Washing hands after nappy change - MIL thread, sorry

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My PIL are staying with us at the moment to look after DS, after I have had an operation. I appreciate is is very generous and lovely of them, and I am grateful.

However, MIL isn't washing her hands after pooey nappy changes. AIBU to be bothered by this? How can I get her to do this without basically implying she's being disgusting? We do have hand sanitizer at the nappy change station, but I found she as using that BEFORE she changed his nappy instead of after! DS is 8 months old, just for info, and my operation means I can't lift or carry him, or bend over/ kneel down, so I can't do it myself at the moment.

While I do wash my hands after using the toilet, I do find the germaphobia on here quite funny. I hope all of you wash your hands after using your mobile phone and laptop/computer keyboard.

I do. And the cashpoint, and if I touch someones hands, plus a lot more. I have rules like...we have to wash our hands before we get in bed...its a terrible thing really, but I had worms when I was a very little girl and my mum said its because I didn't wash my hands. So its just stuck... And I haven't had worms since! Haha

I wash my hands after changing nappies, and wiping kids' bottoms.
Wash them after I go to the toilet.
Wash them before preparing food or eating.
Also wash them when I get in after work before touching the kids.

Bobajo. I like the one where you wash them when you get in from work. Alot of people don't do that. And then they go to pick up my six month old baby and I'm like get the fuk off (inside)

I have three adult children. For the last 20 years I have worked in hospitals. I spend my days on and off wards visiting people with C Diff, Norovirus and MRSA. I am paranoid about passing these infections on to others and my kids in particular. I wash my hands constantly, throw away any pen the patient might have touched, don't touch the ground floor button on the lift, or the stair rail when going downstairs. When back at the office I wash my hands again.
I use a disinfectant wipe on my phones and computer every morning.
My kids have been taught to wash hands frequently.
None have us has ever had anything as much as a cold, let alone d & v

I work with children so I definitely want to wash my hands before touching my children

Bobajo. Haha! I work with children as well so I know what you mean!

Changing units have a lot to answer for.

Well I rarely wash my hands and I'm rarely ill. I've never had d&v and neither has DS.

Anecdote does not = data.

I didn't say it was germphobic to wash your hands. I said that some of the responses were ridiculous and they are. Name calling and all sorts of bizarre outbursts from people when research shows that mobiles and keyboards have a similar risk.

Oh and I work with kids but I don't wash my hands before I eat or prepare food.

I'm a proper minger.

I'm a microbiologist, she should wash her hands - for everyones health. Most minor illnesses could be avoided if everyone washed their hands better.

Haha another minger here.... Never wash my hands. Unless I do get poo on them (if I remember).

Of course you need to wash your hands ! Traces of poo and wee are getting into your fingers - jees some people are so disgusting

Ewwww, minging....So to those of you who don't wash your hands after a nappy change, would you think it would be acceptable for nursery workers to not wash thier hands after nappy changes? (ex nursery worker) I can understand if you just lived in a bubble with your baby but you are out and about surely.x

I don't wash my hands after doing nappy but I do wet wipe them. I figured that that's what they are invented for, getting rid of bodily fluids. Am I being stupid?

Eugh! I've always washed hands before and after a change but after me, oh and my little lady all getting rotavirus when she was six months old I'm extra careful. Hand sanitizer after (so I can touch doors etc) then a full WHO hand washing best practice session with hot soapy water. You are not being unreasonable.

Flingingmelon, baby wipes are only wet with moisturiser. If you're using Dettol on your skin (and baby's skin), I'd probably stop if I were you. It's too harsh, and why not use soap instead?

The same goes for hand sanitiser: it's crazy to use that constantly when you could be using effective, gentler soap, and boost that with hand sanitiser when necessary for the situation.

Wait OK.so we are suitably shaned into washing our hands now. But surely the moment you do any wiping is the moment of contamination.

So if you don't wash your hands before putting the new nappy on, surely your spreading poo and gangrene to the new nappy, any other wipes, baby's clothes when you redress and pit them somewhere safe. Then you go wheteever and wash your hands, surely you're getting gangrene on the taps and soap. And your poo infected baby is sitting on the floor/chair/whatever spreading gangrene??

So, ideally you take off nappy, clean baby. Then dispose of wipes, then wash your hands, then come back to baby and put a new nappy on and get them dressed.