In the United States, women wash their hands by 90% compared with men accounting for up to 75%, and that only 80% of Americans wash their hands after defecating in their homes, and nearly 30% of nurses wash their hands before dealing with patients, as well asthat there is a 27% do not wash their hands after changing the diaper, and 23% do not wash their hands before or after a meal, 80% do not wash their hands after touching money, 24% of men and 39% of women wash their hands after coughing or sneezing.
There are approximately 100 thousand enemy of hospitals due to contaminated hands, and that 100% of employees and workers in larger restaurants States were carrying leftover waste intestinal under their fingernails, and 12% of Americans only ones who are looking for a soap for washing hands in public restrooms.
In 1840 it was discovered that the contaminated hands of doctors infect patients, and then interest began to wash hands with soap and water, doctors and wear gloves.
Why insist on washing hands?
That the initiative to wash your hands did not come from a vacuum, Insisting on hand-washing is the only thing that prevents honestly transmission, especially that there are 250 million bacteria spread to human skin, and although it does not hurt, but it is important to remove microbes workers, because bacteria multiply every 20 minutes.
Badran added that pinworms infect 200 million people annually, and that million them to Aicherbon the, healthy water, where thousands die every day because of contaminated water.
Culture of handwashing
Some roads ideal for washing hands, which include:
- The use of clean running water warm, the water is hot at 45 degrees Celsius removes grease and thus microbes.
- Saponification: preferably liquid soap for 20 seconds at least.
- In the absence of soap: prefer to wash your hands with alcohol after washing hands with water and dry up.
- Scrub under the nails: reduce the amount of microbes lurking under the nails 350 times.
- Rinse hands thoroughly under running water after saponification to extend his 20 seconds.
- Hand drying paper handkerchiefs used once.


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