Hand sanitizer

The antibiotics that the scientists will be using are penicillin, tetracycline, and streptomycin; the two chosen disinfectants were hand sanitizer and multi-surface cleaner. The antibiotic Penicillin targets bacteria-specific proteins when the bacterium divides; it inhibits the reformation of a new cell wall and pops the daughter cells. Penicillin is most effective against gram-positive…

people die every day around the world from infections acquired while receiving Healthcare. Hands are the main pathways of germ transmission during Healthcare. Hand hygiene is therefore the most important measure to avoid the transmission of harmful germs and prevent Healthcare-associated infections. Any health-care worker, caregiver or person involved in direct or indirect patient care needs to be concerned about hand hygiene and should be able to perform it correctly and at the right time. WHY?…

“See if you can guess what I am now … I’m a zit. Get it?” - Bluto Background: The purpose of the antiseptic lab was to show the effectiveness of multiple antiseptics: hydrogen Peroxide, Purell hand sanitizer, Water and Iodine. The procedure of the lab for the first day involved our group acquiring a cotton swab and using the swab to gather the Propionibacterium acnes (P. acnes) bacteria from various spots around our face, we then grabbed a Petri dish filled only with a thin layer of agar. We…

In everyday life, people use antibacterial products to sanitize their homes. Some of the common active ingredients in household cleaning products are thymol, lactic acid, sodium hypochlorite, and ethanol (e.g. active ingredient in some hand sanitizers). The purpose of our experiment was to determine if antibacterial products lost effectiveness in killing common bacteria in everyday environments after repeated use. This is an important environmental issue because if these products are losing…

experiment I was surprised about how the hand sanitizers pH level was 6, making it an acid. This was startling because in the acid base property notes, it states that cleaning products are classified as bases. Although hand sanitizer is not a household cleaning product, it does help reduce the number of germs on your hands, which is similar to how a household disinfectant reduces the number of germs on a surface. Therefore, I was surprised that the hand sanitizer did not receive a pH greater…

Michael Pilato and American Germ guru Dr. Chuck Gerba. The three have partnered up to create a new-province-wide public health campaign titled “ Take a Stand with you Hands.” The campaign itself is focuses on eliminating germs in the classroom. Its focus is to teach students how easily germs are spread, especially through hand contact. “Our goal is to reduce the amount of germs in a classroom, so the students can enjoy coming to school without worrying about getting sick in flu season,” said…

problems is to maintain a perfect hygiene. Our hands especially, which are constantly filled with bacteria that can cause major harm to the body. Hospitals are easily considered one of the places with a lot of bacteria and infectious diseases. Doctors need to treat the patient right away and at times cannot afford to wash their hands and need a quicker solution. Hand sanitizers get the job done and destroy 99.99% of all germs. Doctors need to use hand sanitizer as a means of destroying and…

The Unique Coach Purse Almost every girl has a purse that, one way or another, captures and impersonates a girl in a particular way. Some purses are grand, while others are petite. Nonetheless, every purse has the exact compatible purpose of holding items a girl needs to bring along with her, wherever she may travel. However, the Coach purse happens to be a unique purse because of its look, size, and smell. The exterior is made out of a very smooth, black leather material, extremely similar…

Personal Hygiene, claims washing your hands and wrist often can prevent the spread of disease. Just by washing your hands you can take minor precautious, but living in the 20th century it is time to come up with more efficient way to decrease the spreading. First, we need to tweak our hand sanitizer. ABC News article, Study: Hand Sanitizer Also Kills Good Bacteria, shows that hand sanitizer kills 99% germs. What the labels are not showing is that the sanitizer is killing all germs, even the good…

This time it was worse, she had puked the whole way there. Larry kept pulling the bottle of sanitizer out of his pocket, and squeezing it into his hand. Larry’s eyes shifted from the coughing baby whose diaper had leaked through his pants, to another kid whose snot bubble was about to explode—right along with Larry’s patience. “Stinks in here,” Said Larry, while he emptied the last of the sanitizer into his hand. The hospital was the last place he wanted to be. The waiting, germs, people…