Hand Hygiene

Skin Care and Protection

Avoid skin damage with gentle care

Skin care maintains the protective mechanism of the skin

Healthy skin is a basic requirement for your profession. Gentle skin care and conscientious skin protection are therefore important components of occupational safety. They keep the consequences of frequent hand washing and working in humid conditions to a minimum and keep your skin healthy. Healthy skin is also a prerequisite for infection protection, because if the skin of the hands is damaged, hand disinfection is less effective. In addition, pathogens can settle more easily and be transmitted to your patients.

What you should know about skin care and skin protection.

Skin protection/care/cleansing

In a broader sense, all measures to keep the skin healthy, because a healthy skin is the best protection against damaging influences. Skin protection is based on 3 components...

Spray or wipe disinfection in skin antisepsis

Punctures and injections, which rank among the most frequent invasive measures in health care, penetrate the skin’s natural protective measure, allowing microorganisms on the skin to enter deeper skin layers...

Washing of the hands (handwashing)

Mainly to remove visible soils and – only to a small extent – to reduce microbial colonisation of the skin (e.g. in case of contamination with spores of C. difficile). Handwashing is far less indicated than generally believed. Hence...

Skin compatibility of hand disinfectants

Generally, hand disinfectants based on alcohols possess good skin tolerability. A burning sensation and reddened skin upon contact with alcohol-based hand disinfectants are signs of pre-damaged skin. In these cases, the alcohol can...

Occlusion effect

The occlusion effect (Latin: occludere, pp. occlusus = to close up, shut up) occurs when the emission of sweat or heat through the skin is blocked – particularly when the recommended wearing time of protective gloves...

Knowledge Database

The A-to-Z database provides information on each pathogen, the most common infections that it triggers, its main transmission paths and recommendations on disinfection. In the glossary, you will find explanations of infection control terms. Search now!

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