Pricing your Spa Menu is Not So Complicated

In this column, we will look at the actions of an entirely fictional massage therapist who is in a hurry and makes a few unfortunate errors in how she sets up her office for the day.

Meet Myrtle: Myrtle the massage therapist was running late on a Monday morning. Fortunately, she had started to launder her sheets and face cradle covers. She is conscientious about energy use, so she washed them all in cold water, but she used extra non-chlorine bleach, so they would be really clean. The wet laundry was placed in the dryer and she hoped her first client would not notice that the linen was still a little damp.

Myrtle hustled into her session room, but her table was marked with oily handprints - not the kind of impression she wanted to make. She grabbed a translucent bottle of 10 percent bleach solution off her open shelf and spritzed her table and quickly wiped it off with a paper towel.

She adjusted one fitted sheet, then realized that with six clients on the books, her time to dress her table between appointments would be extremely limited. So, she used an old trick: she layered the rest of the fitted sheets on top of the first, so she could simply peel them off one by one. She quickly folded the extra, slightly damp flat sheets and stacked them on her open shelves.

As Myrtle fitted her face cradle into the top of the table, she realized it was a little sticky. She grabbed an alcohol-soaked towelette. She quickly wiped down the face cradle before stacking six covers on it. Then she used the moist towelette to wipe her doorknob, the light switch plate, her bottle of lubricant and lastly, her own hands to greet her first client.

How many mistakes did Myrtle make? Let us look. Principles of Hygiene

Universal Precautions are a set of protocols that were introduced in 1987 (after HIV/AIDS and hepatitis B had become major public health issues) to create some uniformity in how professionals could limit contact with body fluids in the working environment. Standard precautions were added to include guidelines on how to avoid all potentially harmful body fluids. Obviously, massage therapists are unlikely to be exposed to plural fluids, but it is important to note that sweat and tears are fluids that massage therapists are exposed to most often. -

The methods that infectious agents use to jump the gap from one host to another have been exhaustively studied. The process essentially boils down to three issues: a reservoir or source of the infectious agent, a mode of transport, and a susceptible new host. Possible reservoirs can include other humans, or inanimate habitats like contaminated computer keyboards, foods or cash that may be handled by hundreds of people. The susceptibility of a new host depends on several variables, from species to inborn immunity, to variable resistance. Finally, the mode of transport can be direct or indirect through the air with respiratory secretions, or by way of an intermediate objects, like a doorknob or a light switch.

The benefits of good hygienic practice go beyond a sense of professionalism. Massage therapists work with skin-to-skin contact, and the high risk of picking up an inadvertent infection, or of spreading one to another client. If Myrtle had the following information, she could improve her hygienic practices, and reduce the risk for harm to herself and her clients.

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2. Laundry 1. Standard laundering has good antimicrobial effect with water temperatures between 22 C-25 C, if the detergent is used according to the directions. 2. If chlorine bleach is added to the wash, it becomes most active at temperatures above 62.7 C. 3. Laundry must not be left damp: mildew can begin growing within 24 hours. 4. Clean laundry should be wrapped in plastic, or stored in a clean, closed container.

3. Session Room 1. For cleaning high-touch surfaces the Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends a freshly mixed 10 percent bleach solution. Bleachinfused wipes can be useful in this application and some of them require at least 10 minutes of uninterrupted exposure to be effective. 2. Alcohol and alcohol-soaked towelettes are specifically not recommended for cleaning surfaces.

What is practical?

Disposable Bed sheets / Covers, by far the best method to stop cross contamination and protection of surfaces.

The hygienic practice guidelines provided here are drawn from recommendations by the CDC and other resources for health-care professionals.These recommendations may be more strict or stringent than many people find practical, but our job as professionals is to be more careful than is necessary.Taking care of our equipment, our working environment, and ourselves takes time, energy, and investment in good cleaners. But it can give us the good health and longevity to more effectively take care of our clients.

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