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National Handwashing Awareness Week is December 6-12, 2009
National Handwashing Awareness Week is the first full week in December. This year you can help spread the word, not the germs! The four principles of handwashing awareness are:
1. Wash your hands when they are dirty and before you eat.
2. Do not cough into your hands.
3. Do not sneeze into your hands.
4. Above all, never touch your eyes, nose or mouth with dirty hands.
Proper hand washing requires vigorous lathering for at least 20 seconda -- as long as it takes to sing the ABC song. Do not forget to tell your family, friends, fellow students and co-workers to lend a hand to Keep US all Healthy One Handwash at a Time!
T Zone
WHAT IS YOUR T ZONE?
It is the mucous membranes of your eyes, nose and mouth.
This is how the majority of disease enters OUR bodies. For respiratory and gastro-intestinal diseases it is the portal of entry 100 percent of the time!! This why the Fourth Principle of Hand Awareness is SOOO IMPORTANT!!
If You NEVER touch those mucous membranes with a dirty (contaminated) finger, you will NOT be sick again from a respiratory or gastro-intestinal illness!! IMAGINE IT!! If you have pictures of people breaching the "T Zone," send them to us so we can share them. If we ALL practiced this Fourht Principle, there would NOT be a Pandemic! Imagine that!
Keep your eye on the adults to help re-train them, so they can teach the children the correct behavior.
"THANKS Henry!!"
Source: www.henrythehand.com/
Get more info on handwashing at: www.glogerm.com/