Gambling & Germs

My husband and I just returned from Atlantic City on a little two day gambling vacation. The entire time I was thinking about germs. As we were confined to a small 28 passenger jet where people were coughing and sneezing and leaning our heads on pillows or on the backrests, who knows what was living on them?

In the casino, my husband went straight to the craps table and I went to the slots. Probably trillions of germs on those machines alone. People are drinking, smoking, eating, coughing, sneezing, and touching so many parts of those machines in order to play. These casinos are open 24 hours a day so cleaning of the machines doesn't happen very often. I checked and never saw any kind of cleansing solution for the public to use anywhere other than the regular soap in the restrooms.

As far as our room goes (Caesars Palace) we certainly had no complaints. But research has shown that dust mites live in the pillows, mattresses, bedspreads, carpeting, drapes and upholstered furniture of which we touched or used all of these.

I could, of course, go on and on about our contact with germs over this weekend. Tomorrow I will write about ways to avoid, eliminate or cleanse ourselves from harmful germs.