The majority of people realize that regular cleaning is the correct way to keep your rental home safe during flu season. Yet cleaning just the undisguised dirt may not be fully 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 acquire more harmful bacteria than your toilet.
How dirty are standard handheld devices?
It is very much recommended that you regularly clean your smartphone, tablet, keyboard, mouse, television remote, and gaming controller. Cause these electronic devices are touched so often each day, above all phones, controllers, and remotes, they can have ten times the amount of bacteria found on other surfaces in your home!
Look at it carefully: once you touch something and then touch your phone or computer keyboard, you’ve transferred bacteria from one surface to the other.
The more recurrently you touch a particular surface, the more bacteria will collect there, swiftly becoming a serious health hazard. Upon 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 essential. If you aren’t cleaning your devices every day or after every use, the chances are that they might get you or your family sick.
Surfaces you touch every day
Have you ever tried to take note of everything you touch around the house daily? You may be surprised! High-touch surfaces, above all, get a lot of use but actually may not make it onto your general cleaning lists. Specifically, doorknobs, cabinet handles, window blind controls, and light switches are all touched daily, often considerable times daily.
If you haven’t wiped these surfaces down with a germ-killing solution, they are, more often than not, harboring high levels of harmful bacteria. Studies have found these surfaces generally contain far more bacteria per square inch than your toilet.
Sanitizing high-touch surfaces in your home is especially significant on flu season. But, in actual fact, these surfaces cannot easily be sprayed with liquid cleaners or disinfectants. Spraying anything on your tech devices will most probably damage them.
As an alternative, you can obtain wipes designed to clean electronic devices. These wipes largely 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 exactly on the light switch or doorknob. A commercial cleaning solution that specifically expresses that 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.
Coupled with high-touch surfaces, the CDC recommends washing your hands frequently and cleaning all surfaces in your home with a disinfectant nice for the type of surface you’re cleaning. Just be regardful to have proper ventilation and be guided by the label directions no matter what cleaning agent you like. By taking these extra safeguards, you can keep your home as germ-free as possible during flu season and for a whole year.
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Originally Published on November 26, 2021
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