Recently I met an interesting eccentricity. It turned out that some people refuse to hand washing. They believe that by doing so demonstrate their commitment to the advanced modern medicine. Children are people on the street do not Kuta, antibacterial soap is not used, an ice cream treat angina. Well done, right? The problem is that such entities fall into inertia in medical nihilism. This means that they are denied everything that is possible. Including regular hand-washing.
Here is how the actual state of affairs. Humans and animals are shit. With poop different germs released into the environment. Including all kinds of malware such as salmonella, certain strains of E. coli, and even viruses. These germs get on your hands after using the toilet or changing diapers child. It happens that this stuff gets on your hands after touching raw meat. Because on the meat may be imperceptible traces of feces of animals.
Sick people cough or sneeze, and then his hands grasping at doorknobs and other objects. So, too, is transmitted infection.
Now let's imagine that people started to wash their hands with soap and water. In this case, the infection is washed away from the skin of hands and is not transmitted to other people. The fact is that we often touching your eyes, nose or mouth. And we do not even notice it. germs and get into our body through the eyes, nose and mouth.
It would be good to teach all people to wash their hands before touching your face!
And it turns out that someone has already tried to teach. Literally we conducted special studies. People trained and then tested. It turned out that people are trained on 30% less likely to suffer from diarrhea [1] and 20% lower respiratory infections [2].
Why is it important? Because diarrhea and pneumonia - that, for example, the major killers of children worldwide [3]. It is not so funny, is not it?
That would all come to their senses and began to wash his hands after using the toilet! You know how many people actually come to their senses and to wash their hands after using the toilet? They are only 19% [4]. Such sad statistics.
sources
1. Ejemot RI E. al. Hand washing for preventing diarrhoea. - PubMed - NCBI [Electronic resource]. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18254044.
2. Rabie T And Curtis. Handwashing and risk of respiratory infections: a quantitative systematic review. - PubMed - NCBI [Electronic resource]. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16553905.
3. Liu L E. al. Global, regional, and national causes of child mortality: an updated systematic analysis for 2010 with time trends since 2000. - PubMed - NCBI [Electronic resource]. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22579125.
4. Freeman MC E. al. Hygiene and health: systematic review of handwashing practices worldwide and update of health effects. - PubMed - NCBI [Electronic resource]. URL: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24889816.
