Proper Handwashing

How to wash your hands properly? Thorough hand washing is especially important after potential contact with pathogens. For example, after going to the toilet, after sneezing or coughing into your hand, after changing your child’s diaper, after contact with animals or sick people, and after contact with waste or raw meat. To protect yourself and … Proper Handwashing

Hand Hygiene

1. hand hygiene with a hand disinfectant. Indications for use: For routine disinfection, for example before and after direct contact with a patient. Duration: 20 to 30 seconds 2. hand hygiene with soap and water (hand washing). Indications for use: Only for visibly contaminated hands, for example with blood or other body fluids. After visiting … Hand Hygiene

Ringworm

Symptoms Ringworm (erythema infectiosum) occurs mainly in children and during the cold season and manifests itself in flu-like symptoms such as fever, feeling sick, headache, muscle aches, sore throat, and nausea. A typical feature is the red rash on the face, which looks as if the child has been slapped in the face (“ear slap … Ringworm

Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease

Symptoms Hand-foot-and-mouth disease manifests itself in the following possible symptoms: Initially, there are nonspecific complaints such as mild fever, headache, feeling sick, lack of appetite and sore throat. Subsequently, painful, red rashes form on the tongue, palate and oral mucosa, which turn into blisters and ulcers. A rash develops on the palms of the hands … Hand-Foot-Mouth Disease