Good personal hygiene habits, especially the habit of washing hands, can become a firewall for many diseases. In addition to washing your hands before and after meals, which we have known since childhood, what other times do you neglect when you should wash your hands?
Wash your hands after reading the newspaper. Organic solvents such as ethanol, isopropanol and toluene are often used in printing inks. Even the residual parts of these substances are harmful to human beings.
2. Wash your hands after taking milk or newspaper in the morning. Because milk boxes and newspaper boxes are easy to breed bacteria.
Wash your hands when you come back from going out. During going out, your hands will inevitably come into contact with some things in public places, such as door handles, elevator handrails, straight elevator buttons, etc. these places are places where bacteria and viruses gather, which are very dirty. Therefore, when you go out and come back, you must wash your hands before doing other things.
4. Wash your hands after taking your wallet and banknotes and using the ATM.
When eating out, don’t forget to wash your hands after reading the menu and ordering. Because the menu is really dirty, few restaurants will disinfect the menu regularly.
6. Wash hands after using computer, mouse and mobile phone. These are common items that are easy to be ignored but very dirty.
7. Wash your hands after drying the clothes. The bacteria in dirty clothes and washing machines will contaminate the clothes during washing. In the process of drying clothes, hands are likely to be stained with these bacteria. After ultraviolet irradiation, clothes can finally be disinfected, but hands are often ignored.
8. Wash hands after touching body secretions. For example, cover your mouth and nose with your hands after sneezing, coughing or blowing your nose.
9. Wash hands after touching pets or poultry to prevent animal related infectious diseases.
10. Wash hands after changing diapers for babies or patients, or after handling contaminated items.
Most people simply wash their hands, but they neglect to scrub their fingertips, fingers and thumbs, which can only reduce the bacterial pollution rate by 18%. The World Health Organization recommends a standard hand washing method, called six step scrubbing method. Washing hands for 40 seconds or more can improve the qualified rate of hand hygiene by 30% – 40%. The steps are as follows:
First, the palms are opposite, the fingers are close together, and they rub against each other; The second step is to rub and wash each other along the finger seam, palm to back; Step 3: the palms are opposite, and the hands cross and rub each other along the finger seam; Step 4: hold and rub each other’s hands; Step 5: hold the thumb of the other hand in one hand and rotate and rub it in the palm; Step 6: rub your fingertips against the palm.
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