Hand Hygiene

Updated: April 27, 2023 No disposable protective glove offers the exact same level of protection. In this dangerous public health age when superb hand hygiene and protection is essential, healthcare, industrial and food service workers can’t trust their hands and patients’ and customers’ health to just any disposable glove. All workers, no matter their industry […]

In 1847, a Hungarian obstetrician by the name of Ignaz P. Semmelweiss showed that hand washing greatly reduced infections in newborns. Dr. Semmelweiss attempted to promote hand washing and cleanliness among his colleagues, who were so offended that they committed him to an insane asylum. That was 150 years ago and times have changed. Semmelweiss’s […]

As we’ve learned from recent worldwide health epidemics, diseases can spread across the globe as fast as transcontinental 747 flight from Beijing to Boston. One easy daily exercise can go a long way to stopping the spread of dangerous viruses. We all have the power in our own hands to help prevent diseases. We all […]

After surviving a pandemic, countless flu seasons and an endless daily assault from them, we are all experts at weathering the worst sickly intentions of harmful germs. Heck, we’re at the point where there should be a medal for staying on your feet in a germ-filled world that is getting seemingly germier by the day. […]

Is there anything such as full-proof coronavirus immunity in a Post-COVID-19 America? Unfortunately, the straight answer is no. While COVID-19 has quieted across the U.S. and most of Europe after a vicious winter surge, it’s not an “All Clear” sign and a signal that we can lower our collective resolve to practice social distance rules […]

America’s hand sanitizer supply chain is off the ropes and again running like a fine-tuned machine. The U.S. Food & Drug Administration has essentially issued a cease and desist directive to manufacturers of ethanol hand sanitizers prepared under COVID-19 Public Health Emergency policies to manufacture a finished alcohol-based hand sanitizer. The federal mandate is clear: […]

Resolution (New Year’s Definition): A course of action that you have decided on and are determined to complete.  Friends, welcome to 2022: a promising time of new beginnings, a fresh start, and, of course, new resolutions. As we weather yet another COVID-19 resurgence thanks to the troublesome Omicron variant, we can all agree there is […]

They are our trusted first and second lines of hygiene defense. They are germs’ exterminators. They are remarkably efficient cleansers and keeping countless millions of Americans on their feet and healthy during the COVID-19 Pandemic. We all know of what soap and hand sanitizer do, but what exactly are these super germ fighter we turn […]

Have Hand Sanitizer, Will Travel. It’s a smart slogan many Americans are traveling by as the cautiously venture out across town, across state and across the country during the COVID-19 Pandemic. When washing your hands with soap and water is not readily available, the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends hand sanitizer as […]

Some hygienic truths are self-evident. Even in the early days of our conscious medical hygienic fight against germs and bacteria, long before the word novel coronavirus appeared in a medical journal or was used at least once by almost every American at least once a day, alcohol’s remarkable ability to serve as a germ-killing agent […]

Updated: May 11, 2021 As we all strive to keep ourselves, families, coworkers, neighbors and communities safe during the COVID-19 pandemic era, hand sanitizer is standard, necessary equipment to help us thwart off infectious bacteria, germs and pathogens. You simply can’t safely leave your home without it. When soap and water are not available, there’s […]

Updated: Friday, April 9, 2021 During these trying, uncertain days, there are two essential hand hygiene measures none of us can live without: Hand Sanitizer and Soap and Water. As we strive to keep ourselves, families, friends and neighbors healthy in the time of the coronavirus, many people are asking hand hygiene’s age-old question. Is […]

They had discovered a COVID-19-neutralizing revelation. As Brigham Young University researchers excitedly reviewed the results of their study, they found a new hope for a weary America and a new truth: the long-held rules have changed in the disinfecting fight against COVID-19.  Extensive research from BYU shows alcohol-free hand sanitizer to be just as effective […]

The coronavirus doesn’t care who you are, John Doe in Iowa, Jane Doe in Ireland, Tom Hanks in Hollywood, or the President of the United States of America. COVID-19 grants infection immunity to no one. “Tonight, (the First Lady) and I tested positive for COVID-19,” President Donald Trump tweeted. As we learned Friday, October 2, […]

As the storm of the scariest cold and flu season in American history approaches, it’s important for all of us to remember a proven, hopeful truth: COVID-19 has a proven Kryptonite and its name is alcohol-based hand sanitizer. As America readies to fight the terrifying double-trouble tandem of COVID-19 and influenza this fall, having hand […]

As Our Students Return To School, Education & Distancing Essential For Their Protection By Clete Campbell “Yesterday, all my troubles seemed so far away Now it looks as though they’re here to stay” Opening Line to “Yesterday” By The Beatles The invisible enemy is everywhere these days: On the breath of unsuspecting friends and neighbors, […]

As We Recognize Hand Hygiene Day, More Than Ever, Healthcare Facilities Need Comprehensive Hand Hygiene Programs By Clete Campbell Today, our hands are the most important instruments to the world’s health. Clean hands are the best chance for ourselves, our families, our neighbors, our communities, our state and nation to survive the COVID-19 pandemic. Never […]

Going to the extreme lengths of quarantining oneself from germs, a la legendary movie star Howard Hughes, isn’t much fun or mentally healthy, so our best defense remains arming ourselves in heavy germ zones. Having hand sanitizers at the ready are a great ally when we venture daily into some of germs’ favorite vacation spots. Here are our Top 11 Public Germ Hot Spots, which include some shocking places where bad germs lie in wait:

Fake news. False flu protection. That’s what the U.S. Food and Drug Administration is calling the claims of the nation’s biggest hand sanitizer company. The FDA warned GoJo Industries, the parent company of Purell hand sanitizer, in January to stop claiming the products can protect people from infections and illnesses.  According to the FDA, GoJo’s […]

U.S. Health Officials Caution Fast Rise of ‘Superbugs’ Present Public Health Epidemic By Clete Campbell We are officially living in a medical disaster movie. What seems like a shock news story lead is actually the alarming medial truth of “superbugs.” For as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention terms it, we are now […]

Following the 20-Second Rule can be the difference between dodging a cold and sidestepping the flu this season. Observing the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s recommended 20-second timeframe for washing hands with soap and water is literally nothing to sneeze at. For during this unpredictable and anticipated fierce 2019-20 cold and flu season, […]

Consuming gluten might not exactly be one of the seven deadly sins. But for people living with celiac disease and other health concerns, the protein that shares its name with the vice of excess is one of the last ingredients they want to read on a food ingredients label. Gluten, found commonly in wheat, barley […]

If you listen closely, you can hear a school bell already ringing. You can already make out the joyful noise coming from the playground at recess and smell the goulash in the cafeteria. It’s Back To School Season in America. This month, most of America’s 56.6 million elementary school students will return to the classroom.  […]

Triclosan is a word no one wants to read on the ingredient label of their antibacterial soap today. The Food and Drug Administration has banned the widely used and disputed antiseptic chemical, along with triclocarban and 17 other chemicals from being used in hand and body washes. Companies nationwide have been instructed to take these […]