Majority of people understand clearly that regular cleaning is a great manner to keep your rental home safe during flu season. But, really, cleaning just the blatant dirt may not be quite enough. Doorknobs, light switches, computer keyboards, smartphones, tablets, television remotes, and game controllers are easy to miss when cleaning the house. If you are not sanitizing them regularly, they may heap up more harmful bacteria than your toilet.
How dirty are standard handheld devices?
It is strongly proposed that you regularly clean your smartphone, tablet, keyboard, mouse, television remote, and gaming controller. As these electronic devices are touched so often each day, particularly phones, controllers, and remotes, they can have ten times the amount of bacteria found on other surfaces in your home!
Consider this seriously: each time you touch something and then touch your phone or computer keyboard, you’ve transferred bacteria from one surface to the other.
The more recurrently you touch a particular surface, the more bacteria will collect there, straight off becoming a serious health hazard. On the period of flu season, it’s easy to pick up germs and unawarely pass them along to others by sharing devices, controllers – even the TV remote. This is what makes cleaning your dirty devices critical. If you aren’t cleaning your devices every day or after every use, the chances are rather high that they might get you or your family sick.
Surfaces you touch every day
Have you ever tried to totally keep track of everything you touch around the house daily? You may be actually surprised! High-touch surfaces, more particularly, get a lot of use but, in point of fact, may not make it onto your general cleaning lists. For instance, doorknobs, cabinet handles, window blind controls, and light switches are all touched daily, typically innumerable times daily.
If you haven’t wiped these surfaces down with a germ-killing solution, they are disputably harboring high levels of harmful bacteria. Studies have found these surfaces usually contain far more bacteria per square inch than your toilet.
Sanitizing high-touch surfaces in your home is especially essential in the time of flu season. But, in fact, these surfaces cannot squarely be sprayed with liquid cleaners or disinfectants. Spraying anything on your tech devices will usually damage them. Instead, you can apply wipes designed to clean electronic devices. These wipes characteristically contain alcohol, which kills harmful bacteria.
For other high-touch surfaces around the house, use a microfiber cloth and spray a disinfectant solution on the cloth, not directily on the light switch or doorknob. A commercial cleaning solution that specifically indicates it will kill bacteria will work for your home’s plastic or other durable surfaces. Just don’t use harsh chemicals on painted surfaces, wood, or natural stone, as the chemicals will damage these areas.
Other than high-touch surfaces, the CDC recommends washing your hands frequently and cleaning all surfaces in your home with a disinfectant apropriate for the type of surface you’re cleaning. Just be mindfully careful to have proper ventilation and take to heart the label directions, no matter what cleaning agent you love. By taking these extra preventive measures, you can keep your home as germ-free as possible during flu season and for the entire year.
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Originally Published on November 26, 2021
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