{"id":52483,"date":"2025-04-25T22:02:30","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T02:02:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/mayo-health-library\/mayo-clinic-minute-youre-washing-your-hands-all-wrong\/"},"modified":"2026-02-04T12:05:48","modified_gmt":"2026-02-04T17:05:48","slug":"mayo-clinic-minute-youre-washing-your-hands-all-wrong","status":"publish","type":"mayo","link":"https:\/\/www.hancockhealth.org\/fr\/mayo-health-library\/mayo-clinic-minute-youre-washing-your-hands-all-wrong\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayo Clinic Minute: You&#8217;re washing your hands all wrong"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"container mx-auto   wordpress-block wordpress- core-\">\n<p><strong>Ian Roth:<\/strong> Children often are taught at a young age to wash their hands &mdash; before eating and after using the restroom. It&#8217;s an easy and effective way to stay healthy and avoid spreading disease.<\/p>\n<p>But Dr. Gregory Poland, director of<br \/>\nMayo Clinic\u2019s Vaccine Research Group says adults could do much better at the sink.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory Poland, M.D.:<\/strong> People go to the bathroom and they run their fingers under the water. Well, that does nothing. And, then they grab the dirty faucet, and they touch the dirty handle on the way out of the<br \/>\nbathroom.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Ian Roth:<\/strong> Dr. Poland says that in public washrooms there are often more bacteria on those faucets than in the toilet water. So, next time you\u2019re at the<br \/>\nsink\u2026<\/p>\n<p><strong>Gregory Poland, M.D.:<\/strong> So you wash your hands while singing happy birthday to yourself, you get between the fingers, the fingertips, the thumb, you turn the water off with a paper towel, and you open the door to leave with a paper towel and dispose of the paper towel. 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