good personal hygiene habits, especially hand washing habits, can become a firewall for many diseases. Apart from the fact that we knew from childhood that we should wash our hands before and after meals, when else should you wash but ignore it? The editor gives the following suggestions.
1. Wash your hands after reading the newspaper
organic solvents such as ethanol, isopropanol and toluene are often used in printing ink. Even the residual parts of these substances are harmful to human body.
2. Wash your hands after taking milk or newspaper in the morning
because milk boxes and newspaper boxes are easy to breed bacteria（ Text / life times, figure / data figure)
3. Wash your hands when you go out
during going out, your hands will inevitably touch some things in public places, such as door handles, elevator handrails, vertical elevator buttons, etc. these places are 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.
5. When dining out, don’t forget to wash your hands after reading the menu and ordering
because the menu is really dirty, few restaurants disinfect the menu regularly.
6. Wash your hands after using computer, mouse and mobile phone
these are several common items that are easy to be ignored but very dirty.
7. Wash your hands after drying clothes
dirty clothes and bacteria in the washing machine will be contaminated on the clothes during washing. In the process of drying clothes, the hands are likely to be stained with these bacteria. The clothes can finally achieve the purpose of disinfection after ultraviolet irradiation, but the hands are often ignored.
8. Wash your hands after touching body secretions
, such as sneezing, coughing or blowing your nose with your hands over your mouth and nose.
9. Wash hands after contacting 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 wash their hands simply, but they ignore the scrubbing of 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 rubbing method. Washing hands for 40 seconds or more can improve the qualified rate of hand hygiene by 30% – 40%. The steps are as follows:
the first step is to face each other with palms and fingers close together and rub each other; The second step is to rub the palm of the hand against the back of the hand along the finger seam; The third step, palms opposite, hands crossed, rubbing each other along the finger seam; The fourth step is to hold hands and rub each other; The fifth step is to hold the thumb of the other hand in one hand and rotate and rub in the palm; Step 6: rub your fingertips against the palm.