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Hygiene is understood to mean all behaviors and measures that prevent the transmission of pathogens. Effective hygiene management not only offers patients, customers, and residents but also staff and visitors to community facilities protection and security from dangerous diseases. Hygiene management includes regular and properly carried out disinfection, this may include using spunlace nonwoven fabric wet wipes.

Many activities in health care, community facilities, welfare, food processing, etc. require strict adherence to hand hygiene as the most important basic hygiene measure. It not only protects patients, residents, guests, and customers but also the employees themselves from infectious diseases.

•Surface Disinfection
Pathogens are not only transmitted through hands, instruments, or blood, but also through inanimate surfaces. Surfaces that are very often touched with the hands or come into contact with mucous membranes or body fluids harbor an increased risk of infection.  We may depend on disinfectant wipes to decrease the risk of being contaminated. From these areas, germs z. B. be carried on the hands or dust. In hygienically sensitive areas, surface disinfection is used to prevent infection to protect patients, residents, visitors, customers, or employees. Particularly in medical areas, nursing homes, childcare, facilities for the disabled, in the food sector, etc., certain surfaces must be disinfected regularly.
 
•Instrument Disinfection
Used medical instruments can be contaminated with pathogens and thus be the source of infections in humans.
 
The reprocessing of medical products - including the instruments - is associated with a great deal of responsibility. It must be carried out in accordance with the requirements of the Medical Devices Act (MPG) and the Medical Device Operator Ordinance
Instruments can be disinfected both automatically and manually. This training module only deals with manual disinfection of instruments.
 
•Food Hygiene
Poor hygiene in the production and processing of food can endanger the health of consumers, patients, residents, or guests. Anyone who processes or markets food can use it for B. contaminate with foreign bodies and chemicals or contaminate with pathogens. We can neither see, smell nor taste the latter in food. It is therefore of great importance that all employees in the food sector always conscientiously observe the hygiene rules.
 
By the way, food hygiene affects us all, because everyone finds themselves in the role of guest, customer, or consumer every day.
 
In the meantime, however, resistance to several antibiotic agents has developed among certain bacteria, so that one speaks of multi-resistant pathogens (MRE). Their spread is a growing problem in medical institutions and is considered by experts to be one of the greatest health threats of
our time. Treatment of an infectious disease caused by MDRO is usually lengthy, expensive, and has significant side effects.
 
Reasons for the increase in MDRO infections include a. the excessive prescription and incorrect use of antibiotics, their use in animal fattening, and a shift in the population composition towards older, immune-weakened people.
 
Especially since the weapon of antibiotics is now threatening to become blunted, the only antidotes left to us today are hygiene and disinfection.
 
•The Cleaning Trolley in Healthcare
In health care facilities, pathogens are carried in by visitors, patients, residents, and staff. The germs are not only distributed through the hands, but also over surfaces and objects. Incorrect cleaning, e.g. B. due to inadequate equipment or incorrectly prepared cleaning utensils can lead to further contamination.
 
Proper cleaning and disinfection are of considerable, often underestimated importance for infection prophylactic reasons. The cleaning services - be it their own employees or external service providers - have the important task of interrupting the path of infection. However, this can only be met if professional equipment and cleaning trolleys that meet hygienic standards are available.
 
•Hygiene in the Rescue Service
Not only medical expertise, but hygienic work also saves lives! Hygiene plays an important role in both emergency rescue and patient transport. So that no pathogens are transmitted from one patient to the next or to you as an employee! You can flexibly integrate the following hygiene training into everyday working life. Off-duty times can be used sensibly to work on the individual chapters. The hygiene test to obtain the certificate is then completed.
 
•Hygiene in Children's Facilities
For community facilities where babies or children are cared for, such as For example, kindergartens, day-care centers, etc., special hygiene requirements apply - especially if the children are ill. As an employee of such a facility, you should be familiar with the hygiene rules so that infectious diseases are not spread.
 
Anyone who comes into professional contact with people, products, objects, or materials in the healthcare or welfare sector is exposed to particular dangers and must be protected.
 
Disinfectants are mainly used in health care facilities as this is a hygienically sensitive area. The disinfectants specific to health care facilities are used, e.g. B. at the
 
1. Hand disinfection
2. Skin/ mucous membrane antisepsis
3. Surface disinfection
4. Instrument disinfection
5. Laundry disinfection