Obviously, most people consider that regular cleaning is a greatly effective way to keep your rental home safe during flu season. Although, take note, cleaning just the unmistakable dirt may not be ample 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 gather more harmful bacteria than your toilet.
How dirty are standard handheld devices?
It is very much suggested that you regularly clean your smartphone, tablet, keyboard, mouse, television remote, and gaming controller. For the reason that these electronic devices are touched so often each day, basically phones, controllers, and remotes, they can have ten times the amount of bacteria found on other surfaces in your home!
Take this into careful consideration: when, in fact, you touch something and then touch your phone or computer keyboard, you’ve transferred bacteria from one surface to the other.
The more frequently you touch a particular surface, the more bacteria will collect there, immediately becoming a serious health hazard. Throughout the time of flu season, it’s easy to pick up germs and ,without noticing it, pass them along to others by sharing devices, controllers – even the TV remote. This is what makes cleaning your dirty devices pertinent. If you aren’t cleaning your devices every day or after every use, the chances are certainly high that they might get you or your family sick.
Surfaces you touch every day
Have you ever tried to monitor everything you touch around the house daily? You may be stunned! High-touch surfaces, basically, get a lot of use but, however, may not make it onto your general cleaning lists. As a sample, doorknobs, cabinet handles, window blind controls, and light switches are all touched daily, often many times daily.
If you haven’t wiped these surfaces down with a germ-killing solution, they are quite likely harboring high levels of harmful bacteria. Studies have found these surfaces characteristically contain far more bacteria per square inch than your toilet.
Sanitizing high-touch surfaces in your home is especially relevant throughout flu season. But, actually, these surfaces cannot directly be sprayed with liquid cleaners or disinfectants. Spraying anything on your tech devices will do damage to them. Rather, you can acquire and use wipes designed to clean electronic devices. These wipes conventionally contain alcohol, which kills harmful bacteria.
For other high-touch surfaces around the house, just use a microfiber cloth and spray a disinfectant solution on the cloth, not outrightly on the light switch or doorknob. A commercial cleaning solution that specifically details 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.
Together with high-touch surfaces, the CDC recommends washing your hands frequently and cleaning all surfaces in your home with a disinfectant more appropriate for the type of surface you’re cleaning. Just ensure to have proper ventilation and follow well the label directions regardless of what cleaning agent you decide on. By taking these extra precautions, you can keep your home as germ-free as possible during flu season and all year long.
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Originally Published on November 26, 2021
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