maybe im being paranoid...

[eternalbride]

I was in what i will call a conference with other colleagues. We were seated (in close proximity) around a oval table, and each had a water bottle. At the end of the meeting, everyone was leaving. i was reaching down to get my bottle of water and realized that there was another like 5 inches away from my water. Maybe its my imagination running away with me, but i may have been drinking up someone elses water bottle without realizing it. Thinking back, the water did seem to have a taste, but i attributed this to the plastic itself. Should i be worried?

[Anna Flaxis, BSN, RN]

I have no words. I'm sorry, I really don't know how to respond to this post in a kind way.

[VivaLasViejas, ASN, RN]

I was in what i will call a conference with other colleagues. We were seated (in close proximity) around a oval table, and each had a water bottle. At the end of the meeting, everyone was leaving. i was reaching down to get my bottle of water and realized that there was another like 5 inches away from my water. Maybe its my imagination running away with me, but i may have been drinking up someone elses water bottle without realizing it. Thinking back, the water did seem to have a taste, but i attributed this to the plastic itself. Should i be worried?

In a word: No.

[APRN., DNP, RN, APRN, NP]

There are a ton of things to worry about. Why limit yourself to drinking out of someone else's water bottle?

Think Big!

[Hygiene Queen]

Drink lots of alcohol... it'll kill the germs

[RubicsCube]

Not unless you suspect the person has a contagious disease, like herpes on the lips.

[Kyrshamarks, BSN, RN]

if your face starts to rot off and your son turns into a green gray pallor and you have an insatiable urge to eat flesh, then yes, you need to worry.

[Gooselady, BSN, RN]

I drank almost a whole bottled iced tea that I mistook for mine one time. I thought it was a little bit 'warm', and I'd just bought it from a refrigerated case down in the cafeteria. Anyway, so I remember something in the back part of the nurse's station and find another bottle of partially consumed iced tea, nice n cold, and my pen that I'd been looking for, too.

The hard part was NO ONE admitted to owning the iced tea that I did drink. And it was evening shift, so it could have been sitting there all day long, or heck, two days? I have to admit, I immediately felt a bit ill . . . kind of like hearing about head lice and then your head starts to itch . . . I just tried to forget about it as hard as I could and since everyone KNEW about it, and continued to comment about it ("Hey, that one social worker with a giant cold sore on her lip? Doesn't she drink that kind of iced tea?" (my coworkers had a great time with it).

[TheCommuter, BSN, RN]

Should i be worried?

I wouldn't worry. The hydrochloric acid in your stomach probably killed whatever germs you might have swallowed.

You can drink a water bottle that was used by an HIV-infected person and never contract the virus. Microorganisms are harder to catch than meets the eye.

[LittleCandles]

Ebola.

You gots the Ebola.

That's how we get Ebola right?

[nursel56]

Well, I wouldn't want to freak anybody out, but there was that dude caught on video thing a while back :barf01:

But seriously, eternalbride you'll be fine.

[Dranger]

Is this real life?