How many times do you wash your hands?

[Nutmegger]

I wash, on average, six times a day. Three times before each meal and three thoughout the day. Some have called me OCD though....

[HEyHEY]

1. Probably 15 to twenty

[gollygee]

2. A ton of times

after I use the bathroom, before I do any food preparation for me or my daughter or husband, and after I help my daughter in the bathroom, and if they get dirty for any other reason.

[Texasgal]

3. I'm an RN...

I wash my hands close to 100 times a day!

[Nutmegger]

4. LOL, that makes sense!

I recently read that doctors are slipping on washing, how disgusting!

[Texasgal]

9. Oh yeah... I've seen Doctors

touch patient after patient in an ER setting without washing.

Ofcourse, we use gloves frequently, but I hate the way my hands smell after I take the glove off.

I work in a private surgical practice now, and I only use drugs when there are pathogens clearly around... hence... washing my hands so frequently!

[Left Is Write]

5. I never counted.

I wash my hands after using the restroom, after cleaning the catbox, before preparing and eating food, after handling raw meat, before volunteering in the classroom - I suppose it pretty well adds up.

I'm fairly certain that washing one's hands six times a day does not qualify as OCD.

[Nutmegger]

6. No I don't think so

That's coupled with that fact that I know how to open a door with my elbow. My peers view that as "odd".

[LeftyMom]

7. Easily 20 or more

I have 4 year old boy, which necessitates touching nasty things far too often.

[yewberry]

8. Dozens, anyway. I work with children.

And what drippy little germ factories they are, too.

[Crazy Dave]

10. I always have plenty of the hand sanitizer pumps around me

At work, in the car and in a few rooms in the house. Never too far away.

[Nutmegger]

12. I've been using some of that too

Good when I'm in a pinch and there's no faucet around.

[ismnotwasm]

11. I'm a nurse

I'll keep count for you if you like...At work generally everytime I enter a room and everytime I leave it. Sometimes I'll use that alcohol hand wash they say is just as good, but It's not effective on certain "bugs"

As a gross aside...they did a study on a certain organism that seemed to be spreading through a certain hospital. They found the culprit was the doctors ties dangling down when they examined patients. Big EWWW factor.
I don't even let my stethoscope dangle anymore. And I clean that a lot too.

Wash away! It's much better than not washing. Trust me.

[Nutmegger]

14. Ewwwwww...

that's nasty. I can't get that image out of my head! EEWWWWWWW!!!

Someone I use to work with told me that the alcohol based hand sanitizers didn't work at all. I really didn't believe them then and still don't.

Edit: Damn typo...

[Nikia]

13. I work with food and chemicals at work so I wash often

I have to protect the product from whatever germs I may have picked up. I have to protect myself after handling chemicals.
I am always suspicious of fast food workers with soft, smooth hands. I almost freaked out at Subway for that reason.

[WCGreen]

15. I am really suseptable to infecions....

So I wash all the time...

In fact, I have a sink hooked up...

No I carry the hand stuff with me....