6 Reasons That Make Hand Sanitizers Ineffective in Preventing Corona Covid-19

Liputan6.com, Jakarta – One way to prevent the Covid-19 corona pandemic is to keep hands clean. One of them is by using hand sanitizer or liquid hand sanitizer correctly. Even so, sometimes we don’t use hand sanitizers properly.

If there is an error when using hand sanitizer it will make it ineffective at preventing viruses, including COVID-19. Reporting from Antaranews and the Livestrong page, December 13, 2020, there are at least six reasons that make the use of hand sanitizers ineffective.

1. Too little and too fast

Savita Ginde, head of health care at Stride Community Health Center, Denver, Colorado, recommends adults use hand sanitizers according to hand size.

Also, if you think of using hand sanitizer to be a faster option than washing your hands with soap and water, then you are wrong. The Mayo Clinic recommends that you apply hand sanitizer for about 20 seconds, which is the same amount of time you wash your hands with soap and water.

2. Does not cover the whole hand

Washing your hands with soap and water should cover your fingers, palms and the backs of your hands and you need to apply the same when using hand sanitizer. “If you only rub your palms together, you are not completing your task,” explains Ginde.

3. Wipe excess fluid onto the pants

Advantages of wearing hand sanitizer so uncomfortable that you may be tempted to dry your hands on your pants. According to Ginde, this method can reduce the effectiveness of hand sanitizer.

Then, if there were germs on your pants, you just contaminated your hands. “In an ideal scenario, just dry your hands (naturally) instead of wiping them,” said epidemiologist at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, Lebanon, Jose Raymond M. Mercado.

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