Lifestyles Ideas Management - Hand Hygiene

Lifestyles Ideas Management – Hand hygiene

Can you get sick by visiting a hospital patient?
It is not any more risky than visiting friends to school, going to the gym or just going about one’s daily business, said Dr Brian S Koll , chief of infection control at Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan.
In most cases, what you should do inside the hospital for protection against infection is the same as what you should do on the outside.
Hand hygiene means washing hands before and after the visit with soap and water or with an alcohol-based gel. Common sense should prevail, Dr Koll added.
Do not touch a dressing on the leg or arm. Do not touch any discharges or anything else that you would not normally touch.
We think of hospitals as dirty places, but we do not live in a clean world.
Buses are dirty; the subway is dirty. Hospital visitors need to be reminded that it is okay to hug you loved one. He said.
The patient also need protection; he warned “Don’t visit when you are sick, when you have a cold, a cough, an open skin lesion or a rash.