Good Fairy Hygiene Tips
If you are a Good Fairy and need protective gloves for shopping or errands, please contact us.
Advice from our Hygiene Good Fairy
Nurse practitioner advice on hygiene protecting yourself and others for fairies and recipients.
All this information is available online but with the onslaught of covid 19 information, I thought it would be helpful to pull from a few reputable and trustworthy sources.
Most of this is common sense but it bears reminding and attention to the details. Hopefully these simple measures will prevent the spread of infection and death.
Practice good hygiene:
Stop handshaking and elbow bumping – use other non contact methods of greeting. Stay 6 feet apart from those you are helping. Use social distancing.
Clean hands at the front door and schedule regular hand washing in house. Set reminders on your phone if needed.
Create habits and reminders to avoid touching your face and cover coughs and sneezes with your elbow.
Disinfect surfaces like doorknobs, car door handles and steering wheels after errands and drop offs. Remember to wipe down your PHONE.
Use masks and apply social distancing guidelines whenever in the company of other individuals; this includes when shopping, in the car or when visiting someone. Please be sure to ask your Good Fairy partner to do the same.
Information from the CDC:
The best way to prevent illness is to avoid being exposed to this virus.
The virus is thought to spread mainly from person-to-person.
Between people who are in close contact with one another (within about 6 feet).
Through respiratory droplets produced when an infected person coughs or sneezes.
These droplets can land in the mouths or noses of people who are nearby or possibly be inhaled into the lungs.
Note on Driving
On the rare occasions that fairies drive each other, it is advised that both people to wear a mask, the passenger should sit in the rear passenger side and there should be an open window.
Clean your hands often:
Wash your hands often with soap and water for at least 20 seconds especially after you have been in a public place, or after blowing your nose, coughing, or sneezing
If soap and water are not readily available, use a hand sanitizer that contains at least 60% alcohol. Cover all surfaces of your hands and rub them together until they feel dry.
Avoid touching your eyes, nose, and mouth with unwashed hands.
Additional key times to clean hands include:
After using the restroom.
Before eating or preparing food
After contact with animals or pets
Before and after providing routine care for another person who needs assistance (e.g. a child)
Avoid close contact
Avoid close contact with people who are sick
Take steps to protect others
Stay home if you’re sick
Stay home if you are sick, except to get medical care.
If you have gloves, they can be used but also must be used correctly
A How-To Guide for the Removal of Disposable Gloves:
1. Pinch and hold the outside of the glove near the wrist area.
2. Peel downwards, away from the wrist, turning the glove inside out.
3. Pull the glove away until it is removed from the hand and hold the inside-out glove with the gloved hand.
4. With your un-gloved hand, slide your finger/s under the wrist of the remaining glove, taking care not to touch the outside of the glove.
5. Again, peel downwards, away from the wrist, turning the glove inside out.
6. Continue to pull the glove down and over the inside-out glove being held in your gloved hand.
7. This will ensure that both gloves are inside out, one glove enveloped inside the other, with no contaminant on the bare hands.
8. Dispose of contaminated gloves directly into trash can.
If you are vulnerable to illness in any way or may have been exposed to COVID 19, stay home and help out virtually. It is OK to ask for help.