Prowriters Hub (W6): Wash your hands regularly to stay healthy
Introduction
Washing your hands regularly is another means of staying healthy and prevent germs such as respiratory infections,influenza. Practice of washing hands regularly should be made a habit both at school, home, workplace, grocery stores, restaurant, one should be conscious of washing hands regularly.
Hello friends, welcome to another edition of taking care of your hands.
Source
What is the proper way to wash your hands?
- Wash your hands under a running water, wey your hands with clean running water.
- With the use of hand wash or liquid soap, collect a little portion of it and lather the hands by rubbing together.
- Let the right hand wash the left hands, remove dirt under the fingers.
- Scrub your hands for some seconds
- Rinse your hands under running water.
- Dry your hands with clean towels.
What activities should we wash hands before and after doing them?
- Wash your hands before and after using the restroom.
- Wash your hands before and after cooking.
- Wash your hands with soap and water before and after doing your shopping in a grocery store.
- Wash your hands after playing with pets and other animals.
- Wash your hands after touching your nose and ears.
- Wash your hands after cleaning up a child or baby.
- Wash your hands after treating wounds and cuts.
- Wash your hands before and after eating food and snacks.
- Wash your hands after blowing your nose,cough and sneezing.
- Wash your hands after disposing garbages.
Why is using running water and liquid soap the best?
Using running water and soap is the best because the water is flowing and washes off the germs immediately.
Using running water and liquid soap is better than using bar soap in workplace and restaurants. It's also the best way to prevent some gastroenteritis infection.
Using basin water, could get contaminated.
What are some diseases that can be prevented by washing hands regularly
Diseases such as noroviruses which causes gastroenteritis infections, salmonellosis can be prevented by washing of hands.
Some airborne diseases can be prevented by washing of hands.
Coronavirus can be prevented by talking care of your hands.
Nasocornial diseases can be prevented by washing hands.
What can be done to create awareness?
*By teaching younger ones the needs to wash hands and minor things it prevents.
- By teaching your children/kids the need to wash hands.
- By providing tools needed for washing hands in public places and in schools, churches and so on.
Conclusion
There is need to take care of your hands to stay healthy and prevent illness that makes one sick.
Stay healthy.
Always wash your hands.
Stay safe.
Thank you for reading.
Yesoo, it is very good that we wash our hand regular because is for our own benefit, it will make us avoid many diseases and be healthy.
Washing your hands with soap and water is the best way to stay healthy and prevent germs. There are many ways to wash your hands that can be used at home or in public.
So many germs will be prevented by the act of taking care of our hands. Thanks for visiting my blog.
Washing our hands is really good and we should form it as an habbit.
It makes us to be free from disease which may enter the body.
Washing your hands can be a little more difficult than it seems. First, make sure you have warm water and soap. You also need to make sure that you scrub your hands well with soap, as well as dry them completely. After washing your hands, it is important to dry them with a clean towel or air dry them.
Sometimes when we get sick,we don't really know the main cause of
@afshaan, permit me to ask, does it mean it's only warm water that's recommended to be used in washing hands?
We have supported this post. Keep on making great content in our community. Always check @steemalive for community updates. Thank you being an active member.
Washing our hands regularly is a good sign of good hygiene which we need to exercise in our daily life.
Thank you for your support.
Thank you for your support
It is recommended that you wash your hands after going to the bathroom, coughing, sneezing, touching your face, and before and after preparing food. If you are struggling to remember to wash your hands, set a reminder on your phone or calendar so that you will be reminded to wash your hands every day.
These things you mentioned that fyer doing them we should wash our hands to ensure safety and free from disease.
Nice article on washing the hands. You have made the point clear in this presentation. A lot can be avoided if we wash our hands. What you said below is very true about creating awareness for handwashing:
The more people see handwashing stations in many public places, the more they are likely to accept the culture of washing hands. Thank you for this valuable contribution.
Checking Post Quality
The writer has done well to add to what we already know about hand hygiene. Nothing compares to it . It is healthy practice. We shall practice it till the end of our lives.
Amongst the muslims, handwashing is a ritual practice that must be carried out for an acceptable act of worship. This shows just how important handwashing is and it must be adhered to
This is my first time of hearing this,is hand washing a festival to the Muslim??
So you don't know??
Haven't you been seeing Muslims around you wash their hands and feet before doing their act of worship?
This is an excellent writeup. washing of hands is very important like you said it will help us to prevent so many diseases like covid 19.and we should wash our hands after disposing our garbages.
Yes,we should endeavor to always keep our hands in a good condition by washing them and also try to sanitize them as well.
Yeah mam no doubt this will help kill any germs that might have been on your hands and keep you healthy.
Curated by @juzkid
SteemCor07 - Lifestyle Curation Team
Using running water to wash our hand is really the best way to keep our hands neat and also free from disease.