Keeping Your Hands Clean on a Cruise
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To stay healthy and clean, wash your hands with warm water and soap.
When to wash your hands:
Before:
- Touching your hand to your mouth, including:
- Eating and drinking,
- Smoking, and
- Brushing your teeth.
- Helping a sick person.
After:
- Going to the bathroom.
- Changing diapers.
- Touching high-hand contact surfaces, such as:
- Door knobs,
- Elevator buttons, and
- Railings.
- Returning to your cabin.
- Helping a sick person.
- Blowing your nose.
How to wash your hands:
- Wet your hands with warm water.
- Apply a generous amount of soap.
- Rub your hands together for 20 seconds.
- Rinse your hands.
- Dry your hands with a paper towel.
- Use the paper towel to turn off the faucet and open the door.
What about alcohol-based hand sanitizers?
- CDC recommends that cruise ship passengers use warm water and soap to wash their hands. Washing is always best.
- If water and soap are NOT available (perhaps on excursions), use an ethanol alcohol-based hand sanitizer, preferably in a gel form. The sanitizer should be at least 60% ethanol.
- Page last reviewed: June 17, 2013
- Page last updated: January 16, 2014
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