15 Oct 2010

Wash your hands with True

Washing hands is one that is easy and inexpensive measures to prevent the spread of disease. Our own hands instead often a mediator of various bacteria to get into our bodies. In order to obtain maximum results, you should know how proper hand washing techniques.

Why Must Wash Hands?
Someone flu sufferers with the hand holding his nose when sneezing, then handle on the bus, when you hold the handle, the flu bacteria can quickly switch to your hands and if you hold your nose or mouth, germs can get into our bodies. That picture of how easily germs move from one person to another. Diseases such as diarrhea, intestinal worms, Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), tuberculosis and even deadly diseases such as SARS, avian influenza (H5N1) and swine influenza A (H1N1) can be prevented by washing hands properly. Unfortunately, many people who crumble these healthy habits and do not consider it important. And with good hand washing, you and your family can live healthier.

How the Right Hand Washing
Proper hand washing should use soap and under running water. While these steps are correct hand washing technique is as follows.
* Wet hands with water under a faucet or running water.
* Take enough liquid soap to the entire hand. It would be better if the soap contains antiseptic.
* Rub your palms together.
* Rub down to the fingertips.
* The palm of the hand rubbing the back of his left hand (or vice versa) with interlocking fingers (criss-cross) between right and left hands. Rub the sidelines of the finger. Do the opposite.
* Put back the fingers one with the back of the other fingers and interlock.
* Rub the right thumb with left palm with rotary motion. Do the same with the left thumb.
* Rub your palms with the back of the fingers of one hand with the movement forward, backward and turning. Do the opposite.
* Hold your right wrist with his left hand and do the twist. Do the same for left hand.
* Clean the soap from his hands with running water.
* Dry hands using a tissue and when using the faucet, close the valves with a tissue.

Drying with a tissue to dry the hand is better than using a common hand-drying machine in the mall. Due to the hand dryer in a similar manner to accommodate a lot of bacteria that can infect other people.

When do When You Wash Your Hands?
Hand washing is generally done just before eating, before preparing food, after handling raw meat, before and after touching a sick person, after using the bathroom, after coughing or sneezing or blowing your nose, after changing diapers or pads, before and after treating wounds, after cleaning or taking out the trash, after touching animals or animal waste.

You also should teach good hand washing habits are to your child is still small. A happy child learn about and touch things without knowing whether the object is dirty or not. Then insert his hand into the mouth or eating without washing hands. As a result the child may suffer from the disease. According to research, the number 1 killer disease of children in Indonesia is due to diarrhea, although this can be prevented by teaching children to wash hands.

Given the importance of washing hands, so any steps proclaimed October 15th as Global Handwashing Day. Familiarize yourself and your family to wash their hands right now.

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