Made you look. No, this isn't what you think.

It's more about the use of exam gloves when dressing wounds, or tending any illness that rates isolating the ill for fear of A) secondary infection and, B) spread of the original illness to others.

But even when isolated, they must be cared for. Lets face it, it's my husband, kids, grandkids, nieces, their kids, etc. At the very least, someone has to bring soup and clean laundry if the ill or injured are capable of self-care.

Right now, in clinics and exam rooms, you'll see fewer barriers, and more reliance on sanitizing sprays and foams.

At home, you probably don't keep half a pallet of sanitizers under the guest bed. Your next option is barrier techniques: the use of gloves, disposable shoe covers, masks and face shields, scrubs, lab coats, and clothing of durable fibers that can be sanitized by boiling and strong detergents.

There are always times when an illness or injury rates home care, and sometimes this happens at times and places where there just isn't any home health nurse. Unfortunately, all over the world, daily, there are also conditions of lawlessness, war, rioting, rampant crime, and snake-oil salesmen handing out placebos and promises to people who are just trying to keep loved ones alive, when getting near a hospital may get you shot for being a member of the "wrong" ethnic group.

Gloves and masks can be bought cheaply, using them is easy enough, using them well can probably be found on youtube, but it's easy to describe. It's more about removing them without touching your skin with the outsides of the used gloves.

Start by pinching a loose bit of one glove at the inside of the wrist, with the fingers of the opposite (also gloved) hand. With enough of the glove gripped, you can pull it off. Now you have one glove on, and one off, held in the still-gloved hand. Gather the loose glove into the palm of the one still worn as best you can, with the fingers of that hand. Now you still don't want to touch the outside of the contaminated gloves, so bend your hand back so that the fingers of the bare hand can slide inside the wrist of the remaining glove. Just like before, it doesn't take much before you have enough to pull it off, holding the other glove with your fingers until the second glove has wrapped around it. Now you can let go and slide your fingers free, you should be holding one glove by it's inner surface, while it contains the first in a neat bundle, and yes, you will still want to wash your hands.

Don't forget some wrap-around style safety glasses to keep with the gloves & masks. They might be inconvenient, but they still beat getting squirted in the eyes with blood or other gross body fluids.