Handsfree Dispenser

Sensor-operated towel dispenser prevents cross-contamination

The Holiday season is upon us.    We can look forward to all kinds of goodies. The holidays also bring the flu and colds. Families and friends gather to celebrate.  Unfortunately so do their germs.  Not to sound like the Scrooge, simple steps can be taken to avoid getting sick. They are:

Wash your hands, lathering well before preparing food or baking.

Dry your hands with a touchless towel dispenser and turn off the faucet with the towel.

Keep foods that can spoil refrigerated until they are eaten.

At work, disinfect the phones and keyboards.

Sanitize  doorknobs with disinfectant wipes.

Sneeze into the elbow area to avoid germy hands.

After much handshaking, either use a hand sanitizer or wash your hands.

Keep your sanitizer handy in public restrooms that do not provide hands free dispensers,automatic faucets and flushers, and hands free door openers.

Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Germs are on the way.

Wash your hands repeatedly,

So you will stay ok.

Oh, Jingle Bells, Jingle Bells,

Wash them right away

Unwelcome guests those nasty germs

Are here ’til NewYear’s Day

Washing hands is a great defense against the bacteria and viruses that are present on everything that we touch. Sickness in the workplace can cost thousands of missed workdays. Colds and flues keep students from attending classes. Besides keeping our immune systems healthy in order to counteract infections, we can do something very simple to avoid getting sick. That is taking the time to wash one’s hands. Parents and teachers can stress handwashing to young people so that they will make washing their hands a permanent habit. A brief guide to handwashing follows.Wash your hands:Before eating. In a restaurant do it after handling the menu.After using the bathroom at home but especially in a public restroom.After changing diapers. Busy mothers cannot afford to be sick.When caring for the sick or after visiting the doctor.After touching PUBLIC doorknobs, handles, phones, gas pumps, bank machines, and more.When handling meat and foods. Food handlers should be very aware of what they touch.After gardening or working outdoors. Animal and bird contamination and spores are in the ground.Handling hotel TV remotes. They have been proven to be very contaminated.Doing a lot of handshaking at receptions, political rallies, and family gatherings can exchange germs.Handling sums of money and credit cards like bankers, fast-food workers, and merchants do.

Childcare centers can be a breeding ground for germs, so workers and children should wash their hands often after playing, before eating, and before going home.

Simple soaps, along with proper handwashing, are adequate to avoid cross- contamination. Spend a minute lathering the soap because the lather action removes bacteria on one’s hands.

Antibacterial soaps work by destroying germs.

In your home and at the workplace use a disinfectant wipe on phones and doorknobs.
And last but not least start using handsfree soap and towel dispensers. These touchless devices protect you, your workers, your clients, and your family. Using hands free soap and towel dispensers and automatic faucets are the way to ensure better hygiene.

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Hands off the toilet flusher

Hands off the soap dispenser

Hands off the faucet

Hands off the towel dispenser

Hands off the exit door

If these devices were automated, one could keep one’s hands off and avoid disease causing microbes. www.autohandsfreesoap offers them all.

There are a number of basic reasons for using electronic plumbing products in public facilities. These include improved restroom hygiene.

The most important reason for using sensor-operated faucets and flushometer valves is to improve restroom hygiene. By the very nature of what a restroom is designed to do, the fixtures and fittings in a public restroom must come in contact with the bodily functions of a wide variety of human beings. Cleanliness is important not just for the aesthetic value of the facility, but also from the health and safety standpoint. The use of sensor operated plumbing products will keep the restroom cleaner. “Hands Free” products also help prevent the transmission of disease from one person to another.

When a person touches the handle on a faucet or a flush valve, residue on that person’s hand or fingers may be physically transmitted to the handle of the product. This residue can than be transferred to the next person touching the handle. Studies have identified that bacteria can be spread from one user to another from a faucet handle or knob. This is called “cross contamination”. The use of “Hands Free” faucets and flush valves eliminates the need for physical contact between the user and the plumbing device. This in turn helps to eliminate the possible transmission of a wide variety of pathogens, including hepatitis, salmonella and a wide host of other communicable diseases. Since restroom users are aware that multiple people have been using the facilities, a restroom that incorporates hand’s free plumbing devices is also perceived a lot less risky to use. This projects an overall perception to the user that the restroom is “hygienic”.

C-diff aka., Clostridium difficile,  lives harmlessly in most peoples’ intestines.  According to Patricia Raymond M.D. at Eastern Virginia Medical School, it is held in check by other bacteria. “When strong antibiotics wipe out what we call these “friendly flora,” C.difficile can proliferate.”

Frequent handwashing is your first defense against this diarrhea transmitter.  Don’t insist that your doctor prescribe an antibiotic when he says that it probably won’t help. If it turns out that you need an antibiotic, take a probiotic like yogurt or ask your doctor about the brand name, Florastor.  Hospital patients need to use hand sanitizer and insist that those who are caregivers use sanitizer also because C. diff is commonly transmitted in hospital environments.

Persistant diarrhea that lasts longer than 24 hours accompanied by weakness, a racing heart, or blood in the stool are symptoms of the C.diff.  Call your doctor if you develope these symptoms.

According to Charles Gerba, a microbiologist, “Desks are really bacteria cafeterias”. It’s hard to believe that work stations can harbor 400 times the number of microbes than restrooms.  “The superhighways for bacteria  are hands and the surfaces we touch”, says Professor Sally Bloomfield, another microbiologist. There are washable, waterproof keyboards available.  They can be disinfected  and protect the user.

Our hands touch so many things throughout the day. They help us carry items to and fro, they push buttons and hold us steady when we have to cling to handrails and stair rails. As a result, they become full of germs and viruses that come from people who are infected.

When we forget to wash up before eating, we can get very sick. That is why there are many gadgets today that can help minimize touching infected items. One of these are hands free door openers that eliminate the need to touch door handles that other people have already laid their hands on.

      The prevention of the superbug MRSA (methicillin resistant staph aureus), can be accomplished by proper handwashing and avoiding cross-contamination. The use of sensor-operated toilet flushers, automatic soap dispensers, touch free towel dispensers, automatic faucets, and hands free door openers prevents illness.      

     Now there is research that indicates that “manuka” honey shows promise for treating wounds infected with MRSA.  The International Journal of Lower Extremity Wounds in a review of 22 clinical trials verified that honey quickly heals wounds, protects against further infection, reduces swelling, minimizes scarring, helps remove infected and dead tissue, and stimulates new tissue growth. The best course is still prevention.