Kids should be encouraged to wash for at least 20 seconds with soap. They can time this by singing the “Happy Birthday” song twice or using a timer. Teach kids to wash all surfaces of their hands, ...

Wash your hands! It's a message parents start trying to hammer into their kids from a young age. These days, with the rapid spread of COVID-19, it's more pertinent than ever. The Centers for Disease ...

Hand-washing works One major point the COVID-19 pandemic helped drive home is how important it is to wash your hands. Washing ...

HALLSVILLE, Mo. (WAND) – A third grade teacher decided to find a way to teach her students about hand washing in a fun way. Mrs. Woods is a 3rd grade teacher with Hallsville School District in ...

People were washing their hands so much early in the pandemic that sensitive skin and soap shortages were common problems in 2020. All this focus on hand-washing was for good reason. The science ...

A reoccurring theme that has been present during the COVID-19 pandemic is hand-washing. However, we shouldn’t just be washing our hands – we should be practicing proper hand hygiene by scrubbing for ...

In her eight years of teaching, Shauna Woods has seen lots of illnesses spread through her classroom. So as concerns grew over the spread of coronavirus, the third grade teacher was struck with an ...

Hygiene practices have come a long way since the CDC first published national hygiene guidelines in the 1980s. With so much to keep track of, a nurse leader summarized some of the latest practice ...

Newly trained dentists know how to wash their hands, right? Apparently not, according to the results of a new study. Investigators observed hand hygiene practices of postgraduate-year dentists working ...

After visiting Ellis Island in 1906, President Theodore Roosevelt noted the lack of hand-washing by doctors and wrote the Public Health Service that he was “struck by the way doctors made the ...

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Wash your hands! It's a message parents start trying to hammer into their kids from a young age. These days, with the rapid spread of COVID-19, it's more pertinent than ever. The Centers for Disease ...