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Medical Corner steps to wash your hands

Are Germs

Winning?

Heres The Right Way to

Wash Your Hands

• Enter a hospital, doctor’s office, nursing

home, or other healthcare setting
• Clean and treat a cut, burn, or wound
ashing your hands is vital to
• Take medication, such as pills or eye drops
prevent germ transmission, es-
• Use public transportation, especially if you
W pecially in situations like food
touch railings and other surfaces
preparation, eating, healthcare visits, us-
• Touch your phone or other mobile device
ing public transport, handling money,
• Go to the grocery store.
and touching surfaces or animals. Proper
handwashing involves wetting hands, ap-
After you:
plying soap, lathering for 20 seconds, rins-
• Cough, sneeze, or blow your nose
ing, and drying thoroughly. This method
• Touch visibly dirty surfaces, or when there’s
helps stop the spread of viruses and other
visible dirt on your hands
germs effectively.
• Handle money or receipts
Washing your hands is particularly im- • Have touched a gas pump handle, atm, el-
portant when you’re in situations where evator buttons, or pedestrian crossing but-

you’re more likely to acquire or transmit tons
germs. This includes: • Shake hands with others
• Have used the bathroom
Before And After You: • Change diapers or clean bodily waste off
• Before, during, and after you prepare others
food • Touch or handle garbage
• Consume foods or drinks • Touch animals, animal feed, or waste

• Are exposed to someone with an infec- • Touch fertiliser
tious illness • Handle pet food or treats

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