Ways to Keep Your Family Healthy

1. Ways to Keep Your Family Healthy There is no sure way to completely prevent sickness, but you can help make your family more resistant to illness. These preventative measures will also help a person bounce back quicker if they do get sick. Just practicing these simple steps will have a profound effect on your families overall Fungaway health. Washing Hands Regularly - This is something that cannot be stressed enough. You should wash your hands frequently throughout the day and especially after touching things that are dirty, using the bathroom, playing with pets, etc. It is not enough just to wash hands though. They need to be washed thoroughly with soap. Lather up your hands and scrub for 20 seconds, taking care to get between fingers, under fingernails and the backs of the hands. Teach kids to wet their hands and then soap and scrub their hands while they sing Happy Birthday twice. This will ensure they are washing for 20 seconds. Hand sanitizer can be an effective germ killer as well. Make sure the hand sanitizer you buy is at least 60 percent alcohol for maximum effect. It is a good idea to give each of your children a small bottle of hand sanitizer to keep in their backpacks when they go to school. However, even though hand sanitizer is great in a pinch, it does not replace hand washing!