HAND SANITIZER TRANSCRIPT
Hand Sanitizer with Dr. Ron Blanton Transcript
Hi, I’m Ron Blanton, the chairman of the department of Tropical Medicine at the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, and I’m here to talk to you about hand sanitizer and washing your hands. Hand sanitizer is very useful and a handy thing to have if you’re out on the street or if you’re out shopping or in the grocery store and if there is no place with soap and water you can use. What you want to do is take a generous amount on the palm of your hand, enough to wet both hands really well. Rub it in. Be sure to get between your fingers, the backs of your hands, all the way up to your wrist, and don’t forget to wash your thumbs. Massage your thumbs. Do all of this until the hand sanitizer evaporates, until it dries, until your hands are dry. It should take 10 or 15 seconds. I’m out here today showing you this because that’s the proper use and the proper place for hand sanitizer. I only have this little pitiful amount of hand sanitizer because it’s been in my car for ages. I almost never use it. When I go out, usually there is sanitizer in most grocery stores and when I’m home, hand sanitizer is really not what you want to use. What you really want to do is wash your hands because that is even more effective than using hand sanitizer.
