What reason would people be against hand sanitiser?

[ImbarbaraB]

I’ve noticed now that there’s a parent of a child in my sons nursery who doesn’t let the teacher use sanitiser.

I also have another friend who refuses to use it when going into shops and won’t let her child wear it.

Does anyone know why you wouldn’t use it?

My psoriasis is starting to flare up on my hands from using too much sanitiser, and when the sanitiser gets in the cracked skin it bloody hurts. So excuse me if I don't use it 20xa day

I only use the hand sanitiser I buy. As some are too sticky or smell too strong and I don't want to risk transferring unknown liquids onto my power chair control panel.

It will be due to allergies and skin conditions. When we enter a shop I use sanitizer, my husband can’t and politely refuses as it removes the skin on his hands. His skin will burn red and itchy if he uses it. It’s agony for him.

I don't use the shops because my hands crack and bleed and dry out hugely with them (same with hospital soap etc) but I do carry and use my own in its place.

A friend of mine is deathly allergic to alcohol so she objects. has a specialised one she carries round with her

DD was advised not to use it due to her hands cracking and bleeding. We also now take our own, and no-one seems to mind. We use the BodyShop ones, which seem to be less aggravating. She also puts pure aloe on her hands every night, and that has really helped.

I refuse to let my son use school's so send my own in. His skin cracks if he uses one that disagrees with him and open wounds are hardly helpful for infection control.

Some people have reactions and others object to the alcohol in many sanitizers.

There are also people who use stupid phrases like ‘chemical nasties’ and they tend to make poor choices about a lot of things.

After a week if being back in school my dd hands were red raw, her skin was dry and flaking off. It took weeks for them to go back to normal and lots of trips to the pharmacy for creams and I had to buy expensive hypoallergenic hand sanitizer for her to use in school.
So she only uses her own now, and I won't allow anything else to be applied to her.

My kids hate the hand sanitiser at school they said it smells like onions 🤷‍♀️

I don’t use them because I don’t want to.

My 2dc can't use sanitizer. They have dry sensitive skin and the alcohol caused sores on their hands which was extremely painful.

I buy this special non alcohol version of hand sanitiser for my son to protect his skin as he gets eczema.
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It triggers my eczema so I'm not putting it on. And tbh, I think the shop sanitisers are hygiene theatre anyway so I'm not worried about it. I don't lose sleep over it.

Plastic.

I'm allergic, I use my own that I know I'm fine with.

My small child has very significant eczema and sanitiser triggers him really badly. His dermatologist has been clear that he should never use it.

Hand gel can aggravate hand eczema. I have hand eczema and it's really bad but I do use it because I want to. I don't use sanitiser provided by any shops etc. I use my own. Some are less harsh than others. Alcohol free foams are available too.

eczema

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7320712/

My mum is horribly allergic to it. She ended up with weeping, bleeding hands in the first lockdown and GP told her never to use it again. She has a skin condition on her hands anyway (like eczema but not).

We'd stopped using it before the pandemic. I'd seen a programme where it showers that it was worse than soap as the bacteria could form more quickly again compared to those who had used soap- I may not have explained that well! I just think it's not as good as people think and hated the fashion of shoving it in schools.

It seems a necessary evil now so we use it again. The waste is horrendous though

Because it’s pointless in the case of an airbourne virus. And because a biochemist pointed out to me that it kills off all the good bacteria on your skin as well as the bad ones. Over and over again.

@BertieBotts

I would use it if going through a hospital/doctors surgery.

I don't use it at the entrance to every shop. That seems overkill if I'm going into several shops. It doesn't feel nice on your hands and if you lick them /eat with your hands I worry about what I'm ingesting! I wouldn't put it on DS 3 for this reason.

I would use it if it's been a while since I could wash my hands.

Tbf, not being in the habit of licking your hands when out and about is generally a good idea.

eczema - though we've been lucky and it's not been a huge issue.

However some of the shop sanitaies are sticky and sometime itchy and have to be washed off quickly- plus sometimes mutiple types from going into differenet shops seem to react and can cause an unpleasant reaction.

I won't let the nursery put it on my daughter because when they were using it her hands were bleeding with broken and dry skin. There is no need for it at a nursery. Soap and water will suffice