Hand hygiene is the most effective method to prevent infections, capable of preventing 85-90% of diseases transmitted through contact. Proper hand hygiene involves washing hands for 40-60 seconds with soap and water, or using hand sanitizer with 60-70% alcohol for 20-30 seconds until it completely evaporates. Key moments for hand hygiene include before and after eating, after using the washroom, after touching garbage or pets, and when handling patients. While no alternative method like using spoons or tissues can replace proper hand washing, clean tissues or napkins can be used for drying hands after washing. This practice is essential for everyone, especially healthcare workers, caregivers, and individuals with compromised immune systems.
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any product for that matter. Regular soaps and it may not clear the bacteria.
However, we are at a stable immunity level.
It will be healthy for us, autoimmune disorders, bone marrow transplant patients.
Routine soap washing will not help.
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So complete handy especially and elderly age group and like I said cancer patients bone marrow transplant patient handy longing patients maybe helpers family members Pat instructions at every time.
We train them.
medications.
Apart from this inhouse instructions who it is advocating that not only patients patient attenders hand hygiene training especially during hand hygiene week, hand hygiene month or hand hygiene day. Patients and their attenders have to be trained on proper steps of hand hygiene. With COVID 19, just about every house, every household, every individual is trained with the steps of hand hygiene. Not much required now. But when you have patients long-standing patients at home caregivers should follow hand sanitiz That again depends patient continuous diarrhea pat depending on the patient's condition.
These attenders are trained as to what to do when when to do hand rum and when to do hand wash. So madam world action saves lives. Yes. So hand washicular so habit it's a small habit it will take some few seconds so maybe Okay. Healthy any minutes any minutes soap viewers.
>> Okay. Um like I said hand sanitizer 20 to 30 seconds rupe hands completely >> and that sanitizer should be having it should have 60 to 70% alcohol hand sanitely evaporate this is called dry time completely evaporate. We can go and touch something else.
>> Something else.
>> When it comes to hand wash, like I said, 40 to 60 seconds. Hand wash. Again, we can go for a clean tissue or a clean napkin. Preferably air dry top layer.
That is why usually air dry is preferable. But wet hands completely dry. They will have to wait for a long time. Clean tissues and clean napkin aside. It's fine.
>> Clean tissue, clean napkin. That is a big subject.
>> That is a separate separate subject.
Market tissues or napkins >> because they come packed. They may not be contaminated because they come packed. It is okay. We can use >> material is it proper?
>> It's Yeah. Yeah. The ones that are commercially available, they're fine.
Okay.
Crossroads nowadays. And are they really safe?
>> They are safe. I won't say they are safe or unsafe. We don't know.
We don't know how safe it is.
>> But uh routine daily activities low. If you don't trust tissues, you can always go for napkins. Napkins. Napkins will be there. But clean napkins should be there.
It'll be fine.
Is it safe to go eat with a spoon? Which is better? No. See and Indian cooking some foods you can't have with spoon at all in in uh any other way uh at any given point of time irrespective of spoon or hand feeding always you should wash your hands irrespective >> irrespective of how you're eating uh because completely spoon feed we can cannot ensure that and then there are some foods like um I said salmonella salmonella infection infections Eoli infection.
Uh so spoon will not ensure that your food may not get contaminated or you will not get infected. 100% it is a social moment of hand hygiene. You have to wash your hands before food.
>> Edible spoons, chopsticks. So so many other alternatives. So alternate madam for washing hands.
>> No nothing is an alternative for washing your hands.
>> So you have to wash your hands.
spoons contaminate. How sure are you that it will not contaminate your food and how clean is your spoon? You don't know any of that. Nothing is an substitute for hand hygiene.
>> So handy compulsory wash calls. Okay. So sanitizer who has advocated moments. These moments are applicable to healthare workers and before touching a patient after touching a patient. Apart from that healthare workers routine general common man before having food before after using the washroom after touching garbage after handling pets and as and when you're handling patients at home >> these are the moments of hand hygiene every two hours.
So these five moments as in when you're coming across encountering these moments yes infection skin infectionalist to keep our skin healthy and to not have it dry to prevent it from drying. So continues handy only when it is indicated.
>> It is indicated.
Social moment should be fine.
approximately >> I would say hand hygiene will save at least 85 to 90% of the diseases infection they transmit by contact transmission airborne transmission there are few viral and bacterial infections remaining food born, waterborn, food infections, water infections that is because of unhygienic food practices or water disinfections.
Then that is a separate category. Uh when it comes to hospital settings or home settings, major infections, most of the infections can be prevented by proper hand hygiene.
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