Hand wash |
Introduction of hand washing
Hand washing
is a simple and effective way to prevent the infection and germs. Hand hygiene is a single most effective process to prevent the transmission of diseases,
germs and infection. This is the only way to be healthy and fit.
Hand washing
comes before taking medicine and medical help to prevent spread of disease.
Means if you are infected by any germs, bacteria or disease and you are taking
medicine and medical help, it will not work better because you are not
following the basic hygiene of hand washing. There are types of hand washing..
- Antiseptic hand wash
- Antiseptic hand rub
- Surgical antiseptic
Importance:
Hand washing
protect us with the germs, bacteria and disease, when we follow the hand
hygiene. One personal benefits of good hygiene is having good health, keeping
your body clean helps prevent an infection and in other words , when you take
care of , how you look, you feel better about yourself. By washing your hand
with soap or alcohol based sanitizer, it removes germs from hand. This helps to prevent infection because
people frequently touch their eyes, nose and mouth without even realizing it.
Germs can get into the body through the eye, nose and mouth and make us sick.
Even healthcare providers are at risk of getting infection while they are
treating the patient. It is important also in hospitals and nursing homes.
Important of hand wash |
Advantages of hand washing:
Germs ,
virus , bacteria and disease from unwashed can be transferred to other object
like table, toys, handrails, mobile phone, laptop, food and then transferred to
other person’s hand. So, it is important to removing germs through the hand
washing. The advantage of hand wash is
to stop spread of Covid19, diarrhea, and respiratory and other infection. The other advantages are
such as to stop food poisoning , flu, stomach pain and much more..
Advantage |
Causes:
When you
don’t wash your hands you pass germs to friends and family and get them sick.
If you get germs on a object like mobile phones , laptop, table, doorknob and
handrail you could infect people you don’t even know. There are many infection
you can spread by not washing your hand such as-
- Flu
- Cold
- Influenza
- Diarrea
- maningitis
- Chicken pox
- Hepatitis A
- Coronavirus
- Norovirus
- Airborne illness
- Nosocomical infection
Causes |
Follow the hand wash with this steps:
step 1: wet hand. wet your hand with clean water and apply enough liquid soap to create a good lather.
step 2: rub your hand palms together.
step 3: rub the back of your hand.
step 4: interlink your fingers.
step 5: cup your fingers.
step 6: clean the thumbs.
step 7: rub palms with your fingers.
Steps of hand wash |
Thank you..
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