Handwashing is one of the reasonable ways to insure yourself and your family from getting sick. Read up when and how you should wash your hands to stay healthy.
Handwashing
When to practice handwashing
Scrub Your Hands Often to Stay Healthy
You can help yourself and your loved ones stay healthy by washing your hands often, particularly during these pivotal times when you are likely to get and spread germs:
Below are when to practice handwashing.
1. Before, during, and after preparing food.
2. Before eating food
3.Before and after caring for someone at home who is sick with vomiting or diarrhea
4. Before and after treating a cut or wound
5. After using the toilet
6. After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has used the toilet
7. After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
8. After touching an animal, animal feed, or animal waste
9. After handling pet food or pet treats
10. After touching garbage
Washing your hands is simple, and it’s one of the most valuable ways to curb the spread of germs. Clean hands can stop germs from spreading from one person to another and throughout an entire community—from your home and workplace to childcare facilities and hospitals.
Follow these steps every time.
Handwashing technique
1. Wet hands with water
2. Apply enough soap to cover all the hand surfaces
3. Rub hands palm to palm
4. Right palm over left dorsum with interlaced fingers and vice versa.
5. Palm to palm with fingers interlaced.
6. Back of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked.
7. Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa
8. Rotational rubbing, backward and forward with clasped fingers of the right hand in left palm and vice versa.
9. Rinse hand with water
10. Dry thoroughly with a single-use towel
11. Use towel to turn off the faucet
And your hands are safe…
In your daily living, always bear it out that, washing hands under running water and applying as much friction as possible is essential in handwashing.
