Did You Know?

Clean Hands Help Protect Your Family

When should you wash your hands?

• Before preparing or eating food
• After going to the bathroom
• After changing diapers or cleaning up a child who has gone to the bathroom
• Before and after caring for someone who is sick
• After handling uncooked foods, particularly raw meat, poultry or fish
• After blowing your nose, coughing or sneezing
• After handling an animal or animal waste
• After handling garbage
• Before and after treating a cut or wound
• After handling items contaminated by flood water or sewage
• When your hands are visibly dirty

Using alcohol-based sanitizers:

• Rub product over all surfaces of hands and fingers until hands are dry.

–Source:  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention