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Should I use hand sanitizers?
Well, the good news and the bad news. I like hand sanitizers too, but really, good hand washing works just as well, ridding your hands and other parts of your bodies of bacteria and viruses as antibacterial stuff. So they're not necessary at all. But the truth is sometimes you don't want to wash your hands, you don't have time, the sanitizer is right there, it's really just alcohol. It helps to kill the germs and helps to prevent the spread because we're lazy. So do you need to use them? Absolutely not, if you use good hand washing, and I hope in your child's childcare school especially they do that, it's not necessary. Any soap and water will do. But, if like many of us you cut corners, you forget, you want a little bit of an easier way, then sanitizers seem to be one way to get people to, quote unquote, wash their hands without having to go to the sink and help prevent the transmission of infection.
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