In addition, a global hand washing day was established. Global Hand-washing Day was initiated by PPPHW, calling on countries all over the world to carry out hand-washing activities with soap in June 5438+1October 65438+May every year.
The World Health Organization (WHO) initiated it in 2005 and ended it on June 10 and June 13 of that year, with the aim of calling on the whole world to strengthen health awareness and prevent infectious diseases through the simple but important action of "washing hands".
Precautions:
1. Washing hands with clean water is far from enough to wash off bacteria.
Washing hands only with water is a common practice all over the world, and its efficiency is far lower than washing hands with soap or hand sanitizer. Proper hand washing requires soap or hand sanitizer and only a small amount of water. Use soap or hand sanitizer to destroy the grease and dirt that carry most germs on your hands, and wash them off by rubbing and adding water. All soaps or hand sanitizers can remove pathogenic bacteria equally effectively as long as they are used correctly.
Washing hands with soap or hand sanitizer helps to prevent all kinds of germs that threaten children's lives.
Washing hands with soap is one of the most effective ways to prevent diarrhea and pneumonia, which are the main causes of child death. Every year, more than 3.5 million children cannot celebrate their fifth birthday because of diarrhea and pneumonia.
Hand washing can also prevent skin infections, eye infections, intestinal parasites, SARS and avian influenza, which is beneficial to the health of AIDS patients and HIV carriers. Research shows that hand washing can effectively prevent the spread of diseases, even in overcrowded and highly polluted slum environment.
3. The key moments of hand washing include: after going to the toilet, after cleaning the child's ass, and before touching food.
Wash your hands after going to the toilet, cleaning your child's buttocks (or other places that come into contact with human feces, including babies and children), and before touching any food. Hand is the main carrier of pathogenic bacteria. At these critical moments, it is very important to ensure that people can wash their hands in any way. Even in the poorest communities, simple and cheap methods can be realized economically and technically, such as tilting faucets (or dripping faucets).