Prowriters Hub: Wash your hands regularly to stay healthy by @yuceetoria
Washing hands is the most effective way to prevent getting and spreading germs. This act helps prevent the spread of bacteria and keeps the environment clean and healthy.
The scare that coronavirus gave us during the pandemic lockdown, taught people the importance of clean hand hygiene. People did not need the reminder of its consequences.
What is the proper way to wash hands?
Good hand washing involves using your two hands, which must be rubbed together for at least 10 to 15 seconds after applying soap. After carefully rubbing the soaps together, the hands can be rinsed under tap water.
• First, get your hands wet by taking a little from the tap, or scooping a little out of a bowl into the sink.
• Apply soap on the wet hands, rub the soap all over the front and back of your hands.j
• Rub your palms together, in between your fingers.
• Using your thumbs, rub them carefully on the palms of each hand, going through the lines on your hand.
• Rinse off with water.
• Pour some water on the tap handle to clean, and then turn it off.
• Dry with a clean hand towel
Benefits of washing hands
• It helps to kill germs and bacteria. The dirtiest things we touch every day includes door knob, money, light switches, cell phones, toilet seats, cover, etc. That is why it is advisable to always wash your hands after using the toilet. From contacting the germs in the toilets, it gets on your mobile phones, clothes, door knobs, car handle, and into your body. And the transmission begins, from you to another person and a chain is formed.
What activities should we what our hands before or after doing them
- Before, during, and after preparing your meals.
- Before and after taking your meals depending on the food you are eating.
- After using the toilet.
- After sneezing or coughing into your hands.
- After being with a person who is coughing or sneezing.
- Before visiting someone sick in the hospital
- Before carrying a newborn baby
- After sweeping the house.
- After touching your pets or animals.
- After playing
Why is using running water and liquid water the best?
Running water is the best because it washes dirt right away and you don’t need to put your hands back into the water to clean your hands in the case of using buckets or bowls.
What can you do if you don’t have running water from a tap?
You could pour the water into a bowl and wash it out. Instead of washing in the bowl, scoop little water out of the bowl onto the floor or another empty bowl, wash your hands repeatedly like that
What are some diseases that can be prevented by washing hands regularly?
Diarrhea is a common disease that can be contracted if the hands are not properly washed and used to take your meals.
Eye infection can be gotten from applying dirty hands to our eyes. It could come in form of itching, mild pain, or blurry vision. You should never touch your eyes with dirty hands until you wash them.
Respiratory diseases can be easily contracted because of dirty hands. Common ones like coughing, sneezing, and runny nose. This often happens when you come in contact with someone that has them and did not clean your hands before using them.
Do people in your area wash their hands regularly?
Where I work, people don’t really care about that. But because of the coronavirus, people are more conscious of it.
What can be done to create more awareness for hand-washing?
By creating awareness through educating radio and tv shows. Nowadays, there are shows that implement the importance of handwashing after doing various germ-prone activities.
By teaching children through cartoon shows.
By implementing rules across primary and secondary schools to always wash their hands.
By educating pregnant women who come for antenatal visits on the importance of washing hands for the better health of their baby.
Washing our hands properly is really a nice thing as we go far away from disease which might go into the body and break us down.
Handwashing is actually very important and essential for an healthy/germ-free life.
It's sad that people do not make this practice and habit thus aiding the spread of diseases
Washing of hands is very important in every Man's life,we need to wash our hand before and after eating this we help us to leave a healthy life
Yeah, all suggestions on handwashing are highly appreciated and accepted because it all leads to living a germ-free life
Very serious then that , during lockdown . When they counting cases as per infected , died already and quarantine person's . When such awareness got on air about washing of hands and sanitizing . No body ever skipped them. Thank you so much for touching.