Hand washing is essential for hygiene, and today, during the Covid-19 disease, it is even more important. It's impossible to wash your hands all the time, but if you're going to touch any of these 10 things, it's very important to wash your hands as soon as you can.
Regular hand washing prevents the transmission of bacteria, viruses and other harmful microbes. The American Center for Disease Control and Prevention and our NIJZ recommend using soap and warm water or use alcohol-based disinfectants. Let's see which 10 things we should wash our hands of immediately.
Holders and handles
Hand washing is extremely important to limit the spread of bacteria and viruses, he says dr. Katy Burris, a dermatologist at Columbia University Medical Center. It is very important to wash your hands immediately after riding public transport, where several people are constantly touching the same surfaces. The same goes for any railings or handrails that we know are touched by a lot of people.
Money
Although we can pay with a payment card almost everywhere these days, there are merchants who do not accept cards, and it may also happen that we only have cash with us. Every time we touch money, wash our hands as soon as possible. The researchers are in the process of testing $1 bills discovered hundreds of microorganisms, including oral and vaginal bacteria and DNA and viruses from pets.
Restaurant menu
Researchers from the University of Arizona found that menus contain incredible 185,000 bacterial organisms. We cannot avoid them, so always wash our hands after touching the menu in the restaurant.
Animals
According to opinion dr. Nesochi Okeke-Igbokwe only a certain percentage of people wash their hands after touching pets or animals. Animals can transmit various diseases, even pets, where hand washing is most often neglected. However, this is necessary after contact with any animal, yours or someone else's!
Almost everything in the doctor's office/waiting room
Due to the large number of patients who come to the surgery every day, microbes or bacteria "sit" on most things. Pay special attention to the publications or pens that are in the waiting room. It's better to always have reading material or a pen with you!
Screens
Washing your hands after touching any screen is essential, be it your phone or, for example, an infomat in a shopping center! One of the worst carriers of germs is precisely the devices at the airport or on public transport.
Cutting boards and kitchen sponges
The kitchen is surrounded by microorganisms. One study even found that used kitchen sponges actually live on them 326 different types of bacteria. So throw away the old sponges and, as suggested by Dr. Burrisova, always wash your hands before preparing a meal and after contact with raw meat!
Pens that are not yours
While many people already use their smartphone or tablet to take notes, some of us still reach for the good old pen. That's fine, but wash your hands after using the pen. Research has shown that they have average office pens ten times more germs than the average office toilet bowl!
Soap dispensers
There are soap dispensers a paradise for bacteria, which was also confirmed by researchers from the University of Arizona. Namely, when someone presses the soap dispenser, all the bacteria from the hands can remain on the soap bottle or packaging.
Airports
The airport is a place through which thousands of people pass every day. More people means more germs and more common public areas where we can come into contact with them. That's why we should always have hand sanitizer with us or wash our hands whenever possible.
