Washing of hands has proven effective to avoid microbes getting into one’s body
Washing of hands has proven effective to avoid microbes getting into one’s body. Otherwise, there would be significantly more cases of illnesses around the world. However, the fact that there are no reliable supplies of clean water in most parts of the world has been a huge blow to this necessary action. Using alcohol-based hand sanitizer is the most effective method one can use to clean their hands. This method requires no water and is easily accessible. Alcohol-based hand sanitizers significantly reduce Escherichia coli bacteria on the body surface that may have gotten it artificially. However, the use of hand sanitizers is less effective with visibly dirty hands. Despite this fact, it remains the most efficient way to clean one’s hands in an environment where there are limited water and soap supply.
Introduction
Hand hygiene is basic and adherence to it has strategically cut down the problem of respiratory and gastrointestinal illnesses. Hand sanitizers are not a competition or a replacement for hand washing. Instead, they bring to the users’ benefits of clean hands when it is not practical to wash hands. Maintaining hands clean prevents the possibility of pathogens spreading through the fecal-oral route and to food and drinking water. Laboratory studies indicate that hand sanitizers enable prevent infections by inactivating transient pathogenic bacteria.
Places with high population density primarily need effective methods to curb disease infection. Crowded places that overwhelmingly experience large numbers of human traffic are at a high risk of infection due to increased exposure to germs. (Hilbur 2003). The base of this underlying problem is eminent in the fact that there are so many people who do not adhere to proper sanitation practices. Populations groups such as students often are the most vulnerable to this because they rarely wash hands with soap or sanitize their hands. It is because of this shallow negligence in areas like schools and daycares that become breeding ground and spread channels for pathogen distribution.
Efforts to implement the usage of hand sanitizers have been limited in many ways. They may be spiced with many different active ingredients, but alcohol has always been the major ingredient in the making of hand sanitizers. have you ever noticed that most hand sanitizers use alcohol as the active ingredient? That is largely a result of how they are regulated. There have been continuous sanitation improvements on society, these include the installation of hand sanitizer dispensers in the washrooms and increasing budget and funding for education on hygiene. Installation of automatic sensor faucets that do not require contact with the handle is also a major concern since it does not give a chance for the microbes to continue with their chain. Despite some implementations going through, the failure of the public to use them limits the whole intention since people do not like the use of force to adopt new strategies. Instead, user-friendly ways will work positively since people will easily do the task of sanitizing their hands in a convenient, appropriate and easiest way possible. This is a problem since it only takes a few people to spread the microbes. Contamination can reduce if we automate sanitizer dispensers. It disallows the continuous chain of people touching it, contaminating it or taking away germs from it.
The focus is to decrease the amount of time people spend cleaning their hands. If successful, this solution would decrease the rates of infections by pathogens acquired artificially in normal daily activities of people, create a healthier environment and maintain a healthy lifestyle. Most importantly, over repeated uses, the solution will cause the populace to adapt to correct hand-cleaning habits that can be practiced through the rest of their lives.