Settle a GERM DISPUTE!

[tinkinpink84]

So my theory is that with the 5 second rule. You can drop something like a gumball on the floor and pick it up and it is less likely that germs will attach themselves to it. But if you drop something such as like a wet food like say a slice of watermelon on the wet side on the floor that is more apt to pick up germs.
See puddles (doglover) believes that she could get germs because the dentist had gloves on. Dry gloves we presume and dropped something on the floor then picked that item up off the floor and continued working in her mouth. And also was going through paper work, with the same gloved hands mind you from a file thats been touched by who knows how many people , sitting on the floor etc.
I beleive its highly unlikely that anything could be contracted. That things are easily passed through wet surfaces. Like dropping a wet food item on the floor you wouldn't want to eat it but you drop your dry gumball on the floor more likely then not its ok to eat and you wont get any sort of germs because the germs have nothing to stick to.

[3timesoccermom]

I don't think germs need adhesive. That's disgusting to eat something off the floor. Shoes walked on that floor. Shoes that trod over many surfaces, including, probably, over dried animal feces and lots of other interesting and unsanitary things. Five second rule or not I'm not eating off the floor.

The DENTIST did this??? UNbelievable. Doglover should fire her dentist and tell them why. I'm with her.

[momof2inohio]

The dentist should not be picking stuff off of the floor and then putting his/her gloved hands back in her mouth. Period.

[tinkinpink84]

Well that part is said and done. But she is afraid that she has gotten germs from this. I think she will be fine. It is highly unlikely.

[tinkinpink84]

Like what I am trying to say is that it is highly unlikely that she picked something up from this incident.

[hrhmom]

I think they did something on that on the show Myth Busters.

[tinkinpink84]

yeah thats where i remember seeing something about dry versus wet things with germs...

[Doglover8180]

Tink - just accept it - people are siding with me on this issue..... I should feel glad but yet I had the germy gloved hands in my mouth so I don't really feel like I won much.

[CW&M Mom]

Germs don't need a wet surface..it depends on the germs.

Germs are bacterium, viruses and fungi and each have there own set of rules..and each individual bacterium, virus or fungi can do differently from one another. So the cold virus actually acts differently then the influenza virus.

However odds are there wasn't anything that harmful on the floor.

However again..what the dentist did was gross. he should of changed his gloves.

[JulieDB]

Germs are everywhere. We don't eat stuff that fell on the floor unless it is something that can be washed. Like a raw carrot. But if we drop a prescription pill on the floor? Suck it up and take it anyway, germs or no germs because we can't get another one.