On 06 Feb 2009 13:04:38 GMT, (Andrew
Gabriel) wrote:

In article ,
Huge writes:
On 2009-02-05, Andrew Gabriel wrote:

When the reason for this came to light, all sorts of
people started claiming skin problems too.

You've obviously never seen the state of my wife's hands if she handles
some washing powders.

One family member works in a hospital, and almost certainly
due to frequently using alcohol hand wipes, she finds she
can't handle detergents anymore. She can't even go near a
decent washing up liquid and has to use one of the
eco-doesn't-actually-dissolve-any-grease ones.

Sensitivity to alcohol wipes is more common than many think and often
ignored by administrators and infection control specialists. I have a
family member working in a hospital who has problems with the alcohol
hand wipes but in this case they cause eczema. She's stopped using
them and now only uses soap, massively less convenient when treating
patients but she really has no other option.


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