Without question, most people distinguish that regular cleaning is a practical way to keep your rental home safe during flu season. But, in truth, cleaning just the most obvious dirt may not be quite 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 build up more harmful bacteria than your toilet.
How dirty are standard handheld devices?
It is largely recommended that you regularly clean your smartphone, tablet, keyboard, mouse, television remote, and gaming controller. On the account that 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!
Think of it: if you touch something and then touch your phone or computer keyboard, you’ve transferred bacteria from one surface to the other.
The more frequently you touch a particular surface, the more bacteria will collect there, promptly becoming a serious health hazard. In the course of flu season, it’s easy to pick up germs and inadvertently pass them along to others by sharing devices, controllers – even the TV remote. This is what makes cleaning your dirty devices so essential. If you aren’t cleaning your devices every day or after every use, the chances are, indeed, high that they might get you or your family sick.
Surfaces you touch every day
Have you ever tried to watch closely everything you touch around the house daily? You may be shocked! High-touch surfaces, concretely, get a lot of use but, in actual fact, may not make it onto your general cleaning lists. As an illustration, doorknobs, cabinet handles, window blind controls, and light switches are all touched daily, perhaps even countless times daily.
If you haven’t wiped these surfaces down with a germ-killing solution, they are most likely harboring high levels of harmful bacteria. Studies have discovered these surfaces conventionally contain far more bacteria per square inch than your toilet.
Sanitizing high-touch surfaces in your home is especially salient for the duration of flu season. On the other hand, these surfaces cannot directly be sprayed with liquid cleaners or disinfectants. Spraying anything on your tech devices will most probably damage them. As an alternative, you can take wipes designed to clean electronic devices. These wipes usually contain alcohol, which kills harmful bacteria.
For other high-touch surfaces around the house, take a microfiber cloth and spray a disinfectant solution on the cloth, not actually on the light switch or doorknob. A commercial cleaning solution that specifically details 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.
On top of high-touch surfaces, the CDC recommends washing your hands frequently and cleaning all surfaces in your home with a disinfectant excellent for the type of surface you’re cleaning. Just be attentive to have proper ventilation and conform to the label directions, doesn’t matter what cleaning agent you agree on. By taking these extra precautionary measures, you can keep your home as germ-free as possible during flu season and the whole year.
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