Just finished reading this. Written in a unique format that makes it easy to read, yet heavy with emotions. A book filled with book recommendations. #TheCorrespondent
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Most people wash their hands, yet one of the most contaminated parts is often missed.
There is a reason surgeons, food handlers, and healthcare workers are discouraged from wearing long or artificial nails. While soap and water easily clean the skin, they struggle to reach the narrow pocket beneath the nail edge, known as the subungual space. This area is warm, damp, and shielded from friction, conditions that allow microbes to survive far longer than on exposed skin.
Everyday activities like typing, touching surfaces, scratching the skin, or handling food push tiny particles of dirt, oil, and bacteria into this hidden space. Studies have shown that fingernails consistently carry higher bacterial counts than surrounding skin, and that organisms such as Staphylococcus, E. coli, and other pathogens are commonly found beneath nails, especially when they are long.
When nails extend past the fingertip, the protected space underneath becomes larger and harder to clean. Even proper handwashing may leave bacteria behind unless the nails are scrubbed. This is why nail brushes are used in medical and food-service settings.
Artificial nails add another layer of risk. Acrylics and gels do not flex the same way natural nails do, allowing microscopic gaps to form between the nail and the enhancement. Moisture and microbes can collect in these spaces, encouraging the growth of bacteria and yeast, including Candida. Research in hospitals has found that workers wearing artificial nails often carry more pathogens on their hands than those with short, natural nails.
These microbes do not stay put. They transfer easily to food, eyes, mouths, wounds, and other people. Keeping nails short and cleaning underneath them properly is one of the simplest ways to reduce the spread of germs, even when hands appear clean.
Oh my God! This is phenomenally effective communication! Fantastic narrative device with the right amount of exaggeration that lands the message with a bang, while also sending chills down the spine of the target audience (parents of young children)! Excellent work by the Irish agency Core Creative.
#advertising #creativity
Paleontologist Dr Henry Loomis reflecting on humans: "When the Earth gets tired of us, believe me it will shake us off like a summer cold."
#JurassicWorldRebirth
SHE Team Ahmedabad City:
અમદાવાદ શહેરમા માયનોર બાળકોને ભીખ માંગવા મજબૂર કરતા ઈસમો વિરૂદ્ધ ક્રાઇમ બ્રાંચની ડ્રાઇવ દરમ્યાન જાહેર જગ્યાઓ પરથી કુલ- ૧૮ બાળકોને ભિક્ષાવૃત્તીમાથી પોલીસ સ્ટેશનોની SHE Team દ્વારા રેસ્કયુ કરાયા.
#AhmedabadPolice
Hot take. I don’t consider this fear mongering. I consider this reality. Women are so rarely honest about what motherhood and raising children is like so we sell ourselves this fantasy and then end up depressed cause it’s not what we expected. Good. I’m glad we’re being honest