Hi my name is Dr. Uri Burstyn I'm a veterinarian in Vancouver BC and I'd
like to welcome you to my series of practical skills for pet owners
hi everyone Sir Lancelot and I are here to show you how to wash your hands properly a
very important skill in these times but before we get going I'm gonna ask you to like and subscribe
this video please feel free to share it and if you really enjoy my work please join me on patreon and
become supporter so I can keep making more videos like this so just to give you a little idea of my
qualifications I do have an undergraduate degree in microbiology and immunology and I also have a
veterinary medical degree and then I'd be doing surgery a couple days a week for the last 12
years so I've watched on my hands quite a bit and Sir Lancelot here has spent most of his life in
the veterinary hospital so I'd say he's observed more hand washing than just about anybody else on
earth and Louise washes these giant paws very very thoroughly and regularly here we see Lancelot at
his observation post observing activities in the clinic please remember this guide is meant for
people to use at home it is not a demonstration of a medical or surgical scrub this is also a
good time to remind you that you should wash your hands for approximately 20 seconds let me tell you
why before I show you how to wash your hands I want to tell you the most important secret to
effective hand-washing and that secret is contact time what does this mean well it's time that the
soap or detergent or the scrub spends in contact with your skin that determines how well it works
in fact all of these things about moving our hands around and differently to scrubbing is actually 90
percent of that is just giving you something to do while you give the soap adequate contact time
to do its work that's why some people say you have to wash your hands for 30 seconds or sing
a song and also that's all really legitimate memory triggers but just remember what really
matters is not how hard you scrub your hands but the amount of time that the soap spends on them
the first tip is make sure the water is set to warm I have done far too many cold water scrubs
in my time it is miserable so make sure the warm water is set to a pleasant ly warm temperature
make sure you get enough soap you don't have to get a lot
of it but just enough to work up a good lather
and now we come to the technical part of our program so what you want to do here is first
of all let's distribute this soap evenly across your hands get it in between your fingers and
as well as on top other hand on top and don't forget those thumbs now we're gonna clean under
our fingernails or just a quick scrub against the palm or if you have long fingernails you're
gonna have to work each one individually you make sure this so gets right up there a little
spread and we're all lathered up now I usually like to give my hands a little bit of splash
water move that soap around and just repeat the entire pattern again in fast forward mode this
should get you to about 20 seconds then rinse and voila oh but it's not over yet now we got to turn
the water off you can try using your elbow like a surgeon but I prefer to use the knuckles in
my off hand and there you have it clean hands and now you're ready for a nice long bout of
self-isolation where you can just huddle down in your little fort and watch the world go by
while knowing that you are saving lives by eating chips playing video games and watching Netflix
well I hope you found that to be educational and helpful if you'd like to see more videos like this
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making more videos like this and until next time have fun with your pets and I'll see you again