Health

Alcohol kills bacteria?

07/12/2016

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Wash hands with soap and water is more or less effective than cleaning with alcohol? Know more!

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Alcohol is classified as an intermediate-level disinfectant. This means that it can inactivate vegetative forms of bacteria most viruses and fungi.

For those who opts for the use of alcohol, the alcohol concentration of the product should be 70% to kill bacteria and viruses.

The substance carries out the disinfection and destruction of micro-organisms, pathogenic or not, the vegetative form, present in inanimate objects.

This is an exceptional antiseptic, to contain microbicides characteristics directed to the most frequent micro-organisms and be easy to apply, have low cost and low toxicity.

Alcohol is among the safest antiseptics, not only for its very low toxicity, but also for its effect microbicide quick and easy to apply. Thus, it provides quick antisepsis in procedures such as venipuncture and is exceptional for hand hygiene.

It is necessary to wash your hands often, especially after coughing, sneezing and contact with surfaces where flu viruses can stay alive for up to eight hours. The cleaning is also recommended before eating and after using toilets. "

Attention:

For home use, you must be very careful!

The use of alcohol in household cleaning is a danger, as happens many accidents leading to severe burns and even death. So, to try to reduce the number of domestic accidents Anvisa determined the sale of alcohol only in gel form.

The involvement of the whole society, promoting education and awareness is critical to the prevention of accidents caused by inappropriate use of alcohol in the home environment.

Source: iBahia

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