The reason why you need to wash your hands

Washing hand is one that is easy and inexpensive measures to prevent the spread of disease. Our own hands it is often the intermediaries 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?
A person with flu closes his nose with his hands when sneezing, then holds the handle on the bus, when you hold the handle, the flu can quickly move bacteria into your hand 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 flu (H5N1) and swine flu (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 lives healthier.

How the right step to wash hands?
Proper hand washing should use soap and under running water. While the measures proper hand washing technique is as follow.

• Wet hands with water under a faucet or running water.
• Take just enough liquid soap to the hands. 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 the hand left hand (or vice versa) with the fingers interlocked (criss-cross) between the right and left. Rub it between your fingers. Do the opposite.
• Put your finger back to back one another and interlock fingers.
• Rub right thumb with left palm with a 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 left hand and do the twist. Do the same for the left hand.
• Clean hands with soap from flowing water.
• Dry hands using a tissue and when using the faucet, close the faucet with a tissue.
• Drying with a tissue better than drying hands using a hand dryer that general was at the mall. Because the hand dryer in a similar manner to accommodate a lot of bacteria that can infects other people.

When You Wash 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 child this young. A child is happy to learn about and touch everything without knowing whether the object is dirty or not. Then put his hand into the mouth or eating without washing hands. As a result the child may suffer from the disease.

Given the importance of washing hands, then every staircase October 15 was declared as the World Hand Washing Day. Familiarize yourself and your family to wash your hands right now.