When do When You Wash Your Hands ?

Hand washing is generally done just before eating, before preparing food, after handling raw meat, before and after touching a sick person, after using the bathroom, after coughing or sneezing or blowing your nose, after changing diapers or pads, before and after treating wounds, after cleaning or taking out the trash, after touching animals or animal waste.

You also should teach good hand washing habits are to your child is still small. A happy child learn about and touch things without knowing whether the object is dirty or not. Then insert his hand into the mouth or eating without washing hands. As a result the child may suffer from the disease. According to research, the number 1 killer disease of children in Indonesia is due to diarrhea, although this can be prevented by teaching children to wash hands.

Given the importance of washing hands, so any steps proclaimed October 15th as Global Handwashing Day. Familiarize yourself and your family to wash their hands right now.