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It's good hygiene to cover your mouth when you cough, keep hand sanitizer on hand, don't leave used tissues around, and wipe down the desk, computer keyboard and phone from time to time to help prevent germs from spreading.

It can be caused by anything from stress and fatigue, to pressure on the breast from a bra that's too tight, missed feedings, or poor hand or breast pump hygiene, according to The Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine.

The best way to protect yourself from flu is to get vaccinated, practice good hand washing hygiene, and stay home / keep children home when sick.

It's a good idea to start teaching your baby the importance of hygiene from an early age and always clean your baby's hands and face before and after mealtimes — especially on outings, playing with pets or outside.

Good hand hygiene and seeking out information from our GPs on conditions that affect us and how to prevent their spread is a start.

«The importance of practicing proper hygiene including frequent hand washing and covering coughs and sneezes, as well as staying home from school and work if you're sick with flu - like symptoms and remaining home for 24 hours after a fever subsides, can not be stressed strongly enough during this flu season,» Gilmore said.

Touch surfaces made from solid antimicrobial copper are already used by hospitals, schools, mass transit hubs, sports facilities and offices around the world to reduce the spread of infections, supporting key infection control measures such as good hand hygiene and regular surface cleaning and disinfection.

«This work adds to the body of evidence pertaining to intraoperative bacterial transmission because it identifies targets for improved frequency and quality of environmental cleaning as well as important periods for hand hygiene compliance, namely induction and emergence from general anesthesia,» state the authors.

Although hand washing has long been regarded as the most effective preventative measure, estimates of hand hygiene compliance in the healthcare industry range from 40 to 70 percent.

«Because the offending organisms seem to emanate from the skin, greater attention should be directed to eyelid and hand hygiene.»

But it's more important to maintain smart hygiene habits (keeping your distance from sick folks, washing your hands regularly, disinfecting surfaces that get touched by lots of people) in order to avoid germs as much as possible and remove those you do come into contact with.

For one, if you plan to travel to countries with poor sanitation, you'll want to make sure you practice good hygiene, including washing your hands after bathroom trips, drinking purified water, and avoiding uncooked foods — specifically meat from pigs, boar, and deer.

If you have either viral or bacterial conjunctivitis, practice good hand hygiene to keep it from spreading to other people in your household.

Basically you should practice good hand hygiene and try to avoid contact with people coming from areas where there are known cases.

Good hand hygiene is frequently called the «do - it - yourself vaccine» because this simple act can help protect you and your family from infection and disease.

My husband and I picked up a parasite called Dientamoeba fragilis from eating sushi at a restaurant years ago (obviously the food preparer was not following proper hand washing hygiene!).

Good hygiene habits such as brushing your teeth, washing your hands properly before eating, and keeping your hands away from your eyes and nose during cold season can help keep harmful organisms out of your body so that your immune system doesn't become overwhelmed.

I vividly remember, during my own youth, my mother and father talking at the kitchen table and discarding wannabe babysitters for such reasons as lack of intelligence, possible drinking problem, ugliness and poor hygiene, but all that effort still didn't stop one hired hand from encouraging me to jump as far as I could off the back of the couch.

Effectively conveying the importance of hand hygiene compliancy from an early age and getting children into the habit of washing their hands as part of a daily routine at school and at home will help to ensure that this practise becomes part of their lifelong routine.

The colder season brings with it different challenges for schools and nurseries but hand hygiene should always remain a top priority in order to shield children from winter bugs, such as colds, flu and even norovirus.

Discard and replace gloves when moving from a dirty area to a cleaner one, remembering to perform hand hygiene after removing and discarding gloves (hand washing or hand sanitizer).

However, proper hygiene, like washing hands before meals, cleaning dirt from vegetables, and reducing exposure to cat feces prevents infection.

At the beginning of February, the Medical Assistant class from Ross Medical Education Center in Bowling Green took a field trip to Bristow Elementary to teach proper hand hygiene to the children there.

Each week we feature content by hand hygiene experts ranging from infection prevention for healthcare and food safety with additional topics such as occupational dermatitis and hand washing technique.