do you guys wash your hands after handling your snake

[EasternGirl]

Yep...me too...I'm kind of a fanatic about it because I am very susceptible to stomach viruses and samonella...I had it once and it is not something that you want to have...believe me! I am in nursing school and the little trick we have is to wash hands up to the elbows while singing happy birthday twice...that is supposed to be the amount of time it takes to kill all of the germs. I do believe that the sanitizers work too, as we have them all over school, in all of the labs, and in the hospital. But I always wash my hands with soap and hot water after handling the snakes.

[infernalis]

Yep...me too...I'm kind of a fanatic about it because I am very susceptible to stomach viruses and samonella.

I rarely get sick at all, I worry more about contaminating the poor snakes, or their food with MY germs.