Fun and Safe Cleaning Hacks to Ponder During this Global Pandemic
You’ve probably learned by now that the coronavirus that causes COVID-19 can persist for hours or even days on surfaces. And you might be wondering what that means and the home cleaning routine for your wellbeing.
It is important to remember that by aerosol droplets, aka drops of saliva or snot from the infected person entering the air and getting into your nose or mouth, the virus is much easier to transmit from person to person. Is it theoretically possible, from a contaminated surface, for anyone to get sick? Yeah, they rub their face or place their hands in their mouth without first washing their hands if they touch the floor. Although it’s less possible.
We know that throughout research of the COVID-19 virus, the virus is primarily spread when respiratory droplets in the mouth, nose or eyes of people who are close by are produced by the infected person (generated by coughing, sneezing, talking, singing). We now also know that people may be infected and transmit the virus, even without any symptoms, to others. After touching surfaces contaminated with the virus, people can often become infected by touching their mouth, nose or eyes. The virus will live for a few hours, up to several days, on surfaces. The good news here? It can be killed by simple disinfectants.
Even so, keeping your home and your hands clean is necessary. Here you will get to know how high-touch surfaces should be washed and sanitized.
Clean every day, please don’t obsess
Keeping clean things isn’t bad. Other viruses or foodborne diseases can be avoided by you. But no need to get obsessed. Considering items like kitchen countertops and bowls of toilets, and other surface areas that become dusty, cleaning out high-usage surfaces once or twice a day. Wipe the door handles and light switches down if you like, too.
When someone is ill, clean up regularly
The whole thing about “no obsessive cleaning” shifts drastically if you take care of someone who is ill in your home. They may not have COVID-19 (or you don’t know), but you need to clean pretty well unless you want to catch what they’ve got. Isolate the ill person at all hours and lie 6 feet away from them. Let them use another bathroom if necessary, and definitely don’t share anything. One means of distributing germs is to pass a toothpaste tube. Prepare the meals, if possible, by using dishes and cutlery. If this is not a privilege and the food is to be cleaned, perform so in the warmest room in the dishwasher. Similarly, in hot water, they wash their garments. And, of course, wash your paws, or something they touch, when you come into contact.
After washing disinfect properly
Do you think you should just spray and call it nice on disinfectant? Not so easily. The organic material will inactivate the disinfectant if you have food particles, body fluids or dust and you put a disinfectant on it. To stop this, wash it first and then rinse it with a standard cleaning solution or soap and water.
How you should disinfect
The cleaning solutions must not be cleaned off as they are added to a floor. In order to be effective, many disinfectant products, such as napkins and sprays, must remain wet on a surface for several minutes.You can also hire professional Cleaners Camberwell to disinfect your home.
No shipments need to be disinfected
You’ve seen numerous stories in the media already about whether it’s safe to get deliveries or not. And you get a lot of shipments now that you’re waiting there. Does that mean that you can clean every portion of the product that you get? No, it is totally superfluous. A relatively minor risk remains that the latest coronavirus will contaminate goods and that the box handling will theoretically make them even less ill. Coronavirus (COVID-19) can live on surfaces but only at low levels of viruses. Thus, if anyone were to get ill, they would have to touch the object and touch the face and take it into their mouth or eyes. Open it outside, take the things out and empty the boxes in the recirculation bin if you’re worried about it.
Gloves are not mandatory
Some people prefer to scrub with gloves on, most don’t. Do whatever suits best for you, but keep in mind that now is not the time for rubber or other single-use gloves to accumulate: they are required by health care workers (same for surgical masks).After cleaning, make sure you wash your hands. It’s cool if you want to use these yellow rubber gloves for washing; just give them a rinse when you’re done, then wash your hands.
Paper versus towels that are reusable
When you’re done, if you want to clean the paper towels so you can throw them away. Go for it. But it’s good to use reusable towels or sponges as long as you can scrub them at the highest temperature using either your dishwasher or washing machine. Put the sponge into the dishwasher machine if you are using sponges to clean dishes.
If the disinfectant is missing, what to do?
Disinfectant towels and sprays have become difficult to purchase in recent days and seem to be falling off the shelf when you reach the market. There are some DIY concoctions you can make that can do the work if you run out of the disinfectant. Using 70% alcohol or 1:1 mixture of alcohol and water to clean your phone or other products. Mix a 1 percent solution of bleach with water for harder situations like sinks or toilets. Alcohol and bleach, though, can be corrosive on some products, so do some internet testing to figure out what you can and shouldn’t disinfect. And use good, traditional, pure soap and water when everything else fails.
Washing hands and social insulation is more important than washing hands
In the end, what you clean and how much you clean is less important than two other things: washing your hands and distancing yourself from others. Since COVID-19 is mainly dispersed by aerosol droplets, it is important to stay away from others, protecting not only you but them and the community as a whole.
Author Bio: Sophia James is a professional cleaner having more than 5 years in the cleaning industry currently working with Bull18 Cleaners – Best bond back cleaning, end of lease cleaners in Camberwell, Melbourne. She loves writing and sharing a variety of blogs on cleaning.
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