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Clean and Disinfect Your Home 

When and How to Clean and Disinfect Your Home:

Cleaning surfaces in your home on a regular basis helps stop the spread of pathogens like norovirus, Shigella, and Giardia that can make you sick. Cleaning surfaces in your home helps you and your family stay healthy by getting rid of germs, dirt, and other impurities. Unless there are sick people in your home, sanitizing or disinfecting is probably not necessary to prevent the spread of disease there.

Cleaning, Sanitizing, and Disinfection Definition:

 Cleaning: cleans surfaces of the majority of germs, dirt, and impurities. Use water, soap, and scrubbing to clean.

Sanitizing: reduces germs to levels that are safe according to public health codes or regulations. Weaker bleach solutions or sanitizing sprays are used for sanitizing. You should clean surfaces before sanitizing them.

Disinfecting: most germs on surfaces and items are killed. Stronger bleach solutions or other chemicals are used for disinfecting. Before you disinfect surfaces, clean them. 

Clean frequently and thoroughly first:

• To ensure that you get rid of the majority of germs from surfaces in your home, cleaning is a crucial first step. Cleaning surfaces in your home with products that contain soap or detergent will get rid of dirt and germs and lower the risk of infection. Most dangerous viruses or bacteria can be removed from surfaces by cleaning alone. Prior to applying sanitizers or disinfectants, surfaces should be cleaned because contaminants like dirt may make it more difficult for the chemicals to penetrate and eradicate germs. After cleaning, sanitizing helps to reduce the number of germs on surfaces.
• Viruses and bacteria that have remained on surfaces after cleaning can be killed by disinfecting. Disinfecting a surface after cleaning it reduces the risk of disease transmission even further. However, unless someone in your home is ill or a sick person has recently visited, you most likely do not need to sanitize or disinfect for general cleaning.

Always remember to clean before sanitizing or disinfecting, if necessary.

When Should You Clean Your Home's Surfaces?

1. ·        Clean high-touch areas of your home frequently and after guests have visited, such as light            switches, doorknobs, and countertops.
2. ·       When they are obviously dirty or as needed, clean other surfaces in your house. If there are            susceptible family members, such as young children and those with compromised immune            systems, clean them more frequently. Another option is to disinfect.
3. ·       Utilized a product appropriate for each surface, cleaning surfaces as directed on the product          label.

For surfaces that are hard, like counters, some toys, light switches, and floors:

·        Surfaces should be cleaned with soap and water or cleaning agents designed for that surface.

When it comes to soft surfaces like carpet, rugs, and drapes:

1.           Use cleaning agents designed for these surfaces to clean the area.
2.            If at all possible, wash the items as directed by the manufacturer. Use the warmest water setting possible, and thoroughly dry all items.
3.           Surfaces should be vacuumed, and any dirt should be safely disposed of.

For laundry-related items like clothing, linens, towels, and cloth toys:

• Use detergent and the recommended water temperature when doing laundry.
•  Completely dry the items.
•  It's okay to wash a sick person's dirty clothes in the same load as other people's.
• Clean laundry baskets or a hamper in accordance with the instructions for the surface.
• After handling soiled laundry, wash your hands.

Regarding gadgets with touch screens, keyboards, keyboard input devices, and smartphones and tablets:

•        Consider covering electronics with a wipeable material to make cleaning and disinfecting simpler.
•     Observe the cleaning instructions and suggestions provided by the manufacturer.

When Should You Sanitize Your Home?

• After they have been cleaned, some surfaces and items in your home might need to be sanitized.
• Sanitize toys, play areas, and other items that a baby or child might use, such as nursing bottles. 
• After a crisis or natural disaster (such as flooding), sanitize the areas that come into contact with food.
•  If you have a food item that has been recalled, you might want to clean the inside of your refrigerator.
•  You may want to clean the inside of your refrigerator if you have a recalled food     product.

How to Safely Sanitize?

It might not be necessary to sanitize every day if surfaces and objects are cleaned thoroughly after use. Use a weaker bleach solution or an EPA-registered sanitizing spray to sanitize a surface or object.

Nonporous objects, like some toys and baby feeding supplies,

• Boil, steam, or use a weaker bleach solution to sanitize objects. To find out which technique to use, speak with the product's manufacturer. For some items, a dishwasher with a sanitizing cycle can be used.
• After cleaning, set the objects on a clean, unused dish towel or paper towel and let them air dry completely before putting them away or using them.
• Avoid rubbing or patting items dry with a dish towel as doing so could spread germs.

When to Clean Up?

When someone is ill or is more susceptible to contracting an illness due to a compromised immune system (such as those receiving immune-suppressing medication for cancer, organ transplants, or other illnesses, or those with HIV or immune-compromising genetic conditions), disinfect your home in addition to cleaning it.

How to Safely Disinfect?

First, use soap and water to clean the surface. To ensure that a product can be used on the specific type of surface you are disinfecting (such as a hard or soft surface), always read the label.

When using chemical disinfectants, remember to abide by these crucial safety precautions:

·         To ensure safe and efficient use as well as safe disposal, always read and abide by the instructions on the label of disinfecting products.

•          To guard against potential splashes, put on the recommended protective gear (such as gloves         or goggles).
•          Give the disinfectant enough time to kill the germs on the surface. The term "contact time"           refers to this. The directions include the contact time. To ensure that germs are eliminated, the       surface must remain wet throughout the entire contact period.
•          When using products indoors, make sure there is adequate ventilation (for instance, use a fan       or open the windows and doors to let fresh air in).
•          If the product needs to be diluted with water, use room temperature water (unless the label             specifies otherwise).
•          Diluted cleaning or disinfectant solutions should be labelled.
•          Keep chemicals away from children and pets when using and storing them.
•          Never combine different products or chemicals.
•          Avoid applying disinfection products directly to your skin, eating, drinking, breathing them           in, or injecting them into your body. These goods may seriously harm consumers.
•          Pets shouldn't be cleaned with disinfection products or given baths.
•          Wash your hands with soap and water for 20 seconds right away after disinfecting.