Handwashing

When to wash hands:

• After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing.
• Before and after using the bathroom.
• If the hands are contaminated.
• After touching animals, their food, or their waste.
• Before and after close contact with infected individuals.
• After playing.
• After touching the garbage.

How do you wash your hands?

• Wet your hands with water.
• Apply a sufficient amount of soap to cover the surface of the hand.
• Rub the soap using the palms of your hands.
• Rub the palm of one hand against the palm of the other hand, interlacing the fingers.
• Rub the palm of the right hand on the back of the left hand with the fingers overlapping and vice versa.
• Rub the back of the fingers with the palm of the other hand, bringing the fingers together.
• Vigorously rub circularly, with the fingers of the right hand cupped in the palm of the left hand and vice versa.
• Circularly rub the left thumb inside the palm of the right hand and repeat in reverse.
• Rinse your hands with water.
• Dry your hands well with a disposable towel.
• Use the towel to turn off the water tap.
• Your hands are now safe.

Duration: 40 to 60 seconds

How do you sterilize your hands with disinfectant solutions?

• Place one spray of the solution on the palm of your hand.
• Rub the palm of one hand against the palm of the other hand, interlacing the fingers.
• Rub the palm of the right hand on the back of the left hand with the fingers interlaced and vice versa.
• Rub the back of the fingers with the palm of the other hand, bringing the fingers together.
• Circularly rub the left thumb inside the palm of the right hand and repeat in reverse.
• Your hands are clean once they are dry.

Duration: 20 to 30 seconds