Touching the remedy

[Liz Hennel]

I don't prohibit patients from touching their own remedy. If the remedy begins to act through the skin, well so be it - it is for them! However, it is a social propriety not to touch the remedy for another person - or if your own hands are contaminated.
I have always understood the medicating of remedies to be rather robust, not a thin lick of coating, and have never believed it to be easliy rubbed off. It just doesn't add up to me.
Interestingly, when I give a remedy to one of my animals I do handle it - it is the only way to get this particular animal to take the remedy - it acts on him, not me (it is not"my" remedy). But I do wash my hands carefully before and after.
I believe that some pharmacy staff can become very sensitive to remedies, because of the nature of their work, and so handling is avoided at all costs - for their own as well as our safety. However, inadvertant olfaction may also be an issue here.
Liz

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