Is it rude to blow your nose in an office cubicle?

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This is where that suction machine becomes invaluable. The amount of mucous from a neti pot is very small compared to what this machine can get out. I think this kind of procedure should be routine for chronic sinus sufferers. You might want to see a doctor who has one of these machines. I plan on seeing if I can have this done regularly.

I will have to check into this. It's intriguing.

 

[maxiesmom]

The biggest issue for me would be whether the blower uses hand sanitizer afterward.

I am amazed at the number of people I see blowing who just keep right on going without cleaning hands.

And I don't know anyone who does run to the bathroom to wash their hands. As long as you are not squishing anything out onto your hands, but keep it all in the tissue, I don't see the point. But I also work someplace where we have 1 bathroom over 2 stories, so the people who work downstairs can't run upstairs to he bathroom to wash all of the time. They are not allowed to leave their work area without someone covering for them.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

And I don't know anyone who does run to the bathroom to wash their hands. As long as you are not squishing anything out onto your hands, but keep it all in the tissue, I don't see the point. But I also work someplace where we have 1 bathroom over 2 stories, so the people who work downstairs can't run upstairs to he bathroom to wash all of the time. They are not allowed to leave their work area without someone covering for them.

I, personally, prefer to wash, but hand sanitizer is an acceptable solution. Really, though, it should be one or the other. How often do you blow your nose that the tissue stays completely intact and none of the snot gets on your fingers? Or your face, and then you wipe it, etc. Not every time.

 

[goofyintoronto]

I, personally, prefer to wash, but hand sanitizer is an acceptable solution. Really, though, it should be one or the other. How often do you blow your nose that the tissue stays completely intact and none of the snot gets on your fingers? Or your face, and then you wipe it, etc. Not every time.

Yes! At least use hand sanitizer! Always! If you dont have access to a sink, fine. But every desk should have a sanitizer.

 

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Yes! At least use hand sanitizer! Always! If you dont have access to a sink, fine. But every desk should have a sanitizer.

http://www.cnn.com/2013/10/16/health/hand-sanitizer-toxic-upwave/

Bacteria is not always a bad thing. Those handsanitizers people love so much also kill off the good bacteria on your skin.

I'll stick with regular soap (meaning not antibacterial) and water thanks.

If I don't have handy access to sink then oh well, I'm not going to die because I blew my nose and didn't wash my hands.

 

[sam_gordon]

Bacteria is not always a bad thing. Those handsanitizers people love so much also kill off the good bacteria on your skin.

I do wonder if all the emphasis on "must stay clean"/"use hand sanitizer"/"prevent sickness above all costs" actually costs more in the long run. Instead of letting the body build up it's own immunity by getting sick, we try to head it off ALL. THE. TIME. So now if our bodies DO get sick, it's more serious/lasts longer.

I'm not a doctor or nurse, don't play one on TV, and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

 

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I do wonder if all the emphasis on "must stay clean"/"use hand sanitizer"/"prevent sickness above all costs" actually costs more in the long run. Instead of letting the body build up it's own immunity by getting sick, we try to head it off ALL. THE. TIME. So now if our bodies DO get sick, it's more serious/lasts longer.

I'm not a doctor or nurse, don't play one on TV, and didn't stay at a Holiday Inn last night.

I have always suspected this was the case.

The only antibacterial products I use at home are bathroom and kitchen cleaners.

Hand sanitizers are big at DD8's school. Every year there are bottles of hand sanitizer on the supply list. I will willingly buy the bottles on the list and send them to school but I have told her and her teachers that I would prefer it if she didn't use it. DD said last year that they used hand sanitizer about 7 times a day. Now, I'm sure that was a bit of an exaggeration but I'm also pretty sure the teacher was giving the kids sanitizer multiple times a day. I just can't see how that can be good for anybody.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Bacteria on a keyboard IS a bad thing.

Think of how many times you eat or drink as you're working. Bacteria that's sitting there grows over time, so you touch it, you eat and inhale it, and you also spread it around.

 

[ashley0139]

Hand sanitizer is terrible for you, and there is no way I will use it every time I blow my nose. I do wash my hands. But I hate hand sanitizer.

 

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Bacteria on a keyboard IS a bad thing.

Think of how many times you eat or drink as you're working. Bacteria that's sitting there grows over time, so you touch it, you eat and inhale it, and you also spread it around.

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So clean your keyboard on occasion. That doesn't mean use hand sanitizer every time you sneeze.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Some have obviously missed the point, but it's no skin off my nose.

