Wash your hand, yes. Purell, NO! Purell was created for hospital and laboratory use and should not be used useless you have absoltely no other way to wash your hand.
Purell is used in hospitals because hospital employees are exposed to a LOT of "bad" germs all the time and they don''t necessarily have time to wash their hands after every doorknob or pen or elevator button that they touch. Purell kills both "good" and "bad" germs. Using Purell in a setting where there aren''t a lot of "bad" germs, like at home, is not really necessary because all you are killing off are the "good" germs. The "good" germs are protective because they can fight the "bad" germs themselves (very important especially in the digestive system. Everyone has "good" germs in your digestive system, but if you are on antibiotics for a long time, an imbalance occurs which is very detrimental...too few good germs, which allows any bad germ that comes in, to flourish). I believe Purell is an anti-microbial so it is an anti-bacterial, anti-viral, anti-fungal. Some believe it is useful to have anti-microbials in the kitchen because kitchens have a lot of "bad" germs (salmonella, e.coli, etc). I carry around Purell even when I''m not in the hospital because I ride subways and buses, and lots of sick people ride the subways and buses too. I don''t know if they''ve washed their hands before they touched the seat, pole, or door. So when I think of it, I pull the Purell out and use some b/c sometimes without thinking, I touch my lips or rub my nose, thereby transferring the cold virus or flu virus or who knows what else.
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