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| Wash Your Hands Properly |
Why Must Wash Hands?
Someone with the flu cover his nose with his hand when sneezing, then holds the handle on the bus, when you hold the handle, the flu bacteria can quickly switch to your hands 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 influenza (H5N1) and swine influenza (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 with, your life and family can be healthier.
How to wash Your hands properly :
Proper hand washing should use soap and under running water. While the measures proper hand washing techniques are as follows.
- Wet hands with water under a faucet or running water.
- Take just enough liquid soap to the entire 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 the hand left hand (or vice versa) with the fingers interlocked (alternating) between right and left hand. Rub it between your fingers. Do the opposite.
- Put one finger backs with the back of the fingers and interlock.
- Apply 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 his left hand and do the twist. Do the same for the left hand.
- Clean the soap from your hands under running water.
- Dry hands with a tissue and when using the faucet, close the faucet with a tissue.
Drying with a tissue better than dry hands using a hand dryer is common in the mall. Because a hand dryer that is used in general to accommodate lots of bacteria that can infect other people.
