Healthy Me

According to an article in USA Today and the Chief Medical Editor of WebMD, 80% of infections are transported by touch. What does this tell you?

YOU HAVE TO WASH YOUR HANDS!

It's amazing (and kind of gross) how many people don't do this.

According to this article:

"Here's the drill: Scrub vigorously with water and soap until lather appears, making sure to get between your fingers and fingernails. Use a nail brush if you have one. Briskly dry with a towel.

Do it often and you'll stay a lot healthier — 24% less like to get a respiratory illness and 45% to 50% less likely to get a stomach bug, the World Health Organization says."

Not only should you wash your hands after using the restroom, you should wash after handling anything that others have handled for at least 20 seconds vigorously with lots of friction.

We don't have nail brushes and I'd hate to see what kind of germs would be living on those after four kids got done with using it once. That leaves a new issue of how to keep nail brushes sanitary in a bathroom environment - far from the most sanitary room in your house. Each person would have to have their own plus have some type of sanitizing procedure for each brush after it was used. I can't imagine how many kids we'd be able to get to do that! I also can't imagine how many busy moms would be hitting the bathroom after each child to do it for them. Then there is the "dropping them on the bathroom floor" like kids do, etc.

I hope vigorous washing is enough because there's no way I can see us having six nail brushes used and regularly kept sanitized in our bathroom.