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Prevent infections When hand washing twice Happy Birthday buzz
Hand washing is considered the most important hygiene rule ever. This can significantly reduce the risk of various diseases. But it must be done correctly and long enough. Help can be a birthday song.
Thorough hand washing reduces the number of germs enormously
Even the little ones learn that you should wash your hands before eating and after using the toilet. Because: "If you regularly wash your hands thoroughly, you and others protect yourself from many pathogens. For thorough hand washing reduces the number of germs on the hands to one-thousandth, "writes the Federal Center for Health Education (BZgA) on the website" Infektionsschutz.de ". However, when washing hands a lot to note.
Hand washing can protect against numerous infectious diseases. But it must be done correctly and long enough. (Image: Alexander Raths / fotolia.com) Contact with pathogens is inevitable
In everyday life, contact with germs can never be completely avoided. When shaking hands or touching objects or pets pathogens stick to the hands, which then later, for example, when rubbing the eyes, penetrate through the mucous membranes in the body.
"Up to 80 percent of all infectious diseases are transmitted by hand. These include, for example, diseases such as colds, the flu or contagious gastrointestinal infections, "reports the BZgA.
"Hand washing is a simple and effective measure that can protect against infection," the experts write.
In a message from the dpa news agency, Andrea Rückle from the BZgA explains important topics on the occasion of the World Hand Hygiene Day on 5 May.
When to wash your hands
When asked when to wash your hands, it helps to remember where germs occur in everyday life.
For example, when grilling: Since you take the bacteria that are on raw poultry meat on the finished sausage, if you do not wash your hands in between.
This can quickly lead to diarrhea. For other raw foods, appropriate hygiene is particularly important.
Furthermore, the hands should also be cleaned after using the toilet, at home, before eating, after Müllrausbringen and after contact with an animal.
Twice the song Happy Birthday hum
Although washing your hands without soap is not senseless, because you also clean with dirt and dirt and some pathogens.
But it is more effective to soak in: the palms, backs of the hands, interdigital spaces, fingernails and thumbs, which are often forgotten. Water temperature does not matter.
In general, thorough hand washing takes 20 to 30 seconds. Here a song can help. The Unicef Children's Fund once recommended that children hum Happy Birthday twice by washing their hands.
This is the optimal time to remove the most dangerous bacteria and viruses. The advice for children is not wrong even for adults.
After lathering, hands are rinsed under running water and dried.
More soap removes more bacteria
As explained by Rückle in the dpa report, liquid soaps are more hygienic, especially on public toilets, than soap bars, which can sometimes form a thin bacterial film.
"The most important thing is to use soap at all," says the expert. However, this does not have to contain antibacterial additives. The amount, however, plays an important role: Studies have shown that more soap removes more bacteria.
It is also important to properly dry hands, as microorganisms multiply more easily in a humid environment.
At home, everyone should use their own towel, which is changed regularly and washed at least 60 degrees. In public toilets disposable towels are ideal.
But what to do if there is no possibility to wash your hands, for example after touching an animal in the petting zoo? Rückle advises in such situations, as far as possible not to get in the face or to touch food. Then the pathogens do not get into the body.
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