Now Wash Your Hands

How to wash your hands:
Wet hands with water
Apply enough soap and handwash to cover all hand surfaces
Rub hands palm to palm
Right palm over the other hand with interlaced fingers and vice versa
Palm to palm with fingers interlaced
Backs of fingers to opposing palms with fingers interlocked
Rotational rubbing of left thumb clasped in right palm and vice versa
Rotational rubbing, backwards and forwards with clasped fingers of right hand in left palm and vice versa
Rince hands with water
Dry thoroughly with towel. Duration of procedure: At least 15 seconds

To see the correct way of washing your hands, please see the steps outlined above.

Acknowledgement goes to the World Health Organisation for the use of their hand washing technique diagrams.

Alternatively:

I have a half a billion germs
I keep as tiny pets.
They're cute and clean and never mean
and give me no regrets.

They spend all day engaged in play
upon my skin and hair.
They're on my clothes, between my toes
and in my underwear.

They dance and shout and bounce about.
They run and jump and slide.
My epidermis teems with germs
who party on my hide.

I never fret about the pets
inside my shirt and socks.
I love them there but wonder where
they keep their litter box?


--Kenn Nesbitt