Q Shield™  can be taken through airport security in hand luggage.**

Q Shield™ eliminates microbes

Q Shield™ is hypoallergenic

Q Shield™ does not build or increase antibacterial or antimicrobial resistance in pathogens on repeated or prolonged use.

Q Shield™ Is protected by Patent and is FDA Approved.

The problem with hand hygiene has always been that no one ever knows when their hands have become contaminated by any dangerous microbes.  Washing hands with soap and water or cleaning with alcohol gels has always been good advice, but both are limited in that they provide no ongoing protection.  Without ongoing protection there is no real protection – worse still in the case of alcohol gels, a recent study 76% of people using alcohol gels thought that the gels gave lasting protection.  This could be dangerous if people believe they are protected, it may mean they do not take as many precautions, stop washing hands etc.  In fact once the alcohol has evaporated there is no residual effect, if it has evaporated too quickly it may not have killed all the microbes on your hands (depends on the air temperature and amount used), in which case your hands will begin to re colonise immediately, if you are lucky enough to have killed all microbes, as soon as you touch anything else that is colonised, your hands will pick up the microbes and they will start to multiply.

The best defence against microbes including flu viruses on hands is to have a long term effect.  That means regular treatment of safe persistent agents that will keep hands free of microbes.  This advice is particularly important for people such as pregnant women and children, in fact anyone who is at particular risk from the Swine Flu virus.  Until recently soap and water and alcohol gels were the best and only option.