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Are hand sanitizers better than hand washing against the common cold?

March 25th, 2010 by leeyl · 2 Comments · Biology

Everyday, every time! Especially after go back to the bathroom or restroom, we should wash our hands. Because if we didn’t wash our hands, we can get rhinovirus. This virus can bring cold to us. In adult case, like 35% of people can get a cold because of this virus.

But today was good news for this kind of situation. In our sanitizer can erase more than hand washing. So if we use sanitizer, we can make rhinovirus go away. That is really helpful our health. And they said for 4 hours sanitizer can protect our hands to rhinovirus. They said that is more than when we use hand washing stuff. If we use sanitizer, we can erase 80% of our hands. But If we use hand washing stuff we can erase just 31% of our hands. Like here we can see many different between those two. I will try use sanitizer more than hand washing stuff.

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  • dyrssewc

    Studies show that hand sanitizers containing ethanol are more effective than regular water and soap. Sanitizers clean out more off the germs and do it better than the normal stuff. This also protects us from rhinovirus. Rhinovirus is 30% of the reason why most Americans get the common cold.

    Researchers say that organic acid analyzed its abilityto provide constant antirival activity. Tests showed that hand sanitizer using both ethanol and organic acid decrease the virus on your hands and stop infection for up to 4 hours.

  • thomascd

    There are many different theories for hand sanatiser. Many people say that handsanitizer only spreads the germs on your hands around rather then killing them, and another theory is that it is more effective then hand soap and water.Studies show that hand sanitizer is more effective with certain types of chemicals in it. Studys also show that unlike hand soap, hand sanitizer also prevents germs from leaching on to you, and hand soap only washes you clean of them.

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