Andrea Tran wrote about << an  LC who came down with
 Hepatitis A and all the babies she had seen in the days before she was
 diagnosed had to recieve immunoglobulin shots because at that time it
 was not her practive to glove before an oral exam, and of course being
 sick she couldn't remember which baby she had done an oral exam on so to
 be on the safe side they gave them all the shots.  It was traumatic for
 the LC, the parents and of course the babies.  >>


I don't spend a lot of hospital time, so straighten me out if I'm nuts, but
if I've been handling a baby, breathing on a baby, possibly handling mom's
breast that goes in the baby's mouth, is gloving my finger going to make ANY
difference relative to washing it in the transmission of Hepatitis?  I hadn't
thought of hepatitis as primarily disseminated through skin contact -- ???

Elisheva

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