Are you an anti-bacterial queen?

Faith177

One of my friends has OCD quite badly she use 1-2 of the big bottles of bleach a day!

She has 4 children all 4 have asthma and are constantly ill. They have a list of allergies as long as your arm.

They are not allowed to play in the garden as it is too dirty. She made them an indoor play room with a slide and swings but that means the 3 girls have to share a room and 1 of them is now 11 and the two younger girls are 3 and 10 months so don't know if she will be able to do this much longer. She won't allow them to have friends over and won't let them go to friends houses due to unknown germs ect. It's a nightmare

By all means keep the house clean and antibac the sides and anywhere food is prepared and bathrooms but no need for overkill

BitterAndTwisted

As soon as a baby starts putting its hands in its mouth it's getting acquainted with bacteria in the environment. New-borns just need all the usual sensible precautions to be taken with bottles etcetera.

Ant-bac this, that and the other is just clever marketing preying on causing paranoia where there is no actual need. Hot soapy water is what our descendants used and is perfectly adequate in most circumstances.

That ruddy Dettol laundry detergent ad gets on my nerves! Unless you've got a sick-room, are nursing an invalid or someone with an infectious disease, most have no use for it, and if we did normal disinfectant would be quite sufficient.

74jax

When I had my daughter (15 years ago) I washed her bottles inthe sink, didn't sterilise at all.

I'm not an antibactirial queen at all, I like things tidy and clean but thats it really.

System

I'm an anti bacterial queen. Theres enough germs in a normal day to day living outdoors without having to have them in the house as well.

Person_one

Faith177 wrote: »

One of my friends has OCD quite badly she use 1-2 of the big bottles of bleach a day!

She has 4 children all 4 have asthma and are constantly ill. They have a list of allergies as long as your arm.

Yikes, that much bleach around the house will not be good for their chests!

BitterAndTwisted

Anti-bac obsessives probably have rather a lot more on their minds than a few microbes brought in from outside. Open a window and they're in! If you feel the need for operating-theatre-style asepsis you're fighting a losing battle. That way, madness lies.

Person_one

Judi wrote: »

I'm an anti bacterial queen. Theres enough germs in a normal day to day living outdoors without having to have them in the house as well.

We'd all be completely screwed if we didn't have enough 'germs' around us, on us and inside us.

Too much antibac product means that sooner or later they get resistant to it anyway so the products stop working when you actually need them to.

Faith177

Person_one wrote: »

Yikes, that much bleach around the house will not be good for their chests!

That's what me, her family and her husband keep telling her but she just can't stop.

She refuses point blank not to see a therapist because last time she did her and she easied up on the cleaning and started looking like she has turned a corner her oldest got chicken pox and we were straight back to square one :wall:

Person_one

Faith177 wrote: »

That's what me, her family and her husband keep telling her but she just can't stop.

She refuses point blank not to see a therapist because last time she did her and she easied up on the cleaning and started looking like she has turned a corner her oldest got chicken pox and we were straight back to square one :wall:

That's such a shame, true OCD is a terrible thing. Of course, no amount of cleaning would ever stop a child getting chicken pox, but logic doesn't come into it I suppose.

System

Person_one wrote: »

We'd all be completely screwed if we didn't have enough 'germs' around us, on us and inside us.

Too much antibac product means that sooner or later they get resistant to it anyway so the products stop working when you actually need them to.

Probably but i'll stick to the way I do things thanks