Is it a bit OTT to disinfect your shopping when you get it home?

[Bunnylady54]

I keep seeing posts on Facebook about doing this & tbh it wouldn’t have occurred to me at all. I keep as safe as I can when I shop but not sure it’s necessary to spray what you take home. Also saw something about washing coats etc when you’ve been for a walk.

@stupidquestions hope you are ok. Plenty people aren't doing all this cleaning...please don't worry. I'm an OCDer if you need to talk.

I was planning to. Supermarket trip tomorrow.
I've been washing the milk bottles in the morning.

Thank you @sylbunny and @DatingDickheads . Funnily enough been thinking that - to switch off Mumsnet for a couple of days and try to calm down a bit ... I’ve been 12 hours online now which isn’t good at all . Convinced a great deal of it is making me feel a whole lot more panicked and in a vicious cycle . Away to try sleep but thank you so much x

Wash shopping down with warm soapy water.
Leave cardboard outside
Wear disposable gloves when getting shopping/opening cardboard packaging.

I go the supermarket in near full hazmat style.

You must be quite a sight.

We use a mild bleach solution to wipe shopping

No, I cannot live like that. It would send me bananas.

I do used to use dettol anti bac until t was mentioned to me on here and I comfirmed that it doesn't kill Covid 19 strain.

It almost certainly does. It's just too new a strain to be available for commercial testing.

www.dettol.co.uk/about-us/understanding-coronavirus/

I’m a bit in the middle but have been thinking about it. I received an online shop the other day and the delivery man put all the carrier bags in the hall way. I then sprayed the handles of the bag with isopropyl alcohol, or tried to, without spraying the food.

I then washed all of the fruit in soap and warm water (oranges, apples, lemons and limes). I don’t always do that but may start to. I felt as though things were less likely to have been touched as they were from an online shop. Obviously some people will have touched them but not like shoppers do in the supermarket.

Also people who wear gloves to shop. How does that work? When you take the gloves off at home you’re just touching all the shopping items you picked up with the gloves UNLESS you wash it all...

I think it is very OTT to do this. I'm just washing my hands more often, that's it.

Bunny where did your online shop come from? The deliveries from the big supermarkets are picked from a store, not a separate warehouse so they’re no less likely to be touched by people. Unless you’re talking about Ocado, I think they’re different.

Wafflehouse It is from Morrison’s. I thought they used to pick from supermarkets but then thought no, surely the staff just pick stuff out of the warehouse, rather than shopping in the store??

Cohle

I've read it several times but I cant find it.

Please highlight where it says it kills the Covid19 strain.

TIA

Totally unnecessary. If it was, there would be a massive campaign and none of the health professionals in my family are doing this. I'm getting deliveries so once I've put the shopping away I wash my hands and wipe the surfaces that the shopping was unloaded onto. The virus can't live in the fridge for long, and if I touch/open cans when cooking, I wash my hands again. Then again just before I eat. I really don't think any more should be done.

Antibac doesn't kill the virus directly. It has a weak membrane which it needs to survive so any cleaning sprays and soap and hot water will break it down.

@adiposegirl2

There is a section called Does Dettol kill the Coronavirus (COVID-19)?

@BunnyTheBee Your online shop is picked off the shop floor, not a warehouse.

adipose what does your supermarket hazmat stuff consist of, please?

Well that’s disappointing 🤦‍♀️

I will be disinfecting next time!

Yes, I'm wiping all my shopping down with a diluted bleach solution. I'm high risk so anything I can do to help (even if it's just psychological) is good.

I don’t think anything is OTT when it comes to trying to prevent the spread of this virus.

I'm
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Wash with dilute bleach
away the things we cannot see

Products that you put in a dirty basket or trolley, that loads of other people have handled and coughed over? Too right I clean them. It takes about 10 minutes.
The best thing to clean surfaces and packaging is washing up liquid and hot water. Antibacterial wipes and sprays are ineffective against this particular virus.
I wash fruit and veg in running water for several minutes, dry it and put it away.
This virus is deadly.
I don't want it in my cupboards/fridge.

Not OTT at all. I just give them a wipe over with wipes and then a damp kitchen towel. And I always take from the back in store.

Given that dettol hasn't been tested, why not just use the stuff we know works?
Washing up liquid and hot water, soap and hot water, bleach solution. All cheap, easily available and effective.
People who are losing their jobs, can't pay their rent, are being conned into buying expensive products that either don't work, or haven't been proven to work.

Morrisons shopping is run by ocado and comes from a wharehouse.

We are wiping our stuff over. You only need someone to cough all over the packets and then it's in the cupboards and fridge.

I'm also not eating takeaways but was told on another thread that I was being ridiculous.

Each to their own. As long as we're not going out.