Thanks but I'll probably consider more than what's on the CDC website, since they seem to change things up on occasion which gets confusing for my simple caveman brain.
What about this?
Australian researchers have found that a strain of antibiotic-resistant bacteria is able to survive after being exposed to alcohol solutions
www.smithsonianmag.com
Even high-strength hospital disinfectant is losing its effectiveness against superbugs, scientists have warned, with bacteria learning to adapt to survive in the face of alcohol-based hand sanitisers.
www.sciencealert.com
Since the start of the coronavirus pandemic, scientists and governments have been advising people about the best hygiene practices to protect themselves. This advice has caused a significant surge in the sale and use of cleaning products and hand sanitisers. Unfortunately, these instructions...
phys.org
"Antimicrobials (including antibiotic, antiprotozoal, antiviral and antifungal medicines) are
important to our health. They help us fight against infectionsāparticularly if your immune
system is weak or compromised. However, some organisms (like bacteria) can change or
mutate after being exposed to an antimicrobial. This makes them able to withstand the
medicines designed to kill them. As the use and misuse of antimicrobials become more
widespread, the number of resistant strains increases. Infections that were once easily treated
are now becoming life threatening.
....
We usually (and correctly) associate antimicrobial resistance with the misuse of medications,
such as antibiotics. .... But bacteria can also acquire resistance after the inappropriate or excessive use of certain
chemicals, including cleaning agents. Diluting sanitising agents, or using them intermittently
and inefficiently, can provide a survival advantage to the most resistant strains. This ultimately
leads to greater overall resistance."
www.aaas.org
Most of these revolve around the same study. Then in the spirit of healthy debate (pun intended), other studies came out to say the opposite.
Till date no medication or vaccine is available to cope with the COVID-19 infection and infection rate is increasing drastically across the globe. Only preventive measures and healthy life style with efficient immune system have been suggested by ...
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
It has been observed that overuse of alcohol based hand sanitizer results antimicrobial resistance, which can put more burdens on already struggling healthcare professionals. Repeated exposure of disinfectant, antibiotics or other genotoxic chemicals to microbes tends them to get mutations through natural process that make them resistant to survive from repeated use of hand sanitizer (
Morgan, 2020).
Pidot et al., 2018 published report on antimicrobial resistant in
Enterococcus faecium against alcohol based hand rubs. Alcohol resistance in
E.
faecium was tested in 139 hospital isolates during 1997 to 2015 and results showed that
E.
faecium isolates after 2010 were 10 times more resistant to alcohol than older isolates.