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How to wash your hands is easy!! heres how:

  • Use soap and warm, running water.
  • Keep fingers pointing down.
  • Rub hands together for 20 seconds.
    • Wash all surfaces including:
    • Backs of hands
    • Wrists
    • Between fingers
    • Tips of fingers
    • Thumbs
    • Under fingernails—nailbrush is best

    • Dry with paper or clean cloth towel.

      Turn off faucet with towel and open door with towel.

  • The best times to wash your hands are:
     
  • Before, during, and after you prepare food
  • Before you eat, and after you use the bathroom
  • After handling animals or animal waste
  • When your hands are dirty, and
  • More frequently when someone in your home is sick.
  • If you wash your hands at least 5 times a day you will stay healthy and clean!!!

    What happens if you do not wash your hands frequently? 

    You pick up germs from other sources and then you infect yourself when you

    • Touch your eyes
    • Or your nose
    • Or your mouth.

    One of the most common ways people catch colds is by rubbing their nose or their eyes after their hands have been contaminated with the cold virus.

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