Staying clean in camp showers

avanti wrote:
Just as some folks prize long, leisurely hot showers, I prize our private, clean, intimate wet bath. Campground showers give me the hebie-jeebies because they feel gross, not because I see them as particularly dangerous.

When our kids were small, my wife and I used to argue about the merits of various activities and cleanliness practices wrt the health of their developing immune systems.

I also agree with Dr Solo and we are farmers going back generations, as well as medical backgrounds and have no problem sticking our hands and arms in places, well........ you get the picture. Our kids from small babes have peanut butter tasting, roll and eat dirt or suck on stones off the land, chomp on an odd dog biscuit or similar and experience many things parents today would be horrified about, and so on to build up immune systems naturally. None of us appear to have any of the common allergies of today, apart from an odd hay fever susceptible person during harvest time.

However I agree with Avanti it's the "gross feel" of public restrooms, and unfortunately in this day and age with the world through air travel having become one, the spread of diseases through the largest organ we have our skin. If using a public restroom is an absolute must, none of us in our family ever touch handles, seats or even outside elevator switches, door entries and escalator handles. No we don't carry sanitizer with us and sometimes stink of fish, horses and other animals we pet and enjoy at times. I'd rather deal with ring worm any day over some of the illnesses we've seen folks in hospital come into spread through contamination from other human beings. OCD you think? Let's see how you feel when a close family member becomes very sick from contamination through others bad hygiene which has become prevalent in the last couple of decades plus moreso than ever when I was a child it appears. Even when our kids were growing up their friends never washed their hands before sitting to eat at our table unless we reminded them, so it begs the question what do parents teach today = monkey see, monkey do comes to mind.