Proper hygiene is necessary to prevent disease and sickness. It is quite a shame that few people actually take the time to practice proper hygiene. Unfortunately even the professionals that are paid to help prevent these diseases can't walk the talk. Less than 50% of hospital staffers wash their hands to kill the germs they may have come in contact with. These are the people you count on to help you recover and feel better. They could potentially be spreading germs to you from the very institution you look to for protection.

Everyone says you should wash your hands after you go to the bathroom, before you eat, and after you come in from outside, but how many people really do? Most people have been guilty of not washing their hands at some point in time. It may be that we don't have time to do it. Or maybe we feel our hands are already clean, and that other tasks could be spreading more germs. Some may try the old trick of claiming to "save water" by not washing their hands. That last one is harder to justify after the invention of instant hand sanitizer liquid. What people may not realize though, is that the quality of their health is their choice, but their own poor hygiene affects other people's health.

People need to take responsibility for their habits because they affect other people. By not washing hands, a person leaves germs for other people to pick up unknowingly. No matter how many times people wash their hands, they are always vulnerable to germs because there's always a snotball nose-picker sitting in the back of class, that refuses to ever wash his hands because he says he doesn't need to: he doesn't go to the bathroom until he gets home from school so his hands are never dirty. It is unfair for people to become sick because of others' carelessness. The only way hygiene can be improved, whether it be in the hospital, classroom, workplace or anywhere else, is if we ask each other to cooperate and remind each other to clean up after ourselves, just like Morales in this MSNBC article about hygiene.

Posted in Posted by Umang Patel at 12:25 PM