Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
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Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
Meigs Health Matters… The importance of handwashing
senior portraits, professional portrait
Keeping hands clean is especially important to help prevent COVID-19 and other viruses from spreading. Handwashing is one of the best ways to keep you and your family from getting sick. Germs can spread from other people or surfaces when you touch your eyes, nose, or mouth with your hands. Transmissions can occur when you prepare food or drinks with unwashed hands. And also, when you sneeze, cough, or blow your nose and then touch common objects.
The Centers for Disease Control recommends washing your hands for 20 seconds with soap and water or using a hand sanitizer of at least 60% alcohol to avoid the transmission of germs. Critical times for handwashing are before and after:
MCHD provides range of nursing services
By Sarah Hawley - shawley@aimmediamidwest.com
Editor’s note: This is the second in a series of articles regarding the 2020 annual report from the Meigs County Health Department.
POMEROY Among the services available at the Meigs County Health Department are several which fall under the public health nursing program.
These services include Project DAWN, immunizations, tobacco cessation, communicable disease reporting and other programs and health checks.
Leanne Cunningham is the Director of Nursing at the Meigs County Health Department, with nurse and certified tobacco treatment specialist Sherry Hayman and public health nurse Terri Hoschar, who joined the team in October. Regional Epidemiologist Mikie Strite also works with the Meigs County Health Department.
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Meigs Health Matters… Importance of quitting smoking
Meigs Health Matters - By Jessica Snoke
We are learning new things about Coronavirus every day. We know that smoking increases your risk of a less than desirable outcome, if you get Covid-19.
If you are a smoker, you have an increased risk of hospitalization and death from the virus according to the Centers for Disease Control. Smoking impairs lung function making it more difficult to fight off diseases such as Coronavirus and others. Smokers also are more likely to have other diseases such as high blood pressure, coronary artery disease, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), which further increases their risk of bad outcomes.