Wash your hands!!

Countless, terribly countless times I have been in a public restroom when someone leaves their toilet stall and simply exits the room without so much as a glance at the wash basin. I am so skeeved by it I grab a paper towel just to touch the doorknob to exit!

This article scares me.

Not only are your germs gross, they can be toxic and even deadly.

A certain colleague of mine woke up one day with warts, yes WARTS on his arm. The doc said he contracted a wart-causing skin bacteria from one of his clients...from stretching them. Needless to say he uses towels to touch his clients. One dear physical therapy friend found a small but painful pimple on his thigh...a nasty staph infection that nearly killed him due to a misdiagnosis by his doc! I have a nasty plantar's wart on the bottom of my foot likely from a dirty pedicure or the gym shower. A friend of mine has impetigo. She's had it for over a year and it keeps coming back like a bad penny.

The point is, my friends, that we all need to take serious precautions when we're exposing our skin in public:

• keep your clothes clean and dry
• use clean towels after bathing
• don't share razors or water bottles
  
• cleanse with antibacterial soap
  
• wash your hands often and use hand sanitizer
  
• clean the gym machine you're using before and after each use
  
• avoid skin-to-skin contact: instead of the hi-five, do a fist bump!
• keep your skin clean by showering often-rather have dry skin than ringworm!
  
• wear flip-flops in your gym's shower. plantar's warts are painful!
  

Let's all clean up our act, shall we?