Clean Hands, Clean World

This article is about how easy it is to get germs or bacterias and asks readers to make a change and start washing their hands with soap. The article says that it doesn’t matter how many times you wash your hands, it’s never going to be 100% clean from germs. This article is very useful because with it we can see the many things we can go to avoid germs and with that, we also avoid getting sick and pass diseases to others.

That can cause us infections and there are two main classes of infections those that you get from the things around you; and those that are associated with you getting some health care, such as in a hospital. First, community-based infections, if we compare school kids who wash their hands four times each day, with kids that don't wash their hands at all. We can see that the ones who wash their hands have 24 % fewer sick days due to infections, and 51% few days off due to stomach problems. So this article suggests us to wash our hands at least 3 times a day.

This article also talks about how infections can affect our health conditions and how we hospitals affect you from picking up an infection in a hospital if you don’t take care of washing your hands when touching in things that are not clean etc. “One out of every 136 hospital patients gets seriously ill from picking up an infection in a hospital, which works out to 2 million cases each year. Out of those, about 80,000 people die.” So we can see that lots of people die because of infections in hospitals and also outside of hospitals.

Lots of bad things have happened. In a nursery with 45 healthcare workers, one person who was a carrier for antibiotic-resistant golden staph did not wash their hands — and they set off an epidemic. In another hospital, a single respiratory therapist had chronic sinusitis with antibiotic-resistant golden staph. And because they did not wash their hands, and set off a hospital-wide epidemic that infected 32 people. So we have to be careful and always wash your hands.

This article is also telling people to help this foundation that makes people more aware of that. I really liked this article and it interests me because its something that I and my family are aware of. We wash our hands every time we go eat. And I lot of people are not aware of that and don’t wash their hands that often and they may get infections because of these bacteria that we can’t see and that are hard to take away from our hands. We have to use soap and the right temperature so they go away.

I think that my brother had a type of infection because of not washing his hands and also by walking around the house without shoes. Like we saw in this article, many people die because of simple infections. There are more than 2 million cases every year and out of those, 80,000 people die. So we have to be aware and do our best not to have these problems and infections on our lives.

http://www.ecorazzi.com/2012/03/05/clean-hands-clean-world-takes-aim-at-hand-washing-giveaway/