Get Virtual Care
For Businesses
About Us
A member asked:
Is there any concern for people handling your food with bandaids or scabs on their hands?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
Food server bandaid?: Is there any concern for people handling your food with bandaids or scabs on their hands? ANS: yes but if wearing gloves would be safer.
Answered 11/10/2016
895 views
Thank
Related Questions
A member asked:
At the store, the cashier had dried blood around fingernail and some cuts and scabs on his hand. Should I be concerned that he touched my groceries?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
Can Coronavirus spread by putting credit card in public cash machine and then not washing hands after handling it?
A doctor has provided 1 answer
A member asked:
How likely is it to get salmonella through a cut in your hand? I was handling unwashed chicken eggs.
A doctor has provided 1 answer
People also searched for:
Are there concerns when shaking hands with someone who has scabs or bandaids on their hands? I was introduced to someone who had cuts/bandaids on hand
Concerning restaurant food handling: Is any bacteria that is transferred from a person's dirty hands onto food destroyed by heat from an oven at all?
Can you get aflatoxin leaving pans with water in for several hours and then not cleaning them before using them to prepare food? Also from tea towels that I dried my hands in and didnt wash aft handling food that had been left out for several hour?
What can I do if someone was handling raw meat, rinsed their hand off with only water, and then got into many things in the kitchen? Should I be concerned?
At a bar a man hugged me then showed me his wounds from a fight. He had blood on his shirt and his hand was bleeding through bandaid- concerns for me?
Didn't find what you're looking for?
90,000 U.S. doctors in 147 specialties are here to answer your questions or offer you advice, prescriptions, and more.
Ask your questionMore of what we treat
Content on HealthTap (including answers) should not be used for medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment, and interactions on HealthTap do not create a doctor-patient relationship. Never disregard or delay professional medical advice in person because of anything on HealthTap. Call your doctor or 911 if you think you may have a medical emergency.
HIPAASecure
SOC 2 Type 2Certified
JCAHOAccredited
Download HealthTap
Video visit and message your doctor
