Everyone has an actual hand sanitizer in their purse, on their desk, in the car. Kids have hand sanitizers in their book bags, teachers keep bottles on their desks and give wipes to their students. But how are effective are these hand sanitizers, especially the baby wipes? Are hand sanitizing wipes effective?
Though the sanitizer makers claim that many wipes kill 99.9% of harmful germs and bacteria, it is going to be found that this is not always the dilemma. Often these are tested on inanimate objects, not hands, and in reality, do not kill that most of an amount of harmful germs. Almost all of what the sanitizing wipes take away is not even really what makes people sick. The best practice of all for staying healthy is washing hands in soap and water.
If no soap and water is available, than hand sanitizing wipes are better just did nothing cleaning hands at all, but they should not take the place of hand wash. The amount that hand sanitizers are used should also remain at a minimum, for instance, soap and water should be used if it is available; if salvaging not, then buy the wipes for use. Some argue that the increased utilization of hand sanitizing wipes and gels is increasing illnesses as they kill the good bacteria needed to address germs and illness causing bacteria. Can be that resistances are lowered and illness is increased because of the over use of hand sanitizers.
Many children are now accustomed to washing their hands with hand sanitizing products instead of soap and water. This is causing them to not wash their hands effectively when they do use soap and water as they don’t practice it enough. Again, this can lead to increased illness.
However, there can be a place and time use hand sanitizing wipes. Sometimes, it is simply not possible or practical to wash hands with soapy water. Perhaps a family is placed in a car and someone sneezes, use the wipes. Maybe a salesman has just shaken hands with lots of people and cannot find soap and water, use a wipe. Sometimes people don’t have the mobility or facilities to constantly wash hands, this is a time when wipes can be appropriate.
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