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Winter bugs: Hand sanitisers

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Is It So Bad to Run Backwards and Forwards to the Sink?

There's great evidence that regular hand washing can reduce the incidence of colds. We don't need to be using these kinds of gels and altering constantly our microbiome every minute of the day. And some of these hand soaps do have an antibacterial or antimicrobial in them. I'm guessing we should stay clear of those. Just encouraging people to wash their hands when there's an opportunity is probably sufficient.

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