don't use it, i rarely take him shopping with me anymore i usually do that right before i pick him up from daycare.

I am always aware that is flu season but all you can do is make sure to wash hands and use sanitizer. I carry a small travel can of Lysol in my purse and spray stuff down. I acutlly sprayed my cart down after I used it too and a lady came running to see if she could have it since it was cleaned.

That is what Wal-mart should invent is a steam bath for the carts as they come in from outside. Just run them through a corral room of hot steam and then have a dryer on the outside lke a carwash. They could help kill millions of germs

Nope, not worried, we're going to be the same as every other year.

Oh I am so worried, we have the hand sanitizer and what not. I am trying to teach my husband to be more cautious.

Nope not really. Just the usual cover you mouth when you sneeze/cough and be sure to wash your hands.

I am definitely trying to enforce more hand washing and sanitizer.

We just had 4 more deaths in the state from the H1N1....so sad!!

quote:

Originally posted by Christel529:
Oh I am so worried, we have the hand sanitizer and what not. I am trying to teach my husband to be more cautious.

Yeah, I try to make sure dh washes his hands when he comes home before touching us. The flu is going around at his workplace. I should also tell my aunt to also 'cause she works at a school. Would it be rude of me to ask anyone else to wash their hands when coming to our home?

Not rude at all.... responsible!

I always make sure everyone that comes through the door washes their hands after being out. You just never know what you're bringing home!

All this H1N1 Stuff is really Starting to Scare me. I am starting to second Guess myself on not getting the H1N1 vac. for my Kids. I just Called my Peds office and He said yes he Recomends it as long as it is the Shot and NOT the Mist.......But Of course he is out of stock for it and I should call back next Week......I figure that'll give me a few more days to think about it. Oh and Yes I have been Pushing the Hand Washing and the Sanitizer

We do have a grovery store that has a cart coral I think its called and they push them through and it cleans them.

Ive been hearing to teach the kids to not touch their face AT ALL. As any germs can get into thier nose etc. Wipe their faces as often as your wash hands.Have them blow thier noses several times a day and drink warm liquids several times a day. It washes the germs in your mouth and throat to your stomach where they can withstand the acid.

No, I'm not doing anything special with the kids. At school we've been told to have the kids use hand sanitizer more often, they even installed dispensers all over the school. I also wipe my table down with Lysol wipes after each group. It was interesting at church last week, using hand sanitizer has become part of the communion routine.

I didnt notice hs at communion but i did notice ALOT werent drinking form the cup. Im not catholic so i dont participate since im not allowed etc but I noticed..lol..

We haven't really been doing anything differently.

I'm not really doing anything differently that I normally do at home...we already cover our mouths, wash our hands, and stuff like that...

At work I am a little bit more, but not so much for me...it's more for my other patients that could be high risk...if I get a patient that has H1N1 or strep or even just a fever I'll wipe my desk and the patients chair down and back track their route in the office....and also anyone with a fever we are asking to wear a mask...if they refuse then their doctor has a little talk with them.

We are definitly being more cautious this season.

I am cautious regardless...especially of nasty shopping carts..blech!