Carpet cleaning and increased risk of disease

[authenticentrepreneur]

Are there any diseases (such as ALS) that carpet cleaners are at an increased risk of getting?

 

[The Great Oz]

Are there any diseases (such as ALS) that carpet cleaners are at an increased risk of getting?

Respiratory problems caused by inhaling any number of possible irritants.

Vacuuming without a HEPA filter can throw a lot of dust in the air, some powders are irritants, high residue cleaning can leave a lot of irritants, even going in and out of cold/warm, high/low humidity can cause breathing problems.

Otherwise, just watch the Baconaters.

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

Is board sarcasm a disease, or just an irritant?

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

Wear gloves when mixing chemicals and applying solvent spotters.
Respirator and gloves if acid tile cleaners are necessary.
Apply Common Sense as needed.

 

[hogjowl]

Go to one fest and then ask yourself if it’s worth it

 

[Kenny Hayes]

Brain damage from being on boards! Especially this one

 

[encapman]

Too many years pushing a non-glided wand...

 

[Desk Jockey]

Go to one fest and then ask yourself if it’s worth it

and?

 

[Hack Attack]

most of us have lichenification

 

[BIG WOOD]

Maybe splashing some waste water in your eye while rinsing out your recovery tank getting some sort of herpes etc? That was always my fear

 

[hogjowl]

and?

Do you think he’ll want to end up like us?

 

[Dolly Llama]

Are there any diseases (such as ALS)

I didn't think hanging around Lou Gehrig will give you ALS


BUTT...a coinkydink you mentioned it
the exec director of my company had to retire three years ago due to ALS .
He passed away today

..L.T.A.

 

[roro]

ADD especially those on the boreds

 

[Dolly Llama]

ADD especially those on the boreds

overthinking or just mental masturbation from someone that's unlikely to ever commit to be a new start up

My spidy senses suggests a little of both

.L.T.A.

 

[Walrus Gumboot]

Maybe splashing some waste water in your eye while rinsing out your recovery tank getting some sort of herpes etc? That was always my fear

OMG! Too Funny!

 

[Desk Jockey]

I didn't think hanging around Lou Gehrig will give you ALS


BUTT...a coinkydink you mentioned it
the exec director of my company had to retire three years ago due to ALS .
He passed away today

..L.T.A.

Sorry to hear that man.

 

[Dolly Llama]

Maybe splashing some waste water in your eye while rinsing out your recovery tank

eye or a cut/lesion on body or under bandaid
that might be a genuine concern for a bacterial infection.

'specially when not maintained/rinsed regular and gets ripe in summer with that lovely effluent smell....

..L.T.A.

 

[Hack Attack]

ADD especially those on the boreds

gives me something to do while prespray is percolating

 

[Jimmy L]

As we sit in our side by side recliners watching anything I want on TV (I'm a man damn it!) she comments about this and.............that.
Then for some reason the volume on the TV goes up..........pretty soon it is blaring. And she yells...............WHY IS THE TV SO LOUD?

And I yell back...................BECAUSE I CAN'T HEAR IT WITH YOU TALKING!

Sadly it's years of that sumbitch LOUD TM.

And years of listening to HEAVY METAL MUSIC!

And now it's my LOUD MOFO MOTORSICKLE!

BITCHES!

 

[Lee Stockwell]

get earbuds

 

[Cleanworks]

I'm lucky, my wife is dead in one ear and can't hear out of the other, unless I'm talking to a woman, then her hearing is razor sharp.

 

[Jimmy L]

And when I am in the old folks home I will just yell.

I SAID TO WIPE MY ASS!

Old and deaf I will be : )


SHAD UP LEE!

 

[Lee Stockwell]

I've got to clean in one of my assisted living facilities tomorrow, I'll check it out for you Jimmy, I know they already play OUR music...

 

[Desk Jockey]

And when I am in the old folks home I will just yell.

I SAID TO WIPE MY ASS!

Old and deaf I will be : )


SHAD UP LEE!

I plan to drip dry.

 

[Cleanworks]

And when I am in the old folks home I will just yell.

I SAID TO WIPE MY ASS!

Old and deaf I will be : )


SHAD UP LEE!

With an attitude to like that, they'll probably blow your nose for you too. Right after they wiped your ass.

 

[Old Coastie]

I've got to clean in one of my assisted living facilities tomorrow, I'll check it out for you Jimmy, I know they already play OUR music...

Yeah, well it is real music, not the atonal, monotonous pap being excreted these days.

 

[hogjowl]

Cervical?

 

[Jim Pemberton]

Are there any diseases (such as ALS) that carpet cleaners are at an increased risk of getting?

I've gotten to know carpet cleaners since 1975. The ones I knew then have mostly passed away, or are in advanced years.

I don't have any scientific data to give you, but I haven't noticed any more of them dying of cancer or any number of other diseases that might be connected with chemical exposure than people I know outside of the industry.

The deadlier stuff that my father worked with in the 1960's and 70's are unavailable to you now.
Considering that he worked extensively with carbon tetrachloride and perchlorethylene and survived amazes me still.

Why HE is alive at 88 is beyond me.