These diseases can be prevented through proper hand washing and by doing it regularly.
PROPER HAND WASHING – Here are the 15 types of diseases we can avoid as regular proper hand washing can prevent them.
Washing of your hands properly and regularly can ward of certain diseases coming from various viruses, germs, and bacteria. And experts consider this as among the basic hygiene key to keep a person healthy.
This is because the hands are very vulnerable being in contact with various people, animals, foods, and surfaces which leads to high risk of picking up thousands of germs, bacteria, viruses and others. And once these things enters the body, it causes diseases as these can enter through the eyes, noses, and mouths.
Here are the illnesses you can avoid through proper washing of hands:
- Coronavirus – The recent pandemic is due to the new strain of coronavirus affecting the respiratory system.
- Norovirus – This needs only one to make you sick and by doing this basic hygienic act, you can prevent assorted gastrointestinal misery.
- Flu – This happens when you have unknowingly exposed yourself to a flu germs and forgot to wash it off in the hands.
- Pink eye – This is also known as conjunctivitis where the eyes become ooey, gooey, and super itchy.
- Salmonellosis – Living in the intestines of animals and people, transmission happens through uncooked foods or unwashed fruits.
- Mononucleosis – You can be infected through saliva not only by kissing but also via sneeze, cough, or touch.
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease – This is caused by coxsackievirus.
- Cytomegalovirus – Pregnant women are prone to this kind of this disease caused by virus in the herpes family. This could result to serious harm on your unborn child such as hearing and vision loss, intellectual disability, and worse, death.
- Staph – This is a bacteria found in the skin and can get dangerous if it gets deep and infect the blood, joints, and heart.
- RSV – The infected child can suffer from breathing problems, pneumonia, bronchiolitis, and death.
- Hepatitis A – It makes one person sick leading to gastrointestinal problems, fever, fatigue, and jaundice.
- Strep throat – This is from the bacteria group A Streptococcus.
- Giardiasis – This can be caused by a microscopic parasite causing nausea, diarrhea, and dehydration.
- E. coli – This can be spread through foods such as red meat and romaine lettuce but contact with an infected person or animal can also infect another person.
- Common cold – This is not as serious as the others but this can make one miserable as per Reader’s Digest.
Meanwhile, according to Doc Willie Ong, 60 percent of the people are not washing their hands after urinating and 40 percent are also not practicing hand washing after defecating. And because of poor hand hygiene, we can get diseases like diarrhea, fever, typhoid fever, cough, colds, sore eyes, Hepatitis A, and cholera.
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