Did anyone of you notice on how you wash your hands on daily basis…or you just simply damp it with soap and flush with water then “done”. As per research, many countries are not aware of proper way of washing hands or using soap for cleaning their hands. Around 38.7% households use soap to clean their hands while the rest are simply using water.

According to study, there are 6 critical times that you should wash your hands-on daily basis to avoid the fecal-oral transmission:

1. After defecation
2. After you sneeze or cough into your hands
3. After cleaning a child’s bottom
4. Before feeding a child
5. Before eating food or taking medicines
6. Before preparing food or handling raw meat, fish, or poultry

These are the steps of proper hand-washing from WordPress.Com (About Hand Washing) that can benefit all OFWs and families out there. Please check the illustration for easy reference:

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1. Begin by wetting your hands
2. Apply liquid soap on to your hands
3. Rub you hands together using friction at least 20 seconds.
4. Make sure as you scrub, you interlace your fingers downward.
5. Wash all surfaces of your hands and wrists
6. Dry hands on clean paper towels
7. Discard paper towels into trash container
8. Do not re-contaminate your hands at any point by touching the faucet or sink during after the process.

These are just the simple steps on washing hands but has more benefits into your health and other people as well. It is a proper way of eradicating bacteria in your working environment that causes contagious diseases such as eye infection and other intestinal problems. You can use sanitizer as alternative but it is still the best way to wash hands with adherence to procedure above.

Follow the simple steps, it saves you money, health and life!

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