Washing your hands is an easy way to avoid any illness or infection. Understand when to wash your hands, how to do it properly and how to instill this habit in the smallest are important for its impact on our health and that of our family. For this reason, under the October 15, World Hand washing in we bring you some tips to consider and pass on to our environment on how to wash their hands properly.
When washing your hands?
In the course of the day, germs collect in bunches in our hands. Those hands are our tools to interact with others and with ourselves, so the transfer of germs, viruses and bacteria is constant and even self-generated when the rub our eyes, we get the finger in the mouth or scratch our nose.
For this reason, we wash our hands, especially before:
Preparing or eating food
Treat wounds, administering medicines, or care for a sick or injured.
Inserting or removing contact lenses
We also need to wash your hands after:
Preparing food, especially raw meat or poultry
Go to the bathroom or changing a diaper
Touching an animal
Waste Handling
Blow your nose, coughing or sneezing into hands
Wound healing or caring for a sick or injured
Handling of chemicals in the house or garden, or anything that may be contaminated
Wipe clean or dirty shoes play
When we see that our hands are dirty
How to wash our hands?
Usually the best way to wash hands is with soap and water, following simple steps:
Wet hands with running water.
Apply liquid soap, bar, or powder soap.
Lather well.
Rub hands vigorously for at least 20 seconds.
Scrub all surfaces, including backs of hands, wrists, between fingers and under fingernails.
Rinse thoroughly.
Dry hands with a clean towel or air dryer.
If possible, use the towel to turn off the tap.
One thing to note is that antibacterial soap is not necessarily more effective at killing germs than is regular soap. The use of antibacterial soap may even lead to the development of bacteria that are resistant to antimicrobial product that makes it more difficult to kill germs in the future.
