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Someone with the flu cover his nose with his hand when sneezing, then memagang handle on the bus, when you hold the handle, the flu bacteria can quickly switch to your hands and if you hold your nose or mouth, germs can get into our bodies. That picture of how easily germs move from one person to another.

Diseases such as diarrhea, intestinal worms, Acute Respiratory Infections (ARI), tuberculosis and even deadly diseases such as SARS, avian influenza (H5N1) and swine influenza (H1N1) can be prevented by washing hands properly. Unfortunately, many people who crumble these healthy habits and do not consider it important. And with good hand washing with, your life and family can be healthier.


How to wash hands properly

Proper hand washing should use soap and under running water. While the measures proper hand washing techniques are as follows.

- Wet hands with water under a faucet or running water.

- Take enough liquid soap to the entire hand. It would be better if the soap contains

  antiseptic.

- Rub your palms together.

- Rub down to the fingertips.

- The palm of the hand rubs the back of his left hand (or vice versa) with a radius of one another

  lock (intermittent) between right and left hand. Rub it between your fingers.

  Do the opposite.

- Put your finger back to back one another and interlock fingers.
- Rub the right thumb with left palm with a rotary motion. Do the

  same with the left thumb.

- Rub your palms with the back of the fingers of one hand with the movement forward, backward

  and spins. Do the opposite.

- Hold your right wrist with his left hand and do the twist. Do it anyway

  for the left hand.

- Clean the soap from your hands with running water.
- Dry hands with a tissue and when using the faucet, close the faucet with a tissue.
Drying with a tissue better than dry hands using a hand dryer is common in the mall. Because a hand dryer that is used in general to accommodate lots of bacteria that can infect other people.


When to wash 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 disposing of garbage, after touching animals or animal waste.

You should also teach good hand washing habits to your child this young. A child is happy to learn about and touch things without knowing whether the object is dirty or not. Then put his hand into the mouth or eating without washing hands. As a result the child may suffer from the disease. According to research, child number one killer disease in Indonesia is due to diarrhea, although this can be prevented by teaching children to wash hands.
Given the importance of washing hands, then every ladder October 15 was declared as the World Hand Washing Day. Familiarize yourself and your family to wash their hands right now.