Question

Why should you wash your hands before eating?

Answer 1

• Hands carry a lot of harmful microbes through contacts with germ-infested surfaces such as door knobs, dust covered surfaces, nose blowing, sneezing, handling dirty and rusty stuff, and even through handshakes.
• Handwashing with soap or sanitizers before eating is necessary to prevent hand to mouth transferred diseases and gastrointestinal infections.
• Viral and bacterial infections transferred through hand to mouth and physical contact are -dysentery, diarrhoea, flu, fever etc.