Clearly, most people know that regular cleaning is the best means to keep your rental home safe during flu season. But, in actuality, cleaning just the clear dirt may not be good enough. Doorknobs, light switches, computer keyboards, smartphones, tablets, television remotes, and game controllers are easy to miss when cleaning the house. If you are not sanitizing them regularly, they may contain more harmful bacteria than your toilet.
How dirty are standard handheld devices?
It is seriously recommended that you regularly clean your smartphone, tablet, keyboard, mouse, television remote, and gaming controller. Taking into account these electronic devices are touched so often each day, namely phones, controllers, and remotes, they can have ten times the amount of bacteria found on other surfaces in your home!
Take this into consideration: whenever you touch something and then touch your phone or computer keyboard, you’ve transferred bacteria from one surface to the other. The more repeatedly you touch a particular surface, the more bacteria will collect there, immediately becoming a serious health hazard. During the time of flu season, it’s easy to pick up germs and accidentally pass them along to others by sharing devices, controllers – even the TV remote. This is what makes cleaning your dirty devices so relevant. If you aren’t cleaning your devices every day or after every use, the chances are certainly high that they might get you or your family sick.
Surfaces you touch every day
Have you ever tried to keep close tabs on everything you touch around the house daily? You may be simply surprised! High-touch surfaces, definitely get a lot of use but, in fact, may not make it onto your general cleaning lists. By way of illustration, doorknobs, cabinet handles, window blind controls, and light switches are all touched daily, and every so often, several times daily.
If you haven’t wiped these surfaces down with a germ-killing solution, they are in all probability harboring high levels of harmful bacteria. Studies have found these surfaces nornally contain far more bacteria per square inch than your toilet.
Sanitizing high-touch surfaces in your home is especially substantial within the period of flu season. Yet these surfaces cannot actually be sprayed with liquid cleaners or disinfectants. Spraying anything on your tech devices will certainly ruin them. Contrary to that, you can simply use wipes designed to clean electronic devices. These wipes often contain alcohol, which kills harmful bacteria.
For other high-touch surfaces around the house, utilize a microfiber cloth and spray a disinfectant solution on the cloth, not squarely on the light switch or doorknob. A commercial cleaning solution that specifically denotes it will kill bacteria will work for your home’s plastic or other durable surfaces. Just don’t use harsh chemicals on painted surfaces, wood, or natural stone, as the chemicals will damage these areas.
Apart from high-touch surfaces, the CDC recommends washing your hands frequently and cleaning all surfaces in your home with a disinfectant ideal for the type of surface you’re cleaning. Just be attentive careful to have proper ventilation and heed the label directions, no matter what cleaning agent you prefer. By taking these extra considerations, you can keep your home as germ-free as possible during flu season and all year.
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