Teach your child the right hand washing!
Practices to be taken to protect against health-damaging environments and all cleaning measures are defined as 'hygiene'. Compliance with hygiene rules is one of the most important factors for protection from diseases.
Hygiene is the most important means of protecting the health of others, especially one's own health. Personal hygiene habits are very important in the control of many infectious diseases. Not only body cleansing, but also keeping everything and every environment clean is essential to staying healthy. Handwashing is the best, most effective and cheapest method of protection from diseases. Developing hand washing habits in children from an early age is very effective in protecting against important diseases. Acıbadem University Atakent Hospital, Pediatric Infectious Diseases Specialist. Dr. Metehan Özen explained the cleaning rules that children should pay attention to.
Risk of illness increases if hand hygiene is not observed
In particular, public environments such as schools and kindergartens provide the most suitable environment for the spread of infectious diseases. Common infectious diseases in schools; influenza infections, hepatitis, rash diseases and parasitic infections. Some of these diseases can be prevented by the full administration of the vaccine. Protection from some diseases is possible by paying attention to hygienic conditions, toilet cleaning and hand cleaning.
Hands that provide every kind of relationship with the environment in a person's daily life carry many microorganisms. Especially in crowded environments such as schools, children are exposed to the risk of communicable diseases such as hepatitis A and intestinal infections, especially influenza. To protect our children from upper respiratory tract infections, keep them away from sick children and adults, wash hands frequently or use hand disinfectant, have tissue paper (the handkerchief should be disposed of immediately), especially in areas where many children are together, proper cleaning of playgrounds and toys and influenza vaccination is important.
Wash your hands with soap and water for at least 30 seconds
Even in clean-looking hands, thousands of disease-causing microorganisms can be found. Influenza and jaundice viruses, diarrhea agents, intestinal parasites can spread to the mouth and hands through the body. Therefore, especially when the hands are not washed properly after the toilet, there may be germ transfer even when exchanging items such as erasers and pencils made between children at school. Coughing and sneezing can cause these germs to get into the body through hands. Wiping the seats with wet wipes and laying toilet paper on them before using the toilet will prevent many germs from coming into contact. However, after cleaning the hands should be washed carefully. In hygienic hand washing, hands should be washed with soap and water for at least 30 seconds.
Use disinfectant if you cannot wash your hand
The development of hand washing habits in children from an early age is very effective in protecting against important diseases. The habit of handwashing, which has become even more important for the school-aged child, will be the most important measure to protect our children from many infections; before and after meals, before and after the toilet; after contact with spoiled food and rubbish by hand, after manual closure of the mouth during sneezing and coughing, after the use of public transport, money exchange, after the use of common telephones, after close contact with cats, dogs and other animals, after coming home from school and work. It is washed. Since it is not always possible to wash hands after this kind of daily contact, we should make it a habit to have hand disinfectant gels in small tubes with us.
Prefer liquid soap in public places
Purpose in hand hygiene; chemical and physical pests and microorganisms that cause infections. When washing hands with water only, visible dirt is removed by mechanical action, but complete hygiene cannot be achieved. Therefore, soap should be used with water for hand cleaning. Although normal solid hand soaps and liquid soaps do not differ in their effects, solid soaps can be a source of contamination due to the environment in which they are stored and the use by the wearer of the soaps usually after cleaning. Therefore, the use of liquid soaps should be preferred in hand cleaning, especially in public places. When liquid soap is taken, small amounts that are consumed quickly should be preferred to prevent the growth of harmful microbes.
If we gain the right hand washing habit in terms of personal and public health and we can vaccinate this habit to our environment, we will take a big step to prevent many infectious diseases and foodborne diseases.
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Method Foaming Hand Soap, Sweet Water, 10 Fl. Oz (Pack of 6), Hand Wash Dispenser with Pump