Health For Everone Q&A Women’s Health

Are you washing your hands correctly?

Asked by:Sand

Asked on:Apr 02, 2026 11:46 AM

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  • Clair Clair

    Apr 02, 2026

      Let’s start with the most common thing in life: hand washing. Let’s do a little test first:

      1. Do you wash your hands after eating and using the toilet?

      2. Did the hand sanitizer stay in your hand for 15 seconds or longer?

      3. Do you often use public hand sanitizer and soap in public places?

      4. There are 6 steps to washing hands, including the palms, backs of hands, between fingers, fingertips, thumbs, and wrists. How many of them have you taken care of?

      The above four problems are the most common in life, and most people ignore them.

      We usually rely on hand sanitizer and water, but it is difficult to drive bacteria out of the house. The correct method of hand washing is not only to achieve surface decontamination, but also to use more scientific methods to eliminate stubborn bacteria. But 90% of people don’t wash their hands properly, allowing the virus to take advantage of it.

      Ninety percent of people wash their hands incorrectly

      The first step is to wash your hands:

      Wet your hands with running water, apply hand sanitizer (or soap), palms facing each other, and rub your fingers together;

      The second step is to wash the back and side fingertips:

      Rub the palms of your hands together along the backs of your hands along the gaps between your fingers, and exchange hands.;

      Step 3: Wash the palmar fingertips:

      With palms facing each other, cross your hands and rub each other along the fingers.;

      Step 4: Wash your thumbs:

      Hold the thumb of the other hand with one hand, rotate it and rub it, and switch hands.;

      Step 5: Wash the back of your fingers:

      Bend each finger joint, half-make a fist, put the back of the fingers on the palm of the other hand, rotate and rub, and switch hands.;

      Step 6: Wash your fingertips:

      Bend each finger joint, put the fingertips together in the palm of the other hand, rotate and rub, and switch hands.;

      Step 7: Wash your wrists

      Arms: Rub your wrists and arms, switching hands.

      I used to think that washing hands was a strenuous task: press the hand sanitizer, scrub your hands, turn on the faucet after 3 seconds, rinse your hands immediately after the foam comes out, press the faucet, pull out a few paper towels, and done.

      Now we find that more than 90% of our friends are wrong. Not only do we misunderstand the procedures for washing hands, but we also ignorantly misunderstand this important healthy The pass is closed to this day.

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