Reply #25: What do you think about hand sanitizer?

[Heidi]

It's available here, but no one I know uses it. However, my mom (a retired first-grade teacher in the US) swears by it. I bet I wash my hands 50 times a day (before and after touching anything I give to/take from our cat, before and after toilet, before and after eating, before/after using my laptop, art supplies, etc.)

By the way, I'm NOT a clean freak by any means. But I have had only two serious colds since moving to Switzerland a decade ago -- and both of them came immediately after air travel and sleeping in an air-conditioned hotel room.