Personal Sanitizers
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Hand hygiene is listed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC)
as the first line of defense against the spread of H1N1 (Swine Flu) and other infectious diseases.
Poor hand hygiene can easily overwhelm any other Personal Protection Equipment (PPE) including gloves and N95 masks.
Without instant and constant access to a sink or hand sanitizer solution,
keeping your hands off the germ expressway is virtually impossible.
Whether you are an intensive care nurse, medic, mom, or ER doctor,
you deserve the most advanced PPE available to keep you well and on the job. Here is a review of available PPE:
Sprixx Personal Hand Sanitizer Dispensers
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Impeccable hand hygiene prevents the highest percentage method of contracting H1N1 - self-inoculation.
Adults touch their face an average of 18 times an hour.
People infected with H1N1 colonize surfaces by sneezing, coughing, but mostly by touching
- surfaces that surround us at work and throughout the communities in which live.
Unless you are constantly stationary, a personal dispenser is the only realistic method of sanitizing hands after contact with all these surfaces.
A personal dispenser should also be used when one has cold or flu symptoms to prevent hands from spreading colonies to surfaces and other people.
This advanced PPE tool should be used by anyone who is on-the-go at work or in the community during flu season.
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N95 Mask
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The N95 mask is considered standard PPE. It prevents inhalation of airborne pathogens such as H1N1.
It should be used when working in the close vicinity of people with flu symptoms.
It should also be worn when one has flu symptoms and is working in very close-quarters with others to prevent infecting them.
Droplets from sneezing can be airborne for minutes to then land on surrounding surfaces.
H1N1 can live for hours on those surfaces and be spread by hands to other surfaces and people.
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Surgical Gloves
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Surgical gloves are considered standard PPE. Gloves are most important when working with body fluids or caustic chemicals.
Remember that gloves are not a substitution for hand hygiene and hands should be washed or sanitized after removing gloves.
Gloves are just another surface to collect pathogens the same as a bare hand.
Self-inoculation, touching your eyes or nose with an infected hand, is as easy with gloves as without.
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In summary, a personal hand sanitizer dispenser is your best defense against contracting and spreading H1N1.
Learn more about Sprixx Personal Dispensers.
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