Sanitize hands by either washing (my preference) or with sanitizer (if you so choose) or a wipe (if you can't get to a sink). Blowing nose and doing nothing is gross.

Not going to argue about it all day. (But no wonder so many germs are spread around.)

Hand sanitizer is terrible for you, and there is no way I will use it every time I blow my nose. I do wash my hands. But I hate hand sanitizer.

Mainstream, credible medical link for that?

 

[maxiesmom]

Yes! At least use hand sanitizer! Always! If you dont have access to a sink, fine. But every desk should have a sanitizer.

We don't have desks at work. We have register lanes, but that would still mean quite a bit of running back and forth.

Some have obviously missed the point, but it's no skin off my nose.

Sanitize hands by either washing (my preference) or with sanitizer (if you so choose) or a wipe (if you can't get to a sink). Blowing nose and doing nothing is gross.

Not going to argue about it all day. (But no wonder so many germs are spread around.)



Mainstream, credible medical link for that?

I'm not going to argue all day either. But I don't agree. By the way, we don't have desks at work either. At best we would have to walk across the store to get to a register lane. But that can be quite a ways too. Not to mention, getting stopped by customers that need help before you get there.

So I guess you will just have to deal with others sometimes being gross (in your opinion). Btw, if you work in a job where you handle money, that is far more gross than people blowing their nose with a tissue. So I have bigger germy things to worry about.

 

[goofyintoronto]

We don't have desks at work. We have register lanes, but that would still mean quite a bit of running back and forth.



I'm not going to argue all day either. But I don't agree. By the way, we don't have desks at work either. At best we would have to walk across the store to get to a register lane. But that can be quite a ways too. Not to mention, getting stopped by customers that need help before you get there.

So I guess you will just have to deal with others sometimes being gross (in your opinion). Btw, if you work in a job where you handle money, that is far more gross than people blowing their nose with a tissue. So I have bigger germy things to worry about.

blowing your nose and touching public surfaces that others would touch as well is pretty gross. This is how others get sick/how germs spread when one is sick. To blow your nose and not clean your hands is just wrong.

 

[maxiesmom]

blowing your nose and touching public surfaces that others would touch as well is pretty gross. This is how others get sick/how germs spread when one is sick. To blow your nose and not clean your hands is just wrong.

I don't agree. I can blow my nose and keep my hands clean. And as I pointed out, not all of us are lucky enough to always be near a bathroom, or have a desk handy to stash some hand sanitizer on.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

It is really hard for me to believe that any adult can argue it's ok not to clean hands after nose blowing.

I just did a small search for health recommendations from both pediatric and adult health resources and virtually *every one of them* recommends hand sanitization after nose blowing (your choice how).

 

[maxiesmom]

It is really hard for me to believe that any adult can argue it's ok not to clean hands after nose blowing.

I just did a small search for health recommendations from both pediatric and adult health resources and virtually *every one of them* recommends hand sanitization after nose blowing (your choice how).

Well believe it. Most everything we touch is covered in germs. I'm not going to let a little nose blowing freak me out. And many doctors will tell you hand sanitizers are way over used.

 

[Andtototoo]

Both my nearest coworker and I have chronic sinusitis and bad allergies. We blow our noses often, she much more than me. Believe me, we both would be in heaven if we could find a solution to our sinusitis, but we cannot. At this point, I think the others have just gotten used to it because they have no choice and know that we have tried every solution offered to us (my coworker has had 2 separate surgeries that cost her out of pocket $6K) and none of them have worked. We would really rather not be suffering with it and we'd really rather not inflict any of the sound on others.

But.

It's just not practical to run to the bathroom every single time. My coworker can honestly run through a box of tissues every single day. If we ran to the bathroom each time we had a sniffle, sneeze or nose-blowing incident, we would just have to set up our offices in the bathroom.

 

[Sparkly]

Why would it be rude? If you've got a stinking cold, you can't help getting a runny nose!

And I don't wash my hands every time I sneeze either- I'm not snotting into my hands, I'm sneezing into a tissue!

 

[JRawkSteady]

It's definitely not rude. Unless you'd rather watch your co-workers' nose leak all day. lol. I rarely have to blow my nose at work, but I never feel embarrassed to.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

Well believe it. Most everything we touch is covered in germs. I'm not going to let a little nose blowing freak me out. And many doctors will tell you hand sanitizers are way over used.

Not the doctors I work with.