Washing your hands is a really important habit of personal hygiene and that both adults and children should perform well and the necessary times, but, Do you know why it is so important that your children wash their hands?
Hands are the means by which many bacteria and viruses reach our body. We must not become obsessed with germs, because they surround us everywhere and can even be considered beneficial because they activate our defense mechanisms.
But of course there is no exposure to them without taking care of those personal hygiene habits that have done so much to improve our health and even our survival or to avoid avoiding the main sources of disease transmission. Y handwashing It is the most important of all. Nothing happens if the child does not bathe daily, but it is necessary to wash his hands.
Many diseases come through the hands, because we touch objects that other people have touched or in which they have sneezed. One thing is the germs that are everywhere, and another to touch something that a person who may have a serious illness or who has not washed their hands after defecating, has touched.
As I said before, in addition, some diseases are transmitted because germs remain in the saliva and these, by staying on a surface and touching the children, end up passing to their mouth or nose if they touch it before washing their hands.
There are situations, therefore, in which it will be necessary to wash your hands: after making the needs, before and after eating, after touching the ground or having come into contact with the saliva from the mouth of an animal and doing it especially if we are in public spaces, such as a nursery, a means of collective transport or an elevator When using a public restroom, care must be taken when knocking on doors or toilets, and washing your hands after using them.
Don't be of those parents who they send the child to wash their hands and they don't do it before eating or after using the toilet. You are the educators of your children and you should always set an example, teaching them how they should do it. It is also important to take care of the hygiene of the soap dispenser if we use it.
Ideally, the children begin to wash their hands with help as soon as they are able to do it and always, always, educate them by example, and teach them the right way to do it.
