5 Expert Tips For Avoiding Covid-19 When School Starts

1. Wash Your Hands Properly

It’s not enough to just “wash your hands”. If you aren’t a surgeon, a molecular biologist, or work in the food industry, you probably don’t even know how to properly wash your hands. If you don’t wash your hands properly, you can still spread germs AND get sick, so make sure you take the time to read below the steps to properly wash your hands.

Five steps to wash your hands properly:

1. Wet your hands with clean, running water (warm or cool, not scalding hot), turn off the faucet and apply one pump of hand soap.
2. Lather up your hands and make bubbles by rubbing both hands together. Spread soap to the backs of your hands, between your fingers, your wrists, and don’t forget under your nails (esp if they are long).
3. Scrub your hands continually for at least 20 seconds, but 30 secs is ideal. Try humming the “Happy Birthday” song from beginning to end twice if you need a timer.
4. Rinse all the soap off your hands under clean, running water.
5. Dry both hands using a clean towel, paper towels or air dry them.

You can see from the graphic below what happens if you
half-ass your handwashing!

Notice that even after 15 seconds of soap and water that knuckles, in between fingers, and around the cuticles still have visible germs. Go the extra mile and wash your hands for the full 30 seconds to prevent the spread of illness and germs!

Hemp Seed Body Care just released a unique and affordable hand soap amidst this pandemic. This nutrient-rich hand wash combines cleansing ingredients like eucalyptus and green tea with gentle exfoliants and moisturizers that will keep your hands clean, hydrated, and free from dryness and cracking with every wash. It’s even better than antibacterial soap.

Hemp Seed Body Care’s Hand Wash can be purchased online at www.hempseedbodycare.com for $9.99.

2. When To Use Hand Sanitizer

Since 30 seconds of hand washing seems like a waste of time, you may be tempted to use hand sanitizer instead because it’s quicker and easier. But do you know how or when to use hand sanitizer?

Obviously, hand soap and water is the best, most effective way to get your hands clean. However, there are many situations when warm water and hand soap might not be available like after your pump gas or load the groceries into your car. In cases like that, you should use an alcohol-based hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. (Most hand sanitizers contain 62% ethyl alcohol.)

Some people are choosing to make their own hand sanitizer too because of how difficult it is to find it in the stores. If you happen to come across alcohol and aloe vera gel, you can totally make your own hand sanitizer! Both those products seem to be hard to come by as well though.

How to properly use hand sanitizer

• Apply hand sanitizer into the palm of one hand (read the label to find out how much – usually one pump).
• Rub your hands together making sure to cover all the areas you would get to if washing your hands with soap and water.
• Continue rubbing hands together for around 20 seconds or until your hands are dry.

3. Don’t Destroy Your Skin

All the hand washing, hand sanitizers, disinfectants, and cleaning chemicals will do a number on your hands real quick if you aren’t careful! We have skin-saving tips from Dr. James Beckman, Biochemist, Board Certified Plastic and Reconstructive Surgeon and Founder of Therapon Skin Health to help make sure you don’t destroy your skin.

To protect your hands this season, Dr. Beckman suggests:

Watch the temperature of water – try to use lukewarm or cool water even during the winter months to avoid over-drying.

Pat dry, don’t rub dry – After washing hands, gently pat your skin dry instead of rubbing your skin dry. By patting dry your skin will retain more moisture you are going to seal in when you moisturize.

Drink more water – the moisture your skin receives also comes from your body. 

Use mild soaps and detergents – soaps that contain alcohol strip natural oils from your skin.

Give extra attention to your hands—hands show the effects of a dry environment more than any other part of the body. Apply hand cream after each hand washing.

Source: www.theraderm.net

Dr. Beckman recommends using a moisturizing hand lotion like Theraderm Extreme Dry Skin Therapy. It can help replenish your skin’s natural moisture barrier and help infuse moisture in the deeper layers of your skin. Theraderm Extreme Dry Skin Therapy contains premium, super-fine grade lanolin that replaces your skin’s natural oils, allowing them to heal. Nobody wants hand sanitizer on their dry, cracked skin! Ouch! So make sure you take care of your skin when you are home so it can handle the demands of hand washing when you aren’t home.

Washing your hands a lot can dry out your hands, especially if the soap you use contains harsh chemicals. So it is necessary to choose the right soap that has natural ingredients like goat milk. Goat milk products will not dry out your hands but on the contrary will make them smooth and soft.

5. Boost Your Immune System

Obviously, prevention is the best medicine so if you haven’t already been doing everything you need to in order to boost your immune system against coronavirus and the flu, check out our protocol below.

Mama’s Protocol

• Rainbow Light Counter Attack – 2 tablets 2x / day
• Sodium Ascorbate Powder (or capsules) – 10,000+ mg / day
• Nature’s Way Elderberry Syrup – 2-4 tsp / day
• Vitamin D3 – 5,000 iu / day

Child Protocol

• Probiolicious Plus Gummies Organic Superfood Blend – 1-2 gummies / day
• Sodium Ascorbate Powder (or capsules) – 5,000+ mg / day
• Herb Pharm Immune Avenger – 5-10 drops in water 3-5 x / day
• JoySpring Elderberry Blend – 2-3 droppers full / day
• Lolleez Organic Throat Soothing Lollipops – when necessary

Baby Protocol

• Wellements Organic Probiotic Drops – 5 drops / day
• Wellements Organic Vitamin D Drops – 2-3 drops / day
• Lots of breastmilk and sunshine!

Diffuse Plant Therapy Germ Fighter in the house (and carry the roll-on with you!)

Use a humidifier in every room of your house. Humidity is proven to help capture viruses and can help decrease the spreading of germs. Also be sure to change the filters on your furnace and consider getting a whole house uv light for ducts and Hvac systems.

Airfree Tulip Air Purifier destroys mold, dust mites, bacteria, viruses, pollens, pet dander, organic odors, and other organic allergens. It’s completely silent as it takes contaminated air into the unit by natural air convection and then eliminates the microorganisms at temperatures of close to 400 °F. The sterilized air is then cooled before being returned to the environment.

Hopefully, all these tips will help you PREVENT yourself from getting coronavirus or the flu, and in the unfortunate event that you do get sick, these tips should help you with self-care for coronavirus and treating your flu symptoms too.