There are bugs everywhere!

[threadwalker]

I just got back from a work conference that was on aseptic processing. In layman's terms, that means making stuff in a super-duper clean area that has practically no micro organisms and no loose particles.

So people shed 200,000 particles a day on average. Or was it 200,000 bacteria in a person's mouth? I forget. The number was huge and I was surprised. But wait, there's more. Half the weight of human biological waste is actually micro organisms. So the proverbial 10 lb of C*** is really 5 lb of C*** and 5 lb of bugs. It was totally gross. It got a lot more technical and specific from there and I was fascinated with the environmental monitoring stuff ... which is good because writing that up is one of my next tasks.

However, I suddenly want to go home and wash all the sheets and go over everything with anti-bacterial wipes, including the kids. Bleck! Yuck! Phooey! It certainly suddenly explains the foot-mouth-hand disease we all got a few years ago and which almost nixed the husband and Nana. I was watching my baby drool yesterday and wanted to dab her chin with alcohol wipes.

Feh! We are DEFINITELY not alone. Only it's not aliens from space, it's micro-organisms!!!

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[beanolc.livejournal.com]

Heh heh... I felt that way after lab day in my General Microbiology class as an undergrad. We got swabs and petrie dishes, and I took cultures of the house I was living in. One would think that four girls would be clean...

Shudder. I haven't cut food directly on the counter since then.

Don't get me started...

[fighter-chick.livejournal.com]

I'm not allowing anyone into this house until I've washed all the blankets and hosed down all the furniture with Lysol or wiped it with antibacterial wipes.

*koff**koff*