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Washing your hands the NHS recommended way

JustVJustV Community Manager Posts: 5,612 Part of The Furniture
edited December 2022 in Health & Wellbeing
Could coronavirus be spreading on banknotes Heres

  1. Wet hands with water
  2. Apply enough soup to cover all hand surfaces
  3. Rub hands palm to palm
  4. Rub back of eachhand with palm of other hand with fingers interlaced
  5. Rub palm to palm with fingers interlaced
  6. Rub with back of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
  7. Rub each thumb clasped in opposite hand using a rotational movement
  8. Rub tips of fingers in opposite palm in a circular motion
  9. Rub each wrist with opposite hand
  10. Rinse hands with water
  11. Use elbow to turn off tap
  12. Dry thoroughly with a single-use towel
  13. Hand washing should take 15-30 seconds

Anyone else mastered this yet? ;)
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  • Former MemberFormer Member ☕🌻☕ Posts: 12,938 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    Sing happy birthday song twice to Washing your hands and that's the time recommended. Also if you stamp your hand and at the end of the day the stamp is still there, you aren't washing your hand enough
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 3,590 Community Veteran
    We got told to wash our hands to 'wagon wheel' 😂 only in Scotland 😂😂
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 199 Trailblazer
    I am adjusting to it. I used to only wash my hands fast and when I needed it because it made my eczema return. I don't know the birthday song lol, so I just count 20 seconds
  • Former MemberFormer Member ☕🌻☕ Posts: 12,938 Born on Earth, Raised by The Mix
    It's just happy birthday to you song? One you sing when giving a birthday cake to someone
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 199 Trailblazer
    I now the 'happy birthday to you' lyric but not the rest, we sing something different usually
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 287 The Mix Regular
    Here are some alternatives to 'happy birthday'

    Party in the USA, Miley Cyrus:
    So I put my hands up
    They're playing my song,
    And the butterflies fly away
    Noddin' my head like, yeah
    Movin' my hips like, yeah
    I got my hands up,
    They're playin' my song
    You know I'm gonna be okay
    Yeah, it's a party in the USA
    Yeah it's a party in the USA

    Oops I did it again, Britney Spears:
    Oops, I did it again
    I played with your heart, got lost in the game
    Oh baby, baby
    Oops, you think I'm in love
    That I'm sent from above
    I'm not that innocent

    Wannabe, Spice Girls:
    If you wanna be my lover, you gotta get with my friends
    (Gotta get with my friends)
    Make it last forever, friendship never ends
    If you wanna be my lover, you have got to give
    (You've got to give)
    Taking is too easy, but that's the way it is

  • Former MemberFormer Member Fruit loop Deactivated Posts: 2,762 Boards Guru
    edited March 2020


    I'm gonna have to try and not spam this haha
  • Former MemberFormer Member Fruit loop Deactivated Posts: 2,762 Boards Guru
    If anyone is interested in making some you just put the song in on here https://washyourlyrics.com/
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 199 Trailblazer
    edited September 18
    @Past User that's gold😂


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  • Former MemberFormer Member Moderator Posts: 660 Incredible Poster
    Thank you for sharing these everyone!
  • DancerDancer Community Champion Posts: 8,111 Legendary Poster

    "There's a part of me I can't get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once. I'll never be the same." ~ Demi Lovato
    "The way that I have found the light in my life is through the expressive arts because I know that I will be accepted for the way I am." ~ Me
    "I'm going to get strong again and see you soon. " ~ Anonymous 
  • DancerDancer Community Champion Posts: 8,111 Legendary Poster
    Made up my own version of a well known tik-tok for hand washing  (with soap or gel if you take away the last three lines.) And no I don't really have covid-19.

    Aye!
    Oh no I got covid-19
    Walking round through the school
    Spreading all the droplets
    Everyone like what you got
    I'm like covid-19
    You so ill
    I'mma call 111
    Go away and self isolate
    Wash your hands
    Scrub em!
    Wash em!
    Wash your hands you detty pig!
    "There's a part of me I can't get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once. I'll never be the same." ~ Demi Lovato
    "The way that I have found the light in my life is through the expressive arts because I know that I will be accepted for the way I am." ~ Me
    "I'm going to get strong again and see you soon. " ~ Anonymous 
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 1 Just got here
    nice poem:)
  • DurhamjaideDurhamjaide Posts: 1,225 Wise Owl
    I never used to washy my hands with soap really but now I have got into a habit of washing hands when I go to the toilet 
  • Ed_Ed_ Moderator Posts: 1,551 Extreme Poster
    edited May 2020
    As always, popular culture seems to predict the need for these things in advance. Alan Partridge has mastered how to wash your hands on public transport (Full clip is also funny): 

    https://youtu.be/77IZttD_pU8?t=111


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  • DancerDancer Community Champion Posts: 8,111 Legendary Poster

    "There's a part of me I can't get back. A little girl grew up too fast. All it took was once. I'll never be the same." ~ Demi Lovato
    "The way that I have found the light in my life is through the expressive arts because I know that I will be accepted for the way I am." ~ Me
    "I'm going to get strong again and see you soon. " ~ Anonymous 
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 32 Boards Initiate
    @Ed_, he totally has that whole thing down without using his hands to open doors or do anything :lol:
  • Kesh260807Kesh260807 Posts: 47 Boards Initiate
    Mike said:
    Could coronavirus be spreading on banknotes Heres

    1. Wet hands with water
    2. Apply enough soup to cover all hand surfaces
    3. Rub hands palm to palm
    4. Rub back of eachhand with palm of other hand with fingers interlaced
    5. Rub palm to palm with fingers interlaced
    6. Rub with back of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
    7. Rub each thumb clasped in opposite hand using a rotational movement
    8. Rub tips of fingers in opposite palm in a circular motion
    9. Rub each wrist with opposite hand
    10. Rinse hands with water
    11. Use elbow to turn off tap
    12. Dry thoroughly with a single-use towel
    13. Hand washing should take 15-30 seconds

    Anyone else mastered this yet? ;)
    hey mike any adivice if your allergic to some handwash?

    You are loved and you are amazing
  • Former MemberFormer Member Posts: 187 Helping Hand
    This is a very good way of handwashing (obviously considering it is even recommended by the NHS) but an event better method is 'the surgeon's handwashing'.
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