7 items absolutely should not touch when entering the hospital, pay special attention to the number 1

Needle

It is not difficult to find needles in hospitals and preventive medicine. However, this is an extremely dangerous object. You cannot know if they have been used, contain any drugs in them, so if you touch them, it may be wrongly stabbed into your hands and feet.

Door knob

Door handles are also dangerous positions but everyone must touch them when they come here. That's why doctors and nurses often wear gloves constantly. Researchers say up to 30% of door handles in hospitals contain MRSA. In order not to be infected, they advised people to wash their hands before and after going to hospital.

Curtain around sick bed

Bacteria, viruses and other pathogenic microorganisms can cling to any surface. In a study published in the American Journal of Infection Control, the researchers tracked 18 curtains covering the hospital bed within two weeks.

From the time of cleaning to after two weeks, these curtains were filled with Staphylococcus aureus resistant bacteria (MRSA). It can cause many different infections, from skin infections to pneumonia, osteomyelitis,

Handrails on hospital beds

Pathogenic bacteria can live for weeks on stainless steel and other hard surfaces in hospitals. MRSA can live on it for up to a year, while bacteria like Clostridium difficile causing diarrhea can live up to several months.

Both patients and medical staff often touch the handrail on the sick bed so it becomes a place that contains a lot of bacteria. So, when people are sick, please wash the handrails with daily disinfecting water.

Elevator button

Doctors, nurses, hospital staff and many others often use elevators. Therefore, any pathogenic bacteria they come into contact with curtains or handrails can infect the elevator buttons. In a study published in Antimicrobial Resistance & Infection Control, the research team. Checked 48 different elevator buttons. They found that a third of them appeared staph resistant to MRSA antibiotics.

In addition, these lift buttons also contain diarrhea-causing E. coli and Acinetobacter that cause pneumonia, meningitis, Reader's Digest. The lift button is one of the less hygienic places in hospitals. They are often not properly cleaned or disinfected, so there are many bacteria on it.

The best way to prevent it is to wash your hands after touching or using a tissue or napkin to push the button when using the elevator, experts recommend.

Food Trays

It may sound strange but according to research, the hospital's food tray contains a lot of bacteria. Accordingly, about 90,000 people died of 'hospital infections'. The tray of food is a shared object, knowing how many people have touched and dropped food. Therefore, the infection of harmful bacteria from this is understandable.

Faucet washing hands

The hospital restroom is famous for being dirty, so the hand washing faucet here is not clean at all. It is truly a pathogen because the handle of the faucet will transmit bacteria from person to person every day, every hour. Better yet, use dry hand wash and paper towels when needed.