Anyone noticing minor changes/problems in daily life?

[Aristus]

56. Oh yeah, I've been going crazy with Eucerin skin cream every night.

I recommend it to my patients as a moisturizer; it's formulated for baby skin, so it's nice and gentle.

Well, the coronavirus causes respiratory illness, so I don't think getting it under the skin due to dry cracked hands is necessarily a problem. But other organisms that are not harmful anywhere else can become pathogenic if they get under the skin.

Your hands and nails are covered with strep and staph, and as long as they're on the outside, it's perfectly fine; it's normal skin flora, you want it to be there; it keeps bad bacteria away. But if it gets under the skin, boom, secondary infection. That's why scratching an itch can be bad for you.

My dad was a surgical nurse. Decades of daily scrubbing with harsh surgical soap left his hands red and rough in a way that no moisturizer could fix...