when should you wash your hands?
We’ve all know that hand washing is an effective and easy to apply technique that can prevent the spread of communicable disease. Now let’s see when should we actually wash our hands.
According to Rhode Island Health Department, which adapted it from Massachusetts Department of health, there are several occasion where we must wash our hands. Those occasions are:
- When arriving at work
- After using the bathroom
- After smoking
- After sneezing
- After touching your hair, face, clothing
- After eating or drinking
- After taking off or before putting on a new pair of gloves
- Before handling food, especially ready-to-eat foods like salads and sandwiches
- After handling garbage
- After handling dirty equipment, dishes, or utensils
- After touching raw meats, poultry and fish
- Anytime you change tasks – go from one thing to another
As a blogger, I want to add one more thing to the list myself. Please wash your hands before and after you blogging. You see, your keyboard or mouse is a potential place for germs to hide. It’s not a common thing for someone who uses computer to clean the keyboard/mouse after using it. So everytime you made a contact with the keyboard/mouse, you can transfer germs from your hands to the keyboard or have the germs transferred into your hands. Even worse if you are a blogger that do not use your own/personal computer, then there might be a chance for you to get germs from other people hands.
Handwashing is a single most effective way to prevent communicable disease. So do it!
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Amazing post. One of the best I’ve read on the net.
I’d like to add:
1) Before eating food especially when you eat with your hand. Or even when you go to the cinema and are going to eat popcorn, make sure your hands are clean.
2) For me, I make it a point to wash hands even when I finish examining a patient and going to examining the next one. I don’t want to transfer bacteria from one patient to the other, even though I use different gloves most of the time.
Comment by Atif — December 7, 2008 @ 12:26 am
Hey, great information about hygiene! It really is hard for us to remember to keep our hands clean, but it’s more important than many of us realize. After reading this, I’ll start paying more attention with the cleaness of the keyboard of my comp.
Comment by Coatlicue — December 12, 2008 @ 2:23 am
Very Good post. It provides the nice information. The word too wash hands is looking simple but too much important. So Great post.
Comment by Six Pack Abs — October 2, 2009 @ 8:11 pm
Wow i im gonna wash my hands more often from now on
Comment by Jakup bjarkhamar — January 19, 2010 @ 6:48 pm