Hand Washing Tips

It’s common knowledge that – your hands carry germs. We hear this from our mothers everyday – wash your hands! Here we give you some important hand washing facts most of you may not know.

  1. With hand washing you can avoid getting colds, flu, staph infection or intestinal illness and also avoid spreading those illnesses to others.
  2. Soap and clean running water are necessary for adequate hand washing. Warm water is preferable. Lather up and scrub for 20 seconds.
  3. Do you know how soap works? The soap mixes with the skin oil, and it loosens grease and dirt that carry germs.
  4. Plain soaps are better than antibacterial soaps.
  5. Soap and water do better to clean your hands. But if they are not available, you can use an alcohol-based gel.
  6. Wash your hands often. Normally one touches his/her eyes, nose and mouth at least 200 times a day. This makes germs get into your body.
  7. Important times to wash your hands – before preparing or eating food, after diapering a child, after going to the bathroom, before and after caring for any patient, after blowing your nose or coughing, and after handling an animal.

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