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INTRODUCTION

Hola Steemians once more welcome to my blog. My discussion will be based on Health, personal hygiene to be precise.

Hand washing helps reduce the spread of germs since the hands is one good agent of disease circulation.

I'll be discussing more on this topic, check out my outlines below so you won't get lost;

• What activities should we wash hands before or after doing them and the proper way to wash hands.

• Reason why running water and liquid soap is prescribed as a better way of washing the hands and what one can do if there's no running water from a tap.

• What are some diseases that can be prevented by washing hands regularly and things to do to create more awareness for hand washing.

What activities should we wash hands before or after doing them and the proper way to wash hands

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Washing of hands is one aspect of personal hygiene we shouldn't joke with since it's the same hand we use in taking food into our mouth.

There are several activities one should wash hands before or after doing them. I'll be listing few below.

• Wash your hands before and after preparing food.
• We should wash our hands before and after eating.
• After making use of the toilet we should wash our hands.
• Make sure you wash your hands when injured.
• Wash your hands after sneezing, coughing or even taking out flu.
• Wash your hands after playing with animals.
• The hands should be washed after outdoor activities.
• Wash your hands after handling animal feeds.

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Washing the hands is not just pouring water on your hands with soap, there are steps to do this better. Check below:

• Wet your hands with water (warm or cold) from a runny tap, you can off it while you make use of soap.
• Scrub your wet hands with the soap and make sure your hands get circulated with the soap lather.
• Scrub your hands thoroughly, the back side of your hands,in between the fingers and the nails too for atleast 15-20 seconds.
• After scrubbing your hands thoroughly, turn the tap while it's rushing out water rinse your hand very well.
• Then dry with a clean towel or air dry your hands.

In a case where there's no soap, one can use a Hand sanitizer since it contains about 60% alcohol which isn't friendly with germs. I believe with the above descriptions we are good to go.

Reason why running water and liquid soap is prescribed as a better way of washing the hands and what one can do if there's no running water from a tap

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It's best using runny water from a tap to wash hands than washing hands direct from a basin because the water in the basin can get contaminated too so the other is better.

Most persons prefer the use of liquid soap because it reduces the spread or exchange of germs since one does not touch the soap like a bar soap. It also produces more lather than the bar soap. With these few reasons some persons feel it's the best.

If there's no water from a runny tap you can ask for helping hands from someone. Someone else can pour water on your hands perhaps from a bucket while you wash your hands with soap and rinse perfectly to the floor.

What are some diseases that can be prevented by washing hands regularly and things to do to create more awareness for hand washing

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We know very well that the major reason why we wash our hands is to reduce the spread of germs. I'll be telling us some diseases that can be prevented by washing hands regularly, check them out:

• It saves you from contacting Conjunctivitis also know as Pink eye as a result of itchy eyes.
• Prevention of Hand-foot-and-mouth disease.
• Prevention from flu.
• It saves one from disease like E. Coli in the aspect of red meat, etc, which can be spread when in contact with an infected person.
• Prevention from staph and many others.

One major factor to create awareness for people involve themselves in this hygiene is to educate them on the importance and effect of failing to do so. Also going further to show them steps on how to wash their hands.

Conclusion

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Personal hygiene is a practice everyone of us must indulge in so as to save not only ourselves but also others close to us. One good hygiene is hand washing since if one fails to practice such person is exposing his/her body system to illness.

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