Scribner‐Snyder High School 

Mallory Boyle, Makayla Brainard, Heather Cleary, David Dunklau, Alexandria McMillen, and Natalie 

Robart  

The Trojan Times Special Report: Student Health and Well-Being

volume XII - issue 9 - February 20th, 2013

4 5Correct Handwashing:

The First Line of Defense

Handwashing requires you use soap and water, not just water. On the left, you can see hands that have been lathered up with soap. On the right, you can see what too many people do - simply rinsing with water. One kills germs, the other doesn’t. Which do you do? Photos by Heather Cleary and David Dunklau.

We’ve come to that time of year when sicknesses spread uncontrollably throughout the community and it makes it hard

Our hands touch all sorts of surfaces—doorknobs, tables, and so on. This can coat our hands in all sorts of nasty germs that can make us sick. Accord-ing to www.getreadyforflu.org, hand-washing is the most im-portant and probably the easiest way to avoid illness. This is es-pecially important to do before

create a lather and scrub your hands, especially the places you don’t really think about like the backs of your hands and under your nails. You should do this for fifteen to twenty seconds (or the time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice) before rinsing off your hands and drying them. Hand sanitizers are also a good alternative in some situations, but only when the hands are not visibly dirty.

According to www.sca.com, 71% percent of Ameri-cans claim they use good hand hygiene and wash their hands regularly. While that’s a pretty

You should do this for fifteen to

twenty seconds (or the time it takes to sing “Happy

Birthday” twice) before rinsing off your hands and

drying them.

for us to stay healthy. There isn’t much we can do to prevent it from spread-ing—it’s just that time of year. There is one re-ally big thing we can do, though, to protect our-selves from getting sick: wash our hands.

we eat or prepare food, after using the restroom, and after we cough or sneeze.

Believe it or not, there is a “correct” way to wash your hands. First you must wet your

hands with warm water and apply soap. Then you need to rub your hands together and

vast majority, there are still roughly nine-ty million people that lack these good hab-its. With flu season at its peak, we must re-ally remember simple ways like this to keep us healthy. No one likes being sick and hand-washing is one of the easiest ways to protect yourself.

One of the biggest self-esteem issues for junior high kids and up throughout high school years is acne. Some people have ma-jor issues trying to control it and it is not very much fun. Thank-fully, they have so many prod-

ucts that can treat this some-times embarrassing blemish.

A few of the most popular products are Proactiv and Clean and Clear, you can also buy many of these products for just a few dollars at Wal-Mart which is extremely convenient.

As long as you can keep up with the daily routine of keep-ing your face clean, these will help you in the long run! At the most, in some cases the face

wash requires you to wash your face in the morning and at night.

Washing your face only takes an average of about three minutes and it leaves your face feeling clean and fresh. In some cases, acne can get so drastic that it seems absolutely nothing can help treat it. Dermatolo-gists have the ability to do some amazing work. They may treat you in the office or have you take pills, which sadly might

dry out your skin. Some people also use face masks to keep up with their face cleansing rou-tine.

Either way, acne can be controlled as long as you take the right steps. Once acne gets to the very drastic stages, it has the ability to scar your face, and that is another reason why you want to try and treat it as soon as it starts. I would recommend that once you hit your junior

Teenage Acne: No Longer Puberty’s Scourgehigh years, you start washing your face on a daily ba-sis. It is way better to be prepared once those terrible years come up; face wash will soon be your best friend if you use it on a daily basis. Face care will always be important!

Washing your clothes is one of the many things that is im-portant to personal hygiene. The process of washing your clothes is quite simple and hardly a chore.

When your clothes are dirty you wash them. Now you can’t just put them all in the washer, you have to sort them by color. This keeps your darks from bleeding into your whites. There are different settings for certain colors, (if you don’t know what they are you can look up a chart or usually there is a guide on the inside of your lid).

After you have sorted all the clothes you put one color at a

time into the washer checking for stains that you need to treat.

Once you have your load ready you can put in the deter-gent and start the washer. Now this may take about an hour or so. When you hear the buzzer go off you take the load out of the washer and directly put it in the dryer. Depending on the amount you are drying it could take from 20 to 80 minutes.

When the dryer buzzes you fold the clothes and put them away. A few tips to make this go faster is while your clothes are in the process you can find a book to read, homework that needs done, or take a nap.

Why Wait ‘Til Col-lege? Laundry Skills

Valuable, Needed

Sanitize After You Sneeze, Please!During the winter months, colds and the flu can easily spread if you sneeze in your hands or blow your nose. To help stop the spread of these germs, make sure to use the Purell dispensers around campus to kill the germs and keep everyone healthy. Photos by Heather Cleary.

Far Left: Working out is great for student health, but can also lead to body odor. Regu-lar showering can keep this under control and shows respect for others.Above, Left, and Right: We are surrounded by surfaces that we touch daily, from handrails and door handles to water fountains and lockers.Photos by Autumn Schulen-berg and Heather Cleary.