Potting plants could cause Legionnaires' disease - Page 4

 



"Sacha"  wrote ...
"Ian B"  said:

Carpet fitters and others use trousers with padded knees... and they are
cheap too... see...

http://www.industrial-workwear.co.uk/acatalog/Work_Trousers.html#a30

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Bob Hobden
W.of London. UK

 

There was an item on this on Radio 4 You and Yours, Friday lunch time.

They interviewed Prof Pennington, who poured scorn on the cut hand
theory, saying that a abteriea that effects the lungs would not get
there through the blood supply. He reckoned that it was breathing in the
dust that probably did it.

Both this prog and the telegraph article were confused between bought
potting compost and compost made using garden waste. The general theory
was that provided the heat in your compost heap was sufficient, the
thing would be destroyed. However it then went on about leaving half
used bags of damp comp0ost in warm places like a greenhouse, which would
provided ideal breeding conditions. One so called expert even said that
you should only buy the amount of compost you need each time, so that it
is fresh! Having seen the piles of bags in garden centres that have
faded in the sun (or perhaps light and rain!), I think he needs to get
real - besides if I am potting up half a dozen plant, where can I buy a
diddy amount of compost?

I think there is more danger to your life in crossing the road, than
there is inhandling compost (of whatever sort)!

Roger T

 


I've been using somewhat more expensive ones, day in day out for
decades. They're very difficult to wear out and quite comfortable -
there are ladies versions also available.
http://www.axminster.co.uk/dickies-dickies-high-performance-eisenhower-work=
-trousers-prod719547/
These aren't quite the same as mine but very similar.

Rod

 


I wonder if you suffer from dry skin?     When I had an itchy spot on my
shin which would scab over when I scratched it, my GP called it Ringworm
and gave me some Trimovate cream.     I used this for many months,
stopping when it cleared up, only for it to reappear.

After insisting on a second opinion, the GP referred me to a skin
specialist who snorted at "Ringworm", said that it was eczema, took a
scraping to be tested and prescribed Trimovate, but more importantly
Acqueous Cream, a bland moisturiser, and told me to use it on my shins.
This cured the problem permanently.

The skin is a good defence, but not when it is dry and cracked.
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Gordon H
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On 03/09/2010 17:55, Gordon H wrote:

I'm fairly sure it was fungal. It grew outwards in the classic circular
shape. It also itched like crazy. I had something similar once on my
shin though, where it grew similarly but outwards from a cut. I don't
have dry skin. The soil here must be laden with fungal spores - or I've
just become more susceptible to infection in my decrepitude! ;-)

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