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Spitting
– Hocking up – and general extra bodily fluids could kill you – YUK!
Who
would have thought that my own body could kill me? After a simple surgery where the doctor opens
my skin and then does his procedure inside of me, my own body could kill me.
Wow!
Now
we all have watched the TV shows with Doctors operating in the sterile operating
room. You know with the masks on and their bodies covered completely. And before they don all the surgical clothing
they scrub their hands over and over again.
We all have come to know what should happen in the modern operating
room.
Yet,
after reading the article I read this morning about the new procedures that two
Vancouver Hospitals are trying out now, I am kind of more nervous about what
could happen to me. I didn’t know that I was potentially going to – or could
infect myself so easily just with my own bodily functions such as breathing.
The
one culprit that potentially lives in me is “staphylococcus aureus”. But there are also a few others that are more
and more common that possibly live rent free inside of me.
Where do they possibly live
you ask? Answer: In my nose and nasal
passages. Yuk!
That’s right, according to
the article that is provided today with “Light
therapy cuts post-surgery infections at Vancouver General Hospital”
Tara Carman of the Vancouver Sun explains that the new procedure is
done to the patient prior to the operation in a relatively simple way. They paint the inside of the nose with a blue
coloured solution. Then a light pulse is
turned on inside of the nose for a short two minute blast. And with that the “staphylococcus aureus”
and other possible resident bacteria are killed during the procedure.
It is a fascinating article
to read.
The procedure that is being
tested in two Vancouver Hospitals has reduced the post operation surgical
incision infections by 39%.
Even though the doctors are
gowned and masked, the patient isn’t and the potential killer lives inside his
or her own nose. In fact as I read the
stat that was suggested I wanted to blow my nose again. It is known that perhaps
25% of the population carries these little bugs in their nose.
Read the article in case I
have missed something.
I lived in Hong Kong where
everyone hocks and spits all the time.
It is more than gross for new visitors to the little country. The signs in certain places flatly demand – “No
Spitting!” – show the visitor to the city that someone didn’t like the gross
habit that so many have.
The long draw backwards of
the nasal cavity and then the assembling of a great Gob of mucus stuff in the
mouth, must be released outward away from the body. When it is collected and then held for a
second or so the body tells you “SPIT NOW!”
No amount of signage will stop people from hocking out the crap in their
heads.
In fact it may well be a way of ridding the body of the potential danger. Hmmm?
In fact it may well be a way of ridding the body of the potential danger. Hmmm?
It is another way what happens when we bring
all that bacteria into the mouth, hold it, swish it and then expel it. What is
left in the mouth area?
Side question… so you want a kiss from
someone… oh boy?
Another side thought, do you remember when
your mother repeatedly stated, “Don’t breath on your brother you will make him
sick!”
Long before the hospitals worked with the
medical companies to pulse light up your nose and make the body cleaner, we
already knew that we could make each other sick… and maybe even kill each
other.
After reading the article and during the
writing of this piece, I have blown my nose.
Then I went and washed my hands. Double Oh BOY! I am getting more
paranoid by the moment.
Now going back to Hong Kong and the people
that spit so much… and we ‘Out of Hong Kong people’ are grossed out so much by
the spitting. I asked a Chinese friend
of mine in Hong Kong about this excessive spitting and the oddity of it all.
His statement to me was not an answer but rather
an observation that the Chinese people think the Westerners to be even more
odd. They watched the Westerners that
have the same nose drainage that they do… take out a white hankie and then blow
the great Gobs of mucus into the hankie, returning the fine, white linen hankie
to their pocket or purse. And after it
is full at the end of the day they toss the wet (or sometimes dried) fine,
white, linen handkerchief into a pail to be washed by some poor person in the
family.
My friend asked me which was more gross, Gobs
of Snot spit into the ocean – or God of Snot carried in your own pocket making
the pocket and the purse slippery and wet as well?
Now mind you most people do not carry a
handkerchief any more… we do the “tissue thing’ and discard it… maybe even
using its few times over and over again to save a little $$.
Sorry if I soiled your day… ooops that should
read spoiled your day.
Read the article – it is amazing. And maybe you should go wash hands too. But kissing someone early in the morning –
not a good idea… or maybe ever again… oh boy!
~ Murray Lincoln ~
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