Clean Hands Save Lives!

• It is best to wash your hands with soap and warm water for 20 seconds.
• When water is not available, use alcohol-based products (sanitizers).
• Wash hands before preparing or eating food and after going to the bathroom.
• Keeping your hands clean helps you avoid getting sick.

When should you wash your hands?

• Before preparing or eating food
• After going to the bathroom
• After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has gone to the bathroom
• Before and after caring for someone who is sick
• After handling uncooked foods, particularly raw meat, poultry, or fish
• After blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
• After handling an animal or animal waste
• After handling garbage
• Before and after treating a cut or wound
• After handling items contaminated by flood water or sewage
• When your hands are visible dirty

Using alcohol-based sanitizers

• Apply product to the palm of one hand.
• Rub hands together.
• Rub product over all surfaces of hands and fingers until hands are dry.
• Note: the volume needed to reduce the number of germs varies by product.

Washing with soap and water

• Place your hands together under water (warm if possible).
• Rub your hands together for at least 20 seconds (with soap if possible).
• Wash your hands thoroughly, including wrists, palms, back of hands, and under the fingernails.
• Clean the dirt from under fingernails
• Rinse the soap from your hands.
• Dry your hands completely with a clean towel if possible (this helps remove the germs), However, if towels are not available it is okay to air dry your hands.
• Pat your skin rather than rubbing to avoid chapping and cracking.
• If you use a disposable towel,  fuel efficient suv throw it in the trash.

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