United States: A New Jersey woman who shops at thrift stores for good deals said that she developed a contagious virus from handling clothes put in bins.
Sarah Smithers became infected with bumps and blisters on her hands days after searching in Goodwill’s bargain bin for hours with hands uncovered.
Coxsackievirus or more commonly known as hand, foot and mouth disease can spread in the air through respiratory droplets from a person’s cough or sneeze.
According to the Daily mail, doctors and nurses aver, while it may sound ridiculous, these tiny droplets can survive on the cloths for hours and pass onto another man if the man puts the cloths to the mouth with an oozing sore present.
Editors are advised not to rummage through other people’s problems without washing hands.
As people advised her that she could get ‘so much good stuff for cheap’ Sarah decided to visit the local Goodwill store to fish in the bargain bins. Often referred to as hand, foot, and mouth disease – it is contagious, and catches up with affected individuals once they are around people such as when they sneeze.
Doctors and nurses explained that as crazy as it may sound, these droplets can remain on people’s clothing for a number of hours and are then passed on to the next person who might decide to touch their mouth or an open wound.
Experts are cautioned against digging through bins filled with unwashed strangers’ clothes without washing their hands thoroughly at the end. Sarah ventured to her local Goodwill store to wade through the bargain bins, having been told by many people that she could get ‘so much good stuff for cheap.’
A couple of things people fail to explain is that you can easily contract hand, foot, and mouth disease like I once did.
It earned her reactions from doctors giving advice to wear gloves while others advised to wash hands thoroughly after trying to dig.
So Dr Luke Maxfield, a dermatologist based in Tennessee said in response to Ms. Smithers’ account: Oof, Bad deal. Someone’s dirty hands to touch an object, you touch the object you touch your face and then hand, foot, and the mouth.
‘There’s really no treatment so just wash those hands and Dr Myro Figure who is anesthesiologist at the University of California Los Angeles added and the coxsackie virus is incredibly contagious and the virus cause flu-like symptoms such as sore throat diarrhea dehydration and also the loss of appetite.
Just because it cannot be treated with antibiotics, patients must ride it out until it resolves on its own typically seven to ten days.