Hand Sanitizer Virus Protection

Virus Protection Using Hand Sanitizer

Both alchohol based and some non-alcohol based hand sanitizers have been proven effective in preventing the H1NI virus, or swine flu. While a virus cannot be killed, the sanitizer does make your hand less hospitable to viruses. Hand sanitizers are able to kill bacteria on your hands thus helping to prevent many gastrointestinal and respiratory illnesses.

Popular hand sanitizer Tazza offers a list of bacteria that their hand sanitizer kills which includes some of the well-known bacterias such as:

Staphylococcus aureus
Salmonella
Streptococcus pnemonia
More

Dr. Paul Sehdev with the Providence St. Vincent Medical Center says ?people should use it several times a day. Typically, it?s about two squirts, and you want to rub it all over your hands, up under your fingernails if possible, and you want to keep rubbing it until your hands are completely dry.?

?It is not dangerous to you, it is not toxic to you, it can be drying to your hands, but probably less drying than soap to be honest,? says Dr. Sehdev, ?and it is not likely that bacteria are going to be resistant to it, because it is such a high concentration of alcohol."