Mom was right

You do have your clients wash their hands before they sit in your chair?

No?

Do you really know where they have been and what they have been doing?

Hand washing is the single most important step in preventing the spread of infectious disease.

Hand sanitizer is great, it works well. It is not a substitute for hand washing.

Hand sanitizer is like mouthwash. It has its place. If you don’t brush your teeth, even if you use mouthwash, guess what… Your teeth are going to fall out.

If you don’t have your clients wash their hands before they sit down, there is a simple solution to your problem. Start doing it. I don’t care if they get offended. I don’t care if they laugh at you. It is your job to keep your clients safe. If you don’t have them wash their hands you are directly responsible for the spread of disease. Do you want that on your resume?

Start today, just do it.

***
Hepatitis A virus usually enters the body through the mouth. Transmission occurs mainly when a person puts something in his or her mouth that has been contaminated with stool from a person infected with hepatitis A virus. Therefore, hepatitis A virus spreads most easily when sanitary conditions and personal hygiene are poor.–CDC (US Centers for Disease Control)

***
CELEBS including MADONNA, BRUCE WILLIS and GWYNETH PALTROW are at the centre of a Hepatitis A scare following a party thrown by DEMI MOORE.
Health officials yesterday warned guests at the bash Demi threw for toyboy hubby ASHTON KUTCHER’s 30th to see a doctor urgently.
The alert was sounded after a barman at the New York club venue was found to have the highly contagious liver disease Hepatitis A.

***
“This horrific and debilitating condition was left under my thumb nail as a direct result of the salon using non-sanitized instruments. This type of infection has caused not only me, but thousands of women the expense of medical attention, loss of wages, loss of sleep, traumatic medical procedures, fear of returning to nail salons, and in my case and many others, emergency surgeries.” “I'm no stranger to pain. My tolerance is this high…but this kind of pain was so excruciating, that even my hair touching my thumb and the bed sheet touching my thumb caused me to scream. If left untreated it could have lead to the loss of a limb or worse, death.” -Paula Abdul

In a tribulation that lasted 13 months and was proven to have originated from dirty equipment at a manicure salon, Paula Abdul had to fight a flesh eating bacteria that developed into a full blown streptococcus infection.
***

In 2000, an outbreak of Mycobacterium fortuitum furunculosis affected customers using whirlpool footbaths at a nail salon. We swabbed 30 footbaths in 18 nail salons from 5 California counties and found mycobacteria in 29 (97%) –CDC (US Centers for Disease Control)