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Travel Advice -
Keeping hands clean during travel
The medical profession tells us that bacteria are often spread by contact
with others or by contact with surfaces that have been touched by others. ThereArePlaces recommends
that you keep your hands as clean as possible during travel to help avoid
bacterial infections .
We don't know about you, but we have observed fellow travelers using
restrooms and not washing before they depart. Unfortunately, this is the
norm and these folks' hands may spread many germs by the end of the day. These are not the hands we
would like to shake!
The following suggestions may help
protect you from hand transferred, bacterial infections when you travel
1.
Carry a small bottle of anti-bacterial hand sanitizer (e.g. PurellŪ or
DialŪ) and use it to clean your hands before eating and after shaking hands or
using a restroom, especially if you have touched the toilet seat or the
door to the toilet. Hand sanitizer products come in personal sized
bottles that will fit in a pocket, purse, or fannypack.
2.
If you do not have hand sanitizer available, wash your hands using soap
and hot water whenever possible. (Although we suspect you are an
expert at washing hands, we provide a short article on the
technique preferred by the
Center for Disease Control, just in case.
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