Data show more than 5,000 children under five die of diarrhea every day around the world as a result of lack of access to clean water and sanitation facilities and hygiene education. Suffering and the costs to be borne illness can be reduced by making simple changes in behavior such as hand washing with soap .. According to Unicef, the lack of access to clean water resulted in a decrease in the rate of school attendance of girls as they enter puberty, due to the lack of facilities adequate sanitation. Access to clean water and sanitation is considered an important basis for the lives of children around the world in terms of health, survival, and a sense of respect for themselves. Provision of clean water and good sanitation behaviors in school too be one way to achieve the Millennium Goal.
Preventing Disease
Hands are often the agent who brings the germs and causing pathogens move from one person to another, either by direct contact or indirect contact (using other surfaces such as towels, glasses). Hand in direct contact with human and animal feces, or other bodily fluids (such as snot, and food / drink contaminated when not washed with soap to remove bacteria, viruses, and parasites on others who do not realize that they are being transmitted). Far more common people wash their hands with water alone, but this proved ineffective in maintaining health as compared to hand washing with soap. Indeed, using soap in hand washing actually cause people to allocate more time when washing hands, but the use of soap to be effective because the fat and dirt will be released when rubbed and rub hands in an attempt to take it off.
In the fat and dirt is living germs. Another effect is a fragrant hands after washing with soap, and in some cases hand wangilah which makes washing hands with soap be interesting to do. Washing hands with soap is one of the most effective ways to prevent diarrheal diseases and ARI. Both diseases was the leading cause of death for children. Each year, as many as 3.5 million children worldwide die before reaching the age of five years due to diarrheal diseases and ARI. Washing hands with soap can also prevent skin infections, eyes, worms that live in the gut, SARS, and avian flu. A review of about 30 studies that discuss the related finding that washing hands with soap can cut by half the number of patients with diarrhea (50 percent). Diarrheal disease is often associated with the water situation, but it can also be caused by the handling of human waste such as feces and urine that is not right. These germs make people sick when they enter the mouth through the hand that has touched the stool, drinking contaminated water, raw foods, and eating utensils are not washed prior to feeding site or contaminated dirty.
The effectiveness of hand washing with soap in a decrease in the percent of patients with diarrhea prevention according to the type of innovation is:
- Wash hands with soap (44%),
- The use of treated water (39%),
- Sanitation (32%),
- Health education (28%),
- Water supply (25%),
- Water to be treated (11%).
Washing hands with soap reduced the number of respiratory tract infections in two steps: first, releasing respiratory pathogens contained in the hand and palm surface and, second, eliminating pathogens (germs) other (especially entrentic virus) is the cause not only diarrhea but also symptoms of other respiratory diseases.
Evidence has been found that practices such as maintaining health and hygiene - washing hands before and after eating / defecating / small - can reduce the rate of infection by 25%. Research also has shown that in addition to diarrhea and respiratory tract infections use of soap in hand washing reduces the incidence of skin diseases, eye infections such as trachoma, and intestinal worms especially for ascariasis and trichuriasis.
Less Awareness
Although many people know that washing hands is important, only a few are doing it. Another study on health policy conducted by the World Bank showed that healthy behaviors such as hand washing with soap is less promoted as disease prevention behaviors, compared abatan flu-drug promotion by the medical staff. This is compounded when the locations are difficult to reach remote populations and print and electronic media (such as radio and TV).
When required to wash their hands?
1. Before eating.
2. After the rest room.
3. Coming home from traveling.
4. After holding the dirty goods, money, and animals.
5. After changing diapers or cleaning a child.
6. Before preparing food or milk for the baby / child.
Transmission through the Hand
• fecal-oral infections: gastroenteritis (viruses, bacteria, parasites), cholera, dysentery, typhoid, intestinal worms, hepatitis A, leptospirosis, candidiasis, polio.
• Not directly by hand: SARS, bird flu.
• Directly through fingernail: boils, pimples, contaminated food (stale).
Reluctant to wash their hands, a number of infectious diseases through a sterile hand can not be prevented. There is a series of diseases that can be spread by the hands of someone not clean. Familiarize little thing it has to be started from home. Wash hands with soap before eating or after a bowel movement to make the home environment and food for the family to be healthy. In addition, various agencies are racing to provide clean water for the community.
Handwashing with soap is the mission to protect the public from a variety of diseases. The mission washing should be done simultaneously with all important elements in society.
*from various sources
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