Comments on: Top 10 Swine Flu FAQs

By: Rex

Rex — Mon, 11 May 2009 23:40:20 +0000

Mike you are right about Triclosan being in ALCOHOL BASED hand sanitizers like Purell. Triclosan is a bad deal! Triclosan is classified as a pesticide by the EPA. Studies with Triclosan have also shown that it disrupts hormone levels in the body. Triclosan can also combine with chlorine present in tap water to form chloroform gas which is a cancer causing agent. So once again I say, no one should use Purell or ANY ALCOHOL BASED hand sanitizer.There is NO Triclosan in SafeHands.

Worse yet, alcohol-based products can actually increase the risk of exposure to the same pathogens that they were designed to kill. I did a lot of checking when I decided to use hand sanitizer. Unlike the UNHEALTHY Purell product, SafeHands alcohol-free hand sanitizer kills 99.99% of disease causing germs and fungi in 15 seconds, including SARS, free-living bacteria such as TB, E-coli, and Salmonella, as well as antibiotic-resistant VRE, RSA and viruses including HIV and Hepatitis A & B.

So with that I am sticking with the best hand sanitizer out there SafeHands!

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 02 May 2009 18:35:16 +0000

Read the back of any hand sanitizer/soap before using it. Antibacterial chemicals such as Triclosan, found in most antibacterial soaps, only kills bacteria. They will not kill viruses, such as Orthomyxoviruses like Influenza A. Rex, a hand sanitizer like Purell will not help much against swine flu or any other viruses.

By: HotBeans

HotBeans — Fri, 01 May 2009 19:01:18 +0000

I saw that same animated map website as well. It’s pretty cool.

It shows that the spread of this flu is slow… but it is increasing. It’ll be interesting to see how it spreads.

By: John

John — Fri, 01 May 2009 15:35:19 +0000

I found this awesome animation of the swine flu spreading across the United States (http://www.swine-flu-map-animation.com/). There have been a number of map tools created with Google maps, but this is the first one I've seen that offers an animation. Very interesting to watch... It appears to update every morning with new CDC data.

By: Rex

Rex — Thu, 30 Apr 2009 17:57:58 +0000

Using a NON ALCOHOL based hand sanitizer such as Safe Hands Pro is the most excellent degerming charastics of all hand sanitizers. It is a great way to help protect from the deadly Swine Flu. DON’T USE alcohol based hand sanitizers such as Purell!
Look below at part of a universal precaution test between Alcohol-Free hand sanitizer and alcohol-containing hand sanitizer.
* the Alcohol-Free hand sanitizer formula had a greater sustained degerming activity than the alcohol-containing hand sanitizer formula,
* the alcohol-containing hand sanitizer became less effective with repeated use and irritated the hands of subjects, and
* the Alcohol-Free hand sanitizer formula became more effective without irritation after repeated use.
Not to mention a host of other negative effects associated with alcohol-containing hand sanitizers, like toxicity, sticky, flammable, irritating and more!
I really love Safe Hands Pro and never leave home without it! With so many dangerous viruses and deadly illnesses in our world such as SARS, free-living bacteria such as TB, E-coli, and Salmonella, as well as antibiotic-resistant VRE, RSA and viruses, including HIV and Hepatitis A & B you need to use the best, safest and most effective hand sanitizer possible. I buy mine from a company called Crystal Tip, 800-944-3939. This is the very best tip I have. Rex