Why do you need a hand wash?
Hand washing is a simple business but very important to make the child is not sick easily.
Already a few days the little sick. You as a parent immediately make a direct treatment, by presenting healthy food and inviting them to do physical activity. But, still, they are not healed? If so, there may be an attempt that a child is often forgotten before eating the food you give, which is hand washing.
Both in adults and children, the hands are the nest of various germs of illness. For whatever activity is done, sure hands are never absent in holding objects, whether they are private objects or public facilities. Sure you can't guarantee that all the objects you touch are hygienic, right?
Reasons for the child to wash hands
Well, because you can not guarantee that the objects held by the little in the house or school is hygienic, from now teach him to wash hands diligently before and after activity. Especially when he was about to eat and drink. Also, children do not have the body endurance as perfect as adults, so children need to wash their hands so that they are not easily infected with the disease.
Moreover, the research mentions, washing hands with soap and running water proved to reduce the risk of diarrhea by up to 50%. "This action is also proven effective in reducing the rate of infection of the disease, especially in children under the age of 5 years.
Maybe at first, you will have trouble expel the lazy feeling of the little ones. And they also reasoned that "his hands were clean" (yes, because they could not see any dirt in the hands). However, don't be discouraged!
Stay patient in teaching hand washing and give them concrete examples. For, who knows they are lazily cleaning hands because you and your spouse are also rarely seen washing your hands before and after the activity. So, you also have to familiarize yourself so that the child samples good habits.
Diseases that lurk when a lazy child hand washing
If the little one rarely washes hands, several diseases lurk them, such as:
> Diarrhea. This disease is commonly caused by bacteria. Worse, the diarrhea sufferer who does not wash hands but direct contact with the hand of a healthy person can move the bacteria and cause diarrhea in the person.
> Hepatitis A. Although the most commonly experienced is diarrhea, it does not close the possibility that the child and you can be attacked by Hepatitis A if you never wash your hands. When viral hepatitis enters the body and impairs liver function, the symptoms can be fever, yellow body, and upper right abdominal pain.
> Acute respiratory infections. Not only from the air, apparently the transmission of acute respiratory infections, in particular, cough cold, can be through a hand-breasted that often touches the face.
> Scabies. The disease is caused by mites that enter the epidermis causing itching. Well, when the child is exhausted from animals, such as dogs or cats affected by scabies, encourage them to immediately wash their hands thoroughly so as not to be infected, or even bathe all.
In order not to be infected by one of the diseases that have been mentioned, please wash your hands, yes. If you have not found washbasin or other flowing clean water sources and soap, use a hand sanitizer that contains alcohol at least 60%.
When to wash your hands
Already knowing the reason behind the importance of handwashing, it is time to know the right time for the little one (even you!) to wash your hands. The time is as follows:
1. When your hands look dirty
2. Before touching the food (before cutting and cooking too, yes!)
3. After using the bathroom
4. After coughing or sneezing
5. After touching pets and wild animals
6. After the activity outdoors
7. Before and after visiting the sick relatives
Proper handwashing way
Knowing when the right time to wash your hands is incomplete if you don't understand how to wash your hands properly. Because, if the little only random in cleaning his hands, it is certainly a germ of the disease still left in the tiny palm. So, here's the right-hand wash steps:
1. Use cold water or warm water (not hot water because it can make skin dry)
2. Use SOAP rod or liquid soap.
3. Rub the soap on the hand to cause foam, then clean between the fingers, nails, soles, until the wrist. The finger and nail arts are very important to be cleaned because that is where the usual germs hide.
4. Perform the activity for 15-20 seconds.
5. After that, rinse with running water. If you want to turn off tap water, use the back of your hand so that the inner hand is not affected anymore.
6. Dry using a clean tissue or towel and finish.
Not hard, right? For that, there is no more reason for you and the little one for lazy hand washing. Because by doing such a simple and inexpensive effort, children can avoid various diseases that endanger their health. So, get used to washing your hands frequently, and happy world Washing day!