Have you ever raced into the toilet and raced right out…without washing your hands? Tut! Tut!!Tut!!! Let me tell you why you must never do that again.

• Even if you are neat, not everyone is clean about using the toilet and could have left their mess in places you can touch.

• Faeces, especially, contains a lot of germs, including E. coli, which can make you sick.

• Faecal germs are tiny and invisible, so they can be hiding on the faucet/tap, doorknob, and other bathroom surfaces.

• In the bathroom, you can easily get some germs on your hands and, if you don’t wash up properly, you just might take them with you. Those germs could get into your body and make you sick — like if you eat your lunch with those unwashed hands. Or you could make someone else sick — like if you give a new friend a nice handshake with those germy hands and then she goes and eats her lunch!

• By washing your hands, you rinse away those bathroom germs, protecting yourself and others. In addition to washing your hands, you might want to take some extra precautions when you’re in a public restroom. The fewer surfaces you touch, the better. You can use a paper towel to turn on the faucet/tap and to open the door on your way out.

There are so many ingenious ways the bugs have to get at us. Let’s prevent the ones we have control over.

Have a great day