MOSCOW, 15 Nov — RIA Novosti. On the importance of hand-washing everyone knows, but not all do it correctly. If everyone followed the rules, the number of deaths worldwide fell by a million a year. The world day of washing hands, RIA Novosti learned the complexity of this seemingly daily ritual.
Don’t forget to bring soap!
Lather hands to work up lather.
Don’t forget between your fingers too dirty.
Hands should be washed thoroughly.
Blot the water with paper towels.
You to wash your hands correctly!
10 million bacteria
In the hands of a man living 150 species of bacteria. Their total number ranges from eight to ten million. Some of them are harmless to humans, but only up to a point.
“There is such a thing as opportunistic. For example, E. coli. It is present in our body, lives in the intestine and belongs to the group of opportunistic. If this bacterium enters the body through dirty hands, for example, after public transport or toilets, it provokes hepatitis a,” said the head of therapeutic Department of the University Clinical hospital No. 4 of the First Moscow state medical University named after I. M. Sechenov, doctor therapist, doctor-gastroenterologist, doctor of the highest qualification category of Karina Oganesyan.
When you need to wash your hands?
— After visiting public places and travel on public transport
Before eating
After visiting the sick people
After visiting toilets
— Before cooking
Before eating
— After contact with animals
— After cleaning the home
— After contact with the waste
— After you have sneezed or coughed
— Before and after the treatment of wounds
— After contact with the waste
By the way, ordinary kitchen sponge – a place where a large number of bacteria. Moist environment in which they are located allows them to proliferate. Doctor Karina Oganesyan recommend changing the sponge every two weeks.
You should carry antiseptic or antibacterial wipes, they will come to the rescue in case of lack of the ability to wash my hands. But abuse of antiseptics is not necessary.
“Antiseptics may dry the skin, leading to the appearance of microcracks. It will be additional gates for infections,” said Karina Oganesyan.
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Lovers holding hands
Which illnesses will save washing your hands?
On the eve of winter the most common disease is a viral infection that manifest as SARS and influenza. From enteric dysentery and salmonellosis. Another common disease of “dirty hands” is hepatitis A.
How to wash your hands?
Rules of hand washing are simple, but rinse them with water enough: therefore, we remove only the visible dirt.
“On the question of how to wash hands, best contact surgeons, they aces. “Wash hands” in the understanding of the surgeon is from fingers to elbows. But in daily life not necessarily to be so fanatical. The rules are: you must lather the soap into a lather, RUB the palm of your hand, then put a palm over the back side of the other hand, this is done in order to rinse the interdigital spaces, there is a significant accumulation of dirt,” said Karina Oganesyan.
