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May 18, 2008
'This is not a baby wipe'
Above, the sticker that adorns the top of each and every dispenser of CaviWipes™ — disinfecting towelettes "pre-saturated with CaviCide®" and used in the OR to clean surfaces and objects between cases.
Pretty scary name, CaviCide.
It kills just about everything it touches, hence the lurid warning sticker and label (below).
The thing is that the dispenser and the towelettes look exactly like actual baby wipe dispensers and towelettes.
I wonder how many times they somehow end up on a baby's bottom in spite of all the cautions.
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Wow! Reading through that description, it looks dangerous! I'm glad they are keeping that away from babies...who knows what would happen if a common antimicrobial agent were introduced to the dirtiest spot on a kid!
More than likely, either they realize they can sell these at a much higher cost to hospitals if it seems dangerous and chemical -- even if 99.99999% is exactly the same thing.
I remember helping a friend stock a lab a few years back...she found that almost anything she needed could be bought for a tiny fraction of the price if it were 'off-label'. Baby wipes were one thing she used instead of things like this. Sam's Club and grab a case. Tons of other things that were EXACTLY the same item, just purposed differently.
NIH got a little irked when they inspected to see how her grant was going...I guess the fact that she was making a lot of progress without having to waste gov't money was offensive to someone trying to justify their own position.
Anyhoo...
Posted by: clifyt | May 19, 2008 2:25:14 PM
The incredibly-long-named active ingredient (besides isopropyl alcohol) in these things, "diisobutylphenoxyethoxyethyl dimethyl benzyl ammonium chloride", would appear to be better known as benzethonium chloride.
I know nobody asked. I just typed out that huge name in order to search for it, and feel as if I might as well tell someone.
Posted by: Daniel Rutter | May 19, 2008 11:51:54 AM
It's hopeless. People NEVER read product warning labels, or little caution notes that you leave around, or any of that. (Like if you went on vacation and stuck a real visible note to the toilet seat that says "DO NOT leave toilet seat up! Cat will jump in!!" and you get back to find the seat up and a sopping wet cat who's learned how to drink his water out of the toilet bowl and ONLY out of the toilet bowl.) You could write it on fluorescent, dayglo, drop-dead orange paper, with an inch-wide Sharpie, and they'd never see it.
Maybe these will toughen up babies' butts. A new phrase: "Tough as a baby's bottom!" Or, they could maybe put the ones intended for butt-wiping in a dispenser shaped like an little upended baby's butt, and the killer wipes in a container formed like some demonic entity or something, I don't know... It wouldn't matter. Hell, some women probly use them to remove their makeup.
Ist das nicht ein baby vipe?
Ja, das ist ein baby vipe!
Posted by: Flautist | May 18, 2008 6:29:14 PM
This sounds exactly like what I want to wipe my ass with. So I agree...put my face on the pack and keep the babies away from it. I can never find my nice aloe wipes in the baby isle at the grocery store anyways because some friggen momma decided junior needed it. To hell with that...
Posted by: clifyt | May 18, 2008 5:15:36 PM
