This topic sounds like : "are you innocent of the crime?" Well, calm down, thats not what we are talking about today. We are going to look at hand hygiene, why is it necesssary?
It is common to most people to wash their hands regularly. While to others, they eat without washing. To them, bacteria does not kill after all how did our old mothers survive, working hard and eating in the farm with unwashed hands?
Depending on their profession, some wash hands more than others. A doctor and a nurse wash their hands every now and then. But I dont expect a banker to count few notes and then go and wash his hands. Yet maintaining a proper hand hygiene is good for all.
WHAT IS HAND HYGIENE
It is the practice of keeping your hands clean regularly with soap , water and alcohol-based sanitizers.
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Did you know you can also wash your hands with ash?
WHY WASH HANDS REGULARLY?
Having a good hand hygiene is the simplest, single most important and inexpensive way of curbing the spread of micro organisms. This is because, most times, we tend to touch things or people with our hands.
Of all parts of the body, the hand , meant for feeling is the part that mostly comes in contact with people. We need to maintain a proper hand hygiene to prevent diseases. Washing the hands help remove dirts and micro organisms in the hand which are not visible to the eyes. Imbibing proper hand hygiene significantly help to reduce the rate at which pathogens on hands can be acquired.
USE RUNNING WATER TO WASH YOUR HANDS
Do not just was in a bowl of water, rather wash under a running water. It does not have to be a tap. Someone can help to pour it. Remove your jewelry e.g wrist watch and wash thoroughly. Dry hands with clean towel
WHEN TO WASH
It is advisable to wash the hands regularly especially:
i) before, during and after making meals
ii) after visiting the toilet and after changing diapers( mothers take note)
iii)after sneezing, covering cough with hands or after blowing catarrh
iv)after visiting and touching a sick person
v)after leaving a hospital or clinic.
HOW ABOUT CARE GIVERS IN THE HOSPITAL OR AT HOME?
Have you wondered why care givers often wash their hands even when they work with gloves? Before we talk about that, i mentioned it sometime last month in a post that someone i called school mother, a nurse contracted HIV. Click Here for details. She got the HIV AIDS due to carelessness.
So care givers should wash their hands while carrying out the following processes.
i) Before Contact With Patients: It is adviced that care givers wash their hands before even touching a patient. This is to protect the patient from germs carried by the hands of the care giver
ii) Before administering aseptic task: Aseptic task could include inserting urinary catheters, helping with baby delivery, inserting other drainage devices, etc. Washing of hands by the care giver before these processes begin is also for the benefit of patient so that germs on her will not enter into her body
iii) Washing hands after being exposed to body fluid of the patient. Even with the hand glove on, when it is removed, the care giver should wash his/ her hands . This protects the care giver and the environment also from the harmful effect of germs from the patients.
iv) They should wash hands after contact with patients. After touching a patient, the care giver should wash after leaving. This protects the care giver from germs
v) After coming in contact with a patient's surrounding, wash your hands. Did you touch his bed? Even when you didnt touch the patient, wash your hands after leaving. This protects you a great deal from germs.
From the foregoing, let me ask, have you washed your hands today? You know I know you know that prevention is better than cure. Prevent the spread of germs and subsequent diseases by giving your hands a wash. If you are not disposed to wash hands regularly, get alcohol -based sanitisers and clean your hands.
The human hand touches and feel most things we come in contact with. These things contaminate the hands and make us sick.
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DO YOU HAVE AN IDEA WHAT GERMS COULD BE ON YOUR HANDS?
IF YOU COULD SEE THE GERMS YOU WILL WASH YOUR HANDS.
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