2. Lather your hands with traditional soap. Be sure to lather the palms of your hands, the backs of your hands, between your fingers and under your nails. 3.

Why washing your hands is important It was more than 150 years ago that Dr. Ignaz Semmelweis noticed that the patients in the care of nurses/midwives who washed their hands were three times less ...

Washing hands correctly is one of the easiest ways to avoid foodborne illnesses, which sickens 48 million Americans each year, according to CDC estimates. That results in roughly 128,000 ...

4. Spread the lather to the backs of your hands and in between your fingers. Try to get it under your fingernails too -- bonus points if you use a nail brush to remove more dirt and germs. 5.

Unlike so many things in life, washing your hands properly is something we can all do — it’s well worth the extra 20 seconds. A version of this story was originally published in July 2018.

ATLANTA — Washing your hands for 20 seconds can seem like a long time, enough time to wonder why 20 seconds became the rule. It’s roughly the amount of time it takes you to sing the alphabet ...

Just imagine the at-home percentage… The numbers were slightly better for women revealing that one in five, or 20 percent of ladies have the same bad habit. Sixty-five percent of women believe hand ...

- Make it fun. Sing with your children while they wash their hands. Use fun soap, such as SquidSoap which stamps a child's hand with vetegable dye and doesn't come off until 20 seconds of washing.

It's most important to maintain the lather as you're scrubbing, Busch Isaksen says. You can always add a little more soap if needed to make sure you see a healthy crop of bubbles on your hands ...

That way, keeping hands clean will become a habit as they get older. Make it a point to implement hand washing, and keep a chart or awards system if necessary.

Hand-washing seems pretty simple, but a recent study shows that 97% of the time, we're still doing it wrong -- which can lead to contamination of food and surfaces and result in foodborne illness.