Keep Germs Away Everyday

KEEP GERMS AW AY, EVERY DAY !

How to Protect Yourself and Others from “the

Flu”• Proper Hand Washing• Cover Your Cough• Get an flu shot every year• Stay Home if You are Sick• Don’t visit people in hospitals or

long-term care homes when you are sick with influenza• Exercise regularly and eat a

healthy, well balanced diet

7 After touching “high-traffic” items like doorknobs or shopping carts

8 Handling dirty laundry & garbage

9 Tending to someone who is sick

ASH YOUR HANDS OFTEN ITH SOAP AND WATER

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6 Steps Hand Washing

How to use an Alcohol-Based Hand

Sanitizer• Use only if hands are not

visibly dirty• Use on dry hands• Use enough sanitizer to wet

both hands thoroughly • Rub in between and around

fingers, back of each hand, thumbs, and nail beds

• Keep rubbing until hands are dry

COVER YOUR COUGHOR SNEEZE ! !

• Use a tissue and dispose appropriately

• Cough or sneeze into your arm or sleeve

• Wash your hands

• Maintain a distance of one meter with people who are coughing or sneezing

Hand Washing Song ! ! !“Twinkle, twinkle little star,

Look how clean my two hands are,

Soap and water, wash and scrub

Get those germs off rub-a-dub.

Twinkle, twinkle little star,Look how clean my two hands are!”

By…..RIS Clinic