Do not underestimate the Hand Hygiene!

Let's realize together that health is one of the essential foundations of a nation's progress! Do not just hope that science and technology that can make a big nation. Health, have a crucial stake there!

Infectious diseases can be prevented with simple and inexpensive steps such as washing hands with soap. A study conducted Katie Greendland from the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, UK, found that washing hands with soap at critical time may prevent diarrhea by up to 47 percent.

Conversely, do not wash hands with soap at critical moments can cause diarrhea, including cholera, pneumonia, influenza pandemic, the new-born infections, and infections among AIDS patients.

The bacteria that cause diarrhea are actually derived from human waste brought flies, water, soil, and fingers that pollute the food. Prevention is very simple, ie, good sanitation and hand washing with soap.

World Health Organization (WHO) also stated that both of our hands is the main route entry of germs into the body. That is why, in addition to running a healthy lifestyle, the habit of washing hands with soap will reduce and prevent the occurrence of disease.

Wash hands with soap should be done at critical times, namely before eating, before handling food, after cleaning up the baby, after using the toilet, and before feeding children.

Wash hands before handling food aimed at preventing the spread of the bacteria that cause food poisoning. Handwashing with soap is also obliged to do before and after processing raw meat.

Meanwhile, after using the toilet or cleaning the baby's diapers, wash hands with soap will reduce the risk of infectious diseases such as hepatitis A and salmonella.