Three quarters of children are washing their hands more than ever, a new study shows Credit: Getty Images - Getty. And 41 per cent of children even revealed they have had to remind their mums and ...

Young children inevitably have a lot of runny noses and sore throats, but how they clean their hands could cut back on how often they miss day care, according to a study published Monday in the ...

Three quarters of children are washing their hands more than ever, a study has revealed. Research of 500 kids aged five-11 and their parents found youngsters typically wash their hands nine times ...

Almost one-third of parents say their children do not automatically wash their hands after coughing, according to a new poll. Nearly two-fifths of those asked said it was also a struggle to get ...

Figure 1 - % children (5-10 years) always washing their hands with soap at school and home settings. At schools, less than half of children (44%) said that someone ensures they always wash their ...

If the COVID-19 pandemic has taught us anything, it's that frequent hand-washing is one of the best ways to avoid getting sick and spreading illness.

Students wash their hands at school in Essankro, Côte d'Ivoire. Regular handwashing is not yet a common practice in Côte d'Ivoire, where one out of three people living in rural areas do not have ...

The advice being by health authorities is to wash your hands with soap and warm water for at least 20 seconds, roughly the same amount of time it takes to sing “Happy Birthday” twice.

Over an eight-month period, the group of children that used the hand sanitizers had 23 percent fewer respiratory infections.

Nothing beats good hand hygiene when trying to stay healthy. “Wash your hands, any soap, twenty seconds at least, or an alcohol-based sanitizer, will do the job,” says Dr ...

Now I teach the children to wash their hands after using the toilet and before eating,” said Jessica Quizpe, childcare worker at the Wawa Wasi childcare center in San Juan de Lurigancho, Lima.

Study links hand washing dishes to fewer allergies 00:54. Most parents want their children to live in an environment that's clean and sanitary. We all buy home appliances that allow us to keep our ...