Wash your Hands - it just makes sense.

This video was made by Seema Marwaha and the CICC at Toronto General Hospital, University Health Network to encourage hand washing amongst care-providers.

@seema18m @CICCUHN

[PeacefulAura]

A little unsettling honestly, but delivers a clear cut message. Thank you!

[kenetathompson]

Washing hands is so important. This video is a great example of how unseen germs are passed. This shows how something that seems so little can cause such big issues.

[brittanyadrianadrian]

Washing your hands is very important for your safety and the safety of others around you. To stop the spread of bacteria using antibacterial soap with warm water is key to kill germs. This video is a very educational demonstration to see germs that we cannot see with the human eye on its own.

[SKayla]

Washing your hands properly is so important!

[whitneymcdade]

Washing your hands is so important, other people around is going to catch the germ that he had gotten from the first person. He just made it easier for everyone else to get sick. Please wash your hands and be safe.

[angelabillingslea]

Such a good video. I would like to pass it on as a reminder to our staff about the importance of handwashing!

[Marcfj]

What has always amazed me is those people who wash their hands very carefully in public restrooms and then open the restroom door with their bare hands on their way out. I always use a paper towel to do it after I've washed and dried my hands.

[topcat]

When I first started training to work in the OR there was a film like this to show how the surgical field could get contaminated. It was a real help.

[niquewashington]

1st of all the doctor never washed his hands but this video is a great reminder on how important it is to wash your hands

[Kate]

Спасибо создателям видео.Отличный наглядный пример передачи микробов, если необратывать руки.

[JB-szwy]

As someone who studied pathophysiology and epidemiology, our books never mentioned this although you learn from common sense that the most dangerous places to get sick are as follows

1 - Public schools and kids play school areas. Young kids sometimes often do not understand the importance of handwashing and may transmit a lot of diseases around these areas. If you live near or see a relative that is a kid attending them keep in mind they will probably be sick at some point in time and spread it to others in the household

2 - Public transportation - buses, trains and especially airlines often do not have openable windows (as the last cannot at the altitude due to temperature/oxygen levels. The buses and trains often have windows that are not or only partially openable windows and only get ventilated mildly when passengers go in and out and the door opens to allow for this. Sick people travelling on them may easily transmit these around and they may be a concentrated area for all sorts of germs. Passengers often have to buy airline tickets months before they ever knew they would get sick before travelling. Since they cannot change the schedule, they may have no option other than to go aboard the flight and some may be on medications yet still not completely well

3 - Public picnic tables. Spores and all sorts of organisms thrive near these. If you are out at one, avoid as much contact with a picnic table as possible when eating and wash hands after at a washroom if there is one or a bottle of soapwater you carry with you

4 - Hospitals and also doctors clinics areas and waiting rooms - these are where many sick people go to get checked and treated, spreading the bacteria, virus or germs to others in the area. Always wash hands after being in these places. I have worked in one so am perhaps more immune than some

5 - Biolabs, in institutions and other places or even in your own work area - have lots of germs due to the content of the things in them. Proper glove ware, removing gloves when exiting a lab to go to elevators, discarding used gloves, and handwashing after visiting or studying/working in these places should be done.

If you habitually are a frequent traveller or work in hospitals or such places, you may be already more immune. If not, you may be less so and may get sick more easily when you visit these places on occasion you may be more at risk. Especially if you do not frequent these places or study or work in one and are in contact with others who do. Also toughening up to germs emotionally works - avoiding places due to fear of getting sick may actually make one more, not less vulnerable

[velisciahodges]

Yasmine G. in Pstate CNA Class- That video made me itch. it really give a good view why you should wash your hands. I hope that doesn't really happen at the Dr office.

[kanaga]

Such a great video, every healthcare workers must go through that

[ritatownsel]

Great video, really expresses the importance of hand washing!

[nicolejohnson]

This video perfectly shows the importance of hand washing! Thanks for posting it!

[Ashley]

Wow. That's a good visual. Just showed my kids.

[mohamadalsouki]

It is very beneficial that it will not be forgotten.

[mundomoney]

Well, it seems this video is very useful to many people

[ГазизаХоджахметова]

👍. Наглядный пример о важности обработки рук.

[arturoespinoza-magana]

Shows the importance how valuable it is it keep good hand hygiene