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The world can not quit the bad habits, you may be guilty of every 4 minutes

By Dr White

 

Open this article everyone, where is the hand that does not hold the phone now?

Bet there are a lot of people who are touching their faces!

Humans all over the world can not control the habit of touching the face, and a person touches the face more times a day than you can imagine.

In order to be healthy and reduce the chances of being infected by the outside world, we have various protective measures: washing hands regularly, keeping social distance ......

But there is an important detail that many people may not think of at once, it will greatly increase the risk of being infected, and that is - touch your face with your hands.

The intact skin is an important barrier to protect the body from viruses, and viruses cannot enter the body from the intact skin of our hands.

But for the mucous membrane covered areas, such as the eyes, nose and mouth. If unclean hands touch these areas, the virus can take advantage of the situation and greatly increase our risk of being infected.

But in reality, many people can't do it.

For example: rubbing your eyes


The number of times you touch your face May be much more than you think

Guess how many times an hour a person will touch his face while studying or working?

3 times, 5 times, 10 times?

The reality is much more than many people think.

In a 2008 study conducted at the University of California, Berkeley, researchers used video to observe how often 10 people touched their eyes, nostrils, and lips while typing and found that

The average person touched these areas 15.7 times per hour. On average, the face was touched once every 4 minutes.

Image source: CBC

Why do people love to touch the face?

Touching your face is a habitual action for many people.

The simplest reason is facial discomfort: for example, acne, dry and itchy skin, eye discomfort, wanting to pick your nose, or having something foreign on your face ......

Actions like scratching or rubbing our eyes can many times alleviate our discomfort.

But for some diseases, this does not work. For example, when you have allergies, scratching the area of the rash will make it itchier and itchier, and you can't stop scratching, and it will aggravate the rash.

But another situation may be more common: you are completely unaware that you are touching your face.

People who have nothing obviously uncomfortable also often touch their faces unconsciously, and the reasons behind this are even more complex.

Touching our faces can be body language to express our emotions, relieve anxiety, talk about our opinions, or even just an unconscious behavior and action. Just like some people always involuntarily shake their feet, chew their nails, etc.

In 2014, some German researchers found that: people may actively touch their faces and relieve anxiety when they hear noise.

Selfie is also one of the reasons why some people touch their faces


The harm of touching your face is greater than you think

There are three main possibilities for infection caused by touching the face.

  • Mucosal contact transmission

Many people touch their faces are touching the nasal mucosa and other areas.

  • Wound infections

Microorganisms on the hands can also cause local infection if there are wounds on the skin, acne or scratching the skin when touching the face.

  • Fecal-oral transmission

Some bacteria and viruses can be transmitted through fecal-oral transmission. In addition, novel coronaviruses also have the potential for fecal-oral transmission. If we eat food contaminated with the virus and "eat" the virus, we may also become infected.

Avoid touching your face What can we do?

First of all, we have to be aware of the bad effects of touching our faces and remind ourselves by our own willpower: don't touch your face and restrain it actively.

We can try to find the reason why we touch our face: if there is a skin disease, use the right method to treat it.

We can also find some other small actions that are not so "dangerous" instead of touching the face, such as placing your hands elsewhere. You can also distract yourself by finding something else to do so that your hands are not idle.

Lastly, we have an actionable solution - wash your hands regularly.

Some experts have even recently estimated that by increasing the frequency with which people wash their hands at various airports, the risk of a major global epidemic of infectious disease could be reduced by 24 to 69 percent. Washing your hands with running water and soap can reduce the concentration of disease-causing microorganisms on your hands.

If you can't control how often you touch your face, make your hands cleaner!

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