To let you know how to wear gloves safely in a supermarket?

[Isla727]

I have read some people saying that it felt a bit pointless to be wearing gloves in the supermarket, which touch the trolley then the food items, then the checkout desk etc. This is obviously a real concern because you could spread Coronavirus from the trolley to your food, then from checkout area to your food etc.

One option is to just use hand gel or wipes instead of gloves if you have them but here is a safe method if you are going to wear disposable gloves:

1. Take three disposable gloves with you.
2. Use glove no.1 to wipe the trolley clean then take it off as it may be contaminated with Covid-19 (it may not be!) from the trolley.
3. Put glove no.2 on your dominant hand to push the trolley.
4. Use your non-dominant bare hand to pick up food items (this avoids spreading germs from the trolley-glove to the food)
5. At the checkout; remove your 'trolley glove'; apply hand gel or use a wipe then pack your bags.
6. Then put glove no. 3 on to pay (as card machine may be contaminated) and to push the trolley one handed. At the car, take off your final glove.
7. Apply hand gel or wipes after putting bags in the car.

I have seen people wearing gloves and a mask and touch their faces at the same time. What is the point of the gloves and mask if ur still rubbing your eye

How on earth do you quarantine food

Leave it in your boot for three days and then put it straight in the wheelie bin?

I went out today, not wearing a mask or plastic gloves, and bought a loaf of bread from a bakery. It was not wrapped in plastic. It was given to me at the window of the bakery in a paper bag, which didn't cover the whole loaf. I put it in a recycled, presumably germ-ridden, M&S carrier bag, walked home, washed my hands, and made a sandwich with two slices of said loaf.

This is sane behaviour.

I have no disposable gloves. Can I wear normal gloves and throw them straight in the washing machine afterwards?

Don’t hospitals, health professionals and other keyworkers desperately need gloves? Our council’s been posting on social media trying to get businesses to donate PPE.

I just anti bac, use trolly cleaning area, pack shopping then mild bleach wash everything once home and wash the bags.

Never seen a more inappropriate use of the word ‘just’.

Also, you put bleach near your food? Stop it, it’s miles more likely to harm you and your family than Covid is.

A friend of mine was suffering from bad OCD during the Ebola outbreak. She ate hand sanitiser after being convinced she’d caught Ebola from a takeaway coffee cup.

This has given me a headache.

Just wash your hands with soap and hot water OP. Single use plastics as just as bad as 'before'.

I take a dettol (undiluted) soaked kitchen roll in a plastic bag, get out of car, put on gloves, wipe trolley down, put on gel on gloves, shop, put on gel now and again. Pay via card, put on gel, put stuff in car. Remove gloves, use gel on hands . Drive home, take shopping to back door. Wash hands. Boil kettle, drop of washing liquid and bleach in water, wipe down shopping before bringing in house. Wash hands again. Put away shopping

I also meant to say that this is presumably a piss-take.

Are people planning on behaving like this until a vaccine is found? Genuinely curious, because schools and workplaces are going to reopen before then and if you need all that drama to get your shopping I can only imagine what a work/school day will look like

I've just done a shift on a ward with 28 covid positive patients and it as ounds less stressful than op's supermarket trip!

You can only wear normal gloves if you soak them in bleach for 24hrs first, and incinerate them after. Or maybe the other way round.

Mittens are what you want

I went shopping today for the first time in weeks. I wore one pair of gloves that I put on when I got out of the car and took off before I got back in the car. I cleaned trolley handle with a wipe. I cleaned cars, keys and phone when I got in the car. I couldn’t push trolley with one hand! I cleaned everything when I got home.

Your advise is wrong. As nurses we fold our gloves in on themselves and guess what. We wash our hands. Just stop touching your face hair etc and wash your hands. Keeps visits to a minimum and boom you’ll be ok

April Fools Day was last week OP. FFS

Can never be too safe..

I do exactly the same as you BunnytheBee.
Then when I do get home I leave the food in the garage overnight, or longer if not needed straight away.

I take it nobody cares less about single use plastics anymore?

It’s ironic that our shift to single use preventions such as equipment, masks, gowns and gloves to stop the spread of infections in healthcare settings, is one of the biggest problems the NHS is now facing in preventing infections.

Duuude ...

How on earth do you quarantine food

Saw a photo on twitter where someone’s mum put her entire Tesco delivery in a soapy bath!

Also re. single use plastics- of course it matters but long-haul flights (which at least are currently restricted) have a huge impact on the environment and people get caught up with small things like plastic

Thats ridiculous, its saying "Well we dont do X any more so lets do Y 10 times more and pile up more mountains of landfill."

Lets see 400 people in a big supermarket a day x 3 = 1200 gloves per day!!!

Go into shop and get shopping.
Leave, (go to car use anti-bac before touching steering wheel if you drive)
Get home and wash hands.

And don’t get me started on the amount of cans, bottles, and takeaway boxes thrown out of cars, because god forbid you could leave it in your car and but it in your own bin when you get home. County roads are just full of trash, in normal time I always take a bag with me and pick up glass/plastic bottles and cans on my dog walks, but because of the situation my husband won’t let me be a WOMBLE!!
This ^^ x a million selfish, lazy, ignorant pratts.

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It’s still really cold here, so I am wearing outside gloves outside. Other than that, I wash my hands as soon as I come in, put shopping away, wash hands again.

Just wash your hands asap when you get home. Stop wasting endless pairs of gloved

I also meant to say that this is presumably a piss-take

Probably not. There are some incredibly anxious people out there who believe that everyone is going to kill them and they have to nuke every bug and germ out of existence.

@Isla727 you might have your reasons why you do this, I don't know so I'm giving you the benefit of the doubt.

But... have you considered even for a second what effect a thread like this might have on someone with OCD or severe anxiety? How adding another thing to worry and stress about, not just if they're doing it or not, but whether they're doing it right might affect people? How you're adding to their slippery slope?

Or being the "hero" , "saving lives" and giving the best advice ever since sliced bread was more important?

You might need to be extra careful you DO NOT NEED the attention and subsequent scaremongering.

Is this official guidance or something you made up?

This is absolutely not official guidance. Nowhere remotely close to anything resembling official guidance. The OP should ask for this to be deleted and/or apologise for speaking as if she's an expert.

Are people planning on behaving like this until a vaccine is found? Genuinely curious, because schools and workplaces are going to reopen before then and if you need all that drama to get your shopping I can only imagine what a work/school day will look like confused

I’ve been wondering this a lot. Life is going to have to return to some degree of normality long before a vaccine is found.

I think some people enjoy the drama but have quite short memories, and will just forget about the virus once it isn’t headline news every day.

I think it’s possible that we could see a massive rise in auto immune diseases and certain cancers over the next decade or so as a result of people bleaching their food and bathing in antibacterial spray.

Then when I do get home I leave the food in the garage overnight, or longer if not needed straight away.

That’s a good idea. I have a friend who said she leaves tinned foods etc in the car boot. I wouldn’t have left food in the car as it was so warm today but didn’t think of garage. It’s a good idea.