December 3,2017
the staff of the Ridgewood blog
Ridgewood NJ, its National Handwashing Awareness Week this year is on December 3-9 ,2017. Handwashing is a simple but important way to keep the families you work with healthy.
Why do children need to wash their hands?
Children are at an increased risk for coming into contact with contaminants like Lead.
Lead-based paint, found in older homes and even some toys, can contaminate dust and soil in and around the house and pose a threat to children, who tend to stick their hands in their mouths. One of the easiest and most effective ways to keep your kids safe from the harmful effects of lead is to make sure they wash their hands after playtime, especially after playing outside. For more information regarding lead poisoning please visit, https://www.cdc.gov/nceh/lead/tips/water.htm
What is the proper handwashing technique?
• Wet hands with clean, running water.
• Apply soap.
• Rub hands together and scrub palms, the back of hands, between fingers and under nails.
• Rinse hands well.
• Air dry hands or dry with a clean towel.
When should children wash their hands?
Children should always wash their hands but should wash their hands before and after eating as well as before and after touching someone who is sick. They should also always was their hands after:
• Using the restroom.
• Coughing, sneezing, or blowing their nose.
• Touching animals.
• Touching a surface or object that is touched or used by a lot of people.
How can parents and teachers get children to wash their hands?
A very effective way to get children into the handwashing habit is to make it a family activity. Children look up to the adults in their lives, so it’s important that you lead by example by not only reminding your children to wash their hands but by getting in line to wash right behind them!
For more information regarding handwashing please visit the following web pages:
https://kidshealth.org/en/parents/hand-washing.html
https://www.cdc.gov/…/show-me-the-science-hand-sanitizer.ht…
The Childhood Lead Poisoning Prevention Program is a program of the Partnership for Maternal and Child Health of Northern New Jersey which works to eliminate childhood lead poisoning and maintain healthy and safe homes. The program’s educational services are geared toward children ages six and younger and their parents.
We provide the following services at schools and community agencies:
• Free and exciting presentations to children 6 years and
younger using the Elmo Lead Away video.
• Free lead prevention and healthy homes
presentations/workshops to programs that serve children and families
People need to wash their hands many times a day.
The mayor and council in some of the management need to wash their hands because they’re real dirty.
Right
That’s false about having to wash your hands all the time. After the bathroom yes, sometimes before eating depending on ….. your own instinct. Really, I am old and throughout my life only washed my hands after the toilet and to impress people at their house , washed my hands before eating at their table. Almost never at home. I was never sick. I used to wish to get sick in order to get sick days at school or work, that kind of thing. It’s all in your upbringing as a child. If you had pets, played outside in clean dirt, no pesticides, you have a decent immune system. If not, wash your hands all the time. See if it works. . I never get flu shots. Of course I will die, but even if I get sick now and die, I am old enough. I mean everyone dies.
ATM , credit card pin pads and door knobs are disgusting,,if the person who used it before didn’t wane aft sneezing or using the bathroom, you get an unwanted gift from them.
We should all wear rubber gloves why do you think th police do
4:58 the idea behind frequent hand washing is not only to prevent you from becoming ill but to prevent you from spreading bacteria and illness to others. you may indeed never got sick but you’ve obviously come into contact with other people. You may have spread viruses and bacteria to which you may have developed an immunity to people who have not. It seems a small thing to do to help prevent the spread of disease.
Frequent handwashing in winter,beyond after going to bathroom, causes chapped hands and requires the use of stinky carcinogenic moisturizers. Just using vasoline is too greasy. I can’t help it if people pesticide their lawns so kids cant play and develop a decent immune system and dont play with pets. When I was a kid I had a dog, birds and a cat and played outside in clean dirt, undeveloped land. And trust me, the pesticide companies and fertilizer companies and land developers want you to believe that hand washing is the cure. NO way . Hey, did ya read the article in the NYT Review section yesterday” Soil Power ! The Dirty way to a Green Planet by Jacques Lesie. Ya gottta get rid of all artificial chemicals on farmlands and your land and not even till the soil. . Lead article on this study was done by Ridgewood’s JAMES HANSEN, ya really, read the article Hansen’s name in second column , third line.
They want you to think that constantly washing your hands will prevent illness. Not true . Of course after taking a pee or a shit or having mud stuck on your hands etc., but not constantly. I mean it is impossible if you think about it. Fight fight for what is right. Bring on the WOODS. Let SCHEDLER be UNDEVELOPED for HEALTH. That’s what does it. Undeveloped clean woods and pesticide and herbicde free lawns with only a small grassy area, if any, and a variety of shrubs and plants and trees. Do your kids a favor. That artificial turf in Maple is poison.
Especially the people in Villagewalk the place is full of mold behind the walls.
Just wait until cell phones are used for the subways. They are already used (by some) to get onto planes. They are guaranteed to harbor whatever oral germs the person has as well as on their hands. This brilliant technological feat could end up causing massive illness.
Germs do not live on surfaces for a long time. Google it. Way overblown germs on ATMS , cells , etc. ;You touch a dirty ATM or whatever, you put your hand instantly in your mouth; you might get sick. You might not; depending on your immune system. You wait a few minutes; the germ dies. Look it up!
Let’s concentrate on what really matters ; getting kids outdoors in clean dirt. Look that up!!
Get rid of malls; create woods again. People are shopping online anyway. That would be a good use of taxpayer money. The gov. by malls and tear them down and grow woods. Wow , back to basics. Nature is best for physical , emotional and spiritual health.
Stop it with the constant hand washing already. You will create anal kids. Real fearful wimps. And always sick, trust me.
Most of the bathrooms in the restaurants in town or filthy