body fluid in hotel rooms, black light?

I saw the primetime special regarding body fluids found in hotel rooms. You know anything can happen in closed doors.

My family and I love to make small trips and we stay in hotels which are rated 3 stars or more... I had unfortunate experience of finding numerous hair, what seems like body hair!!!! YUCK! What seems like fresh sheets had all these hairs. DISGUSTING!!!

I'm not sure any hotel can guarantee a "BLACK LIGHT CLEAN". But during primetime special, it did mention that by staying between the white sheets should be clean of any body fluids. I'm fine with that!!!

But after that experience I am toying with the idea of purchasing a black light to make sure my sheets are really clean and hopefully the bathroom.

thought????

Original Post by wsamemoon:

I saw the primetime special regarding body fluids found in hotel rooms. You know anything can happen in closed doors.

My family and I love to make small trips and we stay in hotels which are rated 3 stars or more... I had unfortunate experience of finding numerous hair, what seems like body hair!!!! YUCK! What seems like fresh sheets had all these hairs. DISGUSTING!!!

I'm not sure any hotel can guarantee a "BLACK LIGHT CLEAN". But during primetime special, it did mention that by staying between the white sheets should be clean of any body fluids. I'm fine with that!!!

But after that experience I am toying with the idea of purchasing a black light to make sure my sheets are really clean and hopefully the bathroom.

thought????

I'd say "the mind of man cannot bear such things as the truth," like Lovecraft would say... but now that your curiosity is aroused, there's no stopping you. May the gods have mercy upon your soul for what you are about to unleash ;)

My thought - ignorance is bliss!  I don't even want to know!

If you're really concerned, bring your own sheets!

You remind me of my mother-in-law. That's not really a good thing. My mother-in-law is actually germphobic. There's a whole bunch of things she won't do. For example, she won't touch menus without gloves.

You know, I think, that if you buy a black light, that you'll find what you're afraid of. What will you do, then?

I think you need to do what you need to do, but... understand that you're opening a Pandora's Box if you buy the black light and the one who'll get most upset about it is you, and really.. only you. Or whatever family members you might make upset through your phobias.

Well said HK

Buying your own travel sheets would probably be cheaper...

If you did bring a black light and see how nasty the sheets are, what would you do?

I'd suggest that if you get another hotel room and the sheets look used or dirty in any way to just call the desk and have them bring you clean sheets.  Maybe they accidentally forgot to change the sheets in your room. Maybe a couple of employees snuck in there and did their thing and didn't change the sheets.

I really don't think you want to purchase a black light and find all the real evidence in a hotel room.

okay guys well said, I hear all of you... honestly, I do not call myself a germaphobe.... but after being given a room, with nice crisp sheets......... body hairs.... passing it off a cleaned room. It makes me think ... how many times have I gotten in these nice "clean" crisp sheets... which they might not have been changed at all...........

But all thought and points have been noted... And I thank all of your for your honesty!

 

Original Post by hkellick:

You remind me of my mother-in-law. That's not really a good thing. My mother-in-law is actually germphobic. There's a whole bunch of things she won't do. For example, she won't touch menus without gloves.

Maybe mention to her that she is carting around 10x more bacterial cells than she is cells of her own, each and every day? I'm sure a few more won't hurt.

I am like the anti-germaphobe and couldn't care less about other people's body fluids. I did, however, buy a black light to find pee stains on the carpet so I can vouch for it working on finding body fluids. Bloody dogs.

I have very little tolerance for germaphobe type of behavior as well. My SO is a food safety freak and it makes me crazy. I like my pizza to sit out all night so I can have room temp pizza for breakfast. He puts it in the fridge almost immediately. Argggghhhh!

 

Just never touch the bedspreads.  Fold 'em right down to the bottom of the bed and sit on the sheets. 

At least the sheets do get washed!

::giggle::

 

Better bring along the rubber gloves to fold down the bedspreads!

That's OK - I keep anti-bacterial gel in my pocketbook for just such instances.

Original Post by nomoreexcuses:

Just never touch the bedspreads.  Fold 'em right down to the bottom of the bed and sit on the sheets. 

At least the sheets do get washed!

::giggle::

 

 I seriously throw the bedspreads on the floor as soon as I get to a hotel room.  Then I kick them into the most out of the way corner.

My husband insists that hotels must wash the bed spreads.  It turns into a long drawn out debate each time we stay in a hotel.

I'm not a germaphobe at all.  I'm just icked out by the thought of someones dried body fluids resting against my skin all night.

I also check for bed bugs on the hotel mattresses before I will sleep on them.  Bed bugs are making a come back and I have no interest in bringing some home with me.

Gems and "icky" things are all around us...all the time...

Whats really the danger of a body hair? or dried body fluids? Getting some disease or something like that is very very rare (if even possible?).  So, theres no real risks.... its not going to hurt you and you will never even know its there.

Gems on door handles or menus? Who cares? Unless you are an infant or very old with immune deficiencies, you wont be harmed (you are surrounded by MUCH worse constantly...)

Same with peoples crazyness with food. People who nuke their steaks or cook their eggs to death out of some fear of getting diseased...

The normal human body isnt as fragile and susceptible to harm from these kinds of threats as some people would have you think....

Original Post by juliemae2:

Original Post by nomoreexcuses:

Just never touch the bedspreads.  Fold 'em right down to the bottom of the bed and sit on the sheets. 

At least the sheets do get washed!

::giggle::

 

 I seriously throw the bedspreads on the floor as soon as I get to a hotel room.  Then I kick them into the most out of the way corner.

My husband insists that hotels must wash the bed spreads.  It turns into a long drawn out debate each time we stay in a hotel.

I'm not a germaphobe at all.  I'm just icked out by the thought of someones dried body fluids resting against my skin all night.

I also check for bed bugs on the hotel mattresses before I will sleep on them.  Bed bugs are making a come back and I have no interest in bringing some home with me.

 Having worked in a couple different hotels, (including a 4-star hotel), I can say that yes, hotel bedspreads are washed...about once a month.  The sheets are washed daily.

I do remove the bedspread whenever I stay in a hotel. 

I don't know if it was the same special, but I happened to catch a story on TV (unfortunately, while I was on a business trip and staying in a hotel!) about the uncleanliness of some hotel rooms. There was a hidden camera that caught the maid using the same towel to wipe down the sink, shower, toilet, and then (GAG!!) the drinking glasses. I almost vomited. At the same, I have been staying in hotels my entire life....I have drank out of the glasses, laid on the bedspreads, slept in the sheets, etc, and, amazingly, I am still alive! :) Seriously, sometimes I'd rather not know the truth....

never put your bags on the beds. easiest way to pick up hitchhiking bed bugs.

Original Post by argylesweater:

never put your bags on the beds. easiest way to pick up hitchhiking bed bugs.

 How does one look for bed bugs? Lift the mattress? Are they visible?

Once body fluids dry, they just flake right off the sheets - no worries!

sometimes, if body fluids have enough time to dry and are far enough into the material-no matter how CLEAN the sheets may be there can still be a STAIN. If that makes sense....so basically its just the color, not the germs anymore-so the sheets may be more clean than they look under a black light. i agree that buying a black light will just make things seem worse than they are.