
- It is best to wash your hands with soap and warm water for 20 seconds.
- When water is not available, use alcohol-based products (sanitizers).
- Wash hands before preparing or eating food and after going to the bathroom.
- Keeping your hands clean helps you avoid getting sick.
When should you wash your hands?
- Before preparing or eating food
- After going to the bathroom
- After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has gone to the bathroom
- Before and after caring for someone who is sick
- After handling uncooked foods, particularly raw meat, poultry, or fish
- After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
- After handling an animal or animal waste
- After handling garbage
- Before and after treating a cut or wound
- After handling items contaminated by flood water or sewage
- When your hands are visible dirty
Using alcohol-based sanitizers
- Apply product to the palm of one hand.
- Rub hands together.
- Rub product over all surfaces of hands and fingers until hands are dry.
- Note: the volume needed to reduce the number of germs varies by product.
Washing with soap and water
- Place your hands together under water (warm if possible).
- Rub your hands together for at least 20 seconds (with soap if possible).
- Wash your hands thoroughly, including wrists, palms, back of hands, and under the fingernails.
- Clean the dirt from under fingernails
- Rinse the soap from your hands.
- Dry your hands completely with a clean towel if possible (this helps remove the germs), However, if towels are not available it is okay to air dry your hands.
- Pat your skin rather than rubbing to avoid chapping and cracking.
- If you use a disposable towel, throw it in the trash.
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