Hand Washing CORRECT

Why Must Wash Hands?

Someone flu sufferers with hands holding his nose when sneezing, then memagang handle on the bus, when you hold the handle, bacteria, flu can quickly switch to your hands and when 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 mengganggapnya not important. Whereas with good hand washing habit, you and your family can live healthier.


How to Correct 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 a sufficient amount of liquid soap for the whole hand. It would be better if the soap contains antiseptic.
* Rub your palms together.
* Rub down to the fingertips.
* The palm of the hand rubs the back of his left hand (or vice versa) with interlocking fingers (alternating) between right and left hand. Rub the finger sidelines. Do the opposite.
* Place the back of the fingers with the back of one another and interlock fingers.
* Rub your thumb with the palm of his right hand left with a circular motion. Do the same with the left thumb.
* Rub your palms with the backs of the fingers of her other 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 your hands with soap from flowing water.
* Dry hands using a tissue and if menggunkan faucets, cover with tissue valves.

Dry with a towel to dry hands is better than using common hand dryers in the mall. Because hand dryers are generally used to accommodate many bacteria that can infect other people.

When washing 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 should also teach good hand washing habits to your children this young. A delighted child learn about and touch things without knowing whether the object is dirty or not. Then put his hand into the mouth or eat food without washing their hands. As a result the child may be suffering from the disease. According to research, child number one killer disease in Indonesia is due to diarrhea, although this can be prevented by teaching children to wash their hands.

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