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Good Hand Hygiene Helps Prevent School Absences
Experts from Baltimore-based LifeBridge Health, which operates Sinai and Northwest Hospitals, say that the number one thing students and teachers can do to avoid getting sick is to adopt good hand hygiene.
I often joke that the ways to not get sick are to wash your hands and dont eat at questionable restaurants, but theres a lot of truth to that advice, says John Cmar, M.D., an internist at Sinai Hospital.
Hand washing helps prevent illness because most germs are spread when people pick them up from infected surfaces and then touch their eyes, noses or mouths. However when hands are germ-free, bugs dont usually have a way to reach the face.
According to Northwest Hospital Infection Control Manager Mary Wallace, bacteria and viruses live on many surfaces found in a school environment such as desks and tables, computer keyboards, clothing, locker room benches, coins, and doorknobs, to name a few.
Because hands can pick up germs from so many different types of surfaces, it is critical that students wash their hands after using the restroom, before and after eating, whenever they are soiled, and periodically throughout the day, says Wallace.
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