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HYGIENE – A STORY OF SIMILITUDE

  If there’s anything that binds humans around the world closer together, it is the instinct of survival. Along the way, we have made several changes in our approach towards hygiene, but in keeping with the universal laws, no goal is met efficiently without honouring the basics. In a pandemic that affected the world, it is the basics that were most preached, most circulated, and most recommended by doctors and well wishers alike. “Wash your hands”, probably makes for the most spoken phrase in 2020. And for good reason,  where hygiene prevails,  so does trust and health. Here is a list of quirky cleanliness trends around the world. JAPAN While Japan is infamous for its disciplinary approaches, their culture propagates true belief in the connection between the outside cleanliness having an effect on the inside cleanliness/purity of mind and spirit. Upon entering a traditional home in Japan, you are expected to change into fresher clothes and gargle your mouth to maintain a...
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Hand Hygiene in 2021

Introduction The advent of coronavirus shook us all in the year 2020. As we move onto 2021, we hope to get out of this situation and return to normalcy as we did before. The year 2020 taught us that whether it is a global pandemic or an outbreak, hand hygiene is our first and best line of defence.   The deadly impact of coronavirus hasn’t slowed down yet. To track the global coronavirus outbreak, an estimated  99,782,678  people are infected worldwide, and as scary as it sounds,  2,139,214  of  them are dead.   https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/   In this blog, we are going to cover some methods and practices we can follow, to stay protected not only in 2021 but throughout our lives.   So here is our guide to hand hygiene in 2021 The Approach Towards Hand Hygiene Hand Hygiene practices have been around for centuries. Right from our childhood days, the importance of hand hygiene has imbibed upon us. But over the years, most of us ignor...

Hygiene Check: When To Wash Your Hands

Hygiene Check: When To Wash Your Hands Washing hands has been a traditionally serious hygiene   routine in Indian families for ages. Right from the grannies to mommies and elder sisters, kids have been the primary recipients of this directive – Go,  Wash Your Hands  … And while writing this post, I can recollect umpteen advertorials and videos urging kids to maintain correct hygiene by keeping their hands clean. But are kids the only ones who tend to dirty their hands? Let’s see… Simple Steps To Wash Your Hands Before we debate over the extent to which adults take this hygiene step seriously, let me illustrate how simple and easy it is to keep hands clean… when indoors or when outdoors, with water or without. Keep a hand hygiene solution with you always It can be a miniature  hand sanitizer , or A pocket-friendly solution like paper soap When you have access to water Simply wet your hands Take a paper soap leaf from your pocket Foam up a good lather by rubbing y...