Close your eyes and think, what do our hands do? This hand is used for everything from using the computer to digging the fields. What does this hand not do? He scrubs, weeds plants, washes clothes, runs a computer, digs a car, lifts heavy things. Of course, hands are used to do any work. Not only for working, but also for eating. Now you have to eat rice with the hand that used to hold the rice.
Now you have to eat bread with the hand that used to turn the pages of the book. Thus, it is important to clean the hands that are used in everything before eating any food.
Because our hands touch and handle so many things throughout the day that harmful bacteria can easily get there. When we ingest such bacteria through food, it starts to infect the stomach. To what extent, this type of infection has risks ranging from spreading parasites in the stomach to causing damage to the intestines. Therefore, before eating any food, you should wash your hands in this way, so that no infection spreads to the stomach.
You should also know how to wash your hands
When common people do not have knowledge about hand hygiene, various infectious diseases can spread through the health institutions due to the negligence of the health workers working in the society and in the hospital.
The use of masks and hand hygiene were very important to avoid the risk of covid infection. Infections spread through food and water also enter the body through hands. Therefore, it is important to pay attention to hand hygiene. Diseases like cholera, typhoid, hepatitis 'A' and 'E', ringworm, stomach infection are spread through hands. Similarly, hand hygiene is also important to avoid infections such as colds and influenza.
How many infectious diseases enter the body through hands
Now the biggest disaster in Nepal is 'antibiotic resistant bacteria'. If a person reaches the hospital after an accident and has to be put on a ventilator, the death is due to pneumonia or other infections caused by 'antibiotic resistant germs' rather than the cause of the accident.
The risk of such antibiotic resistant germs spreading from one patient to another is very high. The main way to prevent such an infection from spreading from one person to another is hand hygiene.
In order to avoid various infectious diseases, all the health workers working in the hospital, patients and relatives of the patients should pay attention to hand hygiene. Along with hand hygiene in the hospital, infection control and isolation procedures should also be followed. And only the risk of 'antibiotic resistant bacteria' can be avoided.
How to clean hands?
The best way to keep your hands clean is to wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds. If it is not possible to wash your hands with soapy water, you can also use a sanitizer with 60% alcohol.
Liquid soaps are now available in the market as there is a risk of infection spreading through many people using the same soap. But if liquid soap is not available, various infections can be avoided by using solid soap. Transferring to another person as soap destroys germs on hands
In what cases should you wash your hands?
It is important to wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water before cooking, eating and after eating. Also, if you are treating a sick or injured person, you should wash your hands thoroughly with soap and water before touching your eyes, after using the toilet, after sneezing and coughing.
What is the correct way to wash hands?
According to the World Health Organization, the correct way to wash hands is to reduce the risk of various germs and infections by cleaning hands:
- Wet your hands with water.
- Rub the soap well on your hands to remove foam.
-Then wash your hands for 20 seconds. Rub well on back of hands, wrists, between fingers, palms and inside of nails.
-Then wash both hands thoroughly with water.
- Finally, wipe and dry your hands with a clean towel.
