As you know, flu season is upon us. You're coming in contact with the flu virus and many other germs. They're on shopping carts, door handles, even around your house. You may not even realise how many times you're touching your nose, your mouth, your eyes, and you're going to get sick from it.
The best way to prevent this is to wash your hands with a good old-fashioned bar of soap. The first thing you want to do – turn on the water to a warm temperature, get a good lather going in your hands. Be sure to wash the palms of your hands. Take that, wash the back sides as well. Try to focus on getting your thumbs nice and clean and soapy, and in between your fingers. And, if you can, make sure you wash the tips as well.
When you're all done, rinse off your hands, take a paper towel, dry off, use the paper towel to turn off the water.
The best length of time to wash your hands is 20 seconds. If you want something a little more fun, you can hum 'Happy Birthday' in your head two times, and you'll be just great.
Protect yourself, protect your family this season against all the germs and viruses that are out there.
Clean hands for a healthy life.
© Rush University Medical Centre
Comments
Yes, this is the most effective way to prevent getting coronavirus.
Indeed! Quite surprised to learn that to perform an effective handwash you need an old-fashioned bar soap. Has this been scientifically proven?
Actually, I have been looking into this some months ago.
And yes, it has been proven. I think I can find the info again, I cannot remember if it was in The Lancet.
But for now I found this short article in New York Times:
https://www.nytimes.com/2007/07/10/science/10qna.html
In fact, in my country we are cleaning our hands exactly like this video. But I want to say something. I think that while washing our hands, we should turn off the tap. In this way we prevent a big waste.
You could be right but it hardly takes more than 20 seconds to complete the thing. However, the waste water could be recycled for use in many other ways that support environmental sustainance and safety.
I learnt the proper technique of handwash . how long we should wash our hands to help us protect from germs. which causes illness.
I learned the correct hand whashing technique and also the time required for a correct and safe hands washing.
I learn new words for example jem
I learnt new words!
thanks
Yes I have lern anything. I lern how long I was my hands and more
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