When washing your hands, be sure to scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds and dry with a clean towel or air dry them.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers these recommendations for when you should wash your hands:
- Before, during and after preparing food
- Before eating food
- Before and after caring for someone who is sick
- Before and after treating a cut or wound
- After using the toilet
- After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has used the toilet
- After blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing
- After touching an animal, animal food or treats, or animal waste
- After touching garbage
When washing your hands, be sure to scrub your hands for at least 20 seconds and dry with a clean towel or air dry them.
Keeping one another safe and germ-free is in everyone’s hands. Wash your hands today and every day. You might just save a life.
