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Handout 2 – Infection control
This handout must include:
A description of the different routes by which infection can get into the body.
An explanation of:
a. Prevention methods including hand washing, the care workers and others’ personal hygiene.
b. The social care workers role in supporting others to promote best practice in infection control.
An evaluation of:
a. Different types of personal protective equipment (PPE).
b. How using PPE can help to prevent the spread infection.
When harmful microbes, or germs, enter the body, they multiply and cause disease. This is called infection. Your body's defences usually do a killer job of squelching harmful microbes. But sometimes germs multiply faster than the body can handle -- and you get sick. People come in contact with germs in many ways, including:
* Contaminated blood: Harmful microbes can enter your body through your bloodstream.
* Infected food or water: Dangerous microbes can enter through your mouth if you drink untreated water or swallow food that's uncooked or unwashed.
* Disease-carrying creatures: Harmful microbes can enter your body through close contact with infected creatures.
* Germy air: Dangerous microbes can spread through the air and enter your nose and mouth when you breathe.
Food and water - Food is almost never packaged the way it’s supposed to and even in factors the infections in the air get onto that and you consume it. With water that’s a different story. Water is either in a tower or ungrounded (well). Neither is really good. A tower means it’s all condensed and it’s still outside. Air can sneak through cracks and get in there. That speaks for its self.
Skin - As I said air can sneak through anywhere. So if someone sick where to sneeze right on your arm there is a HUGE chance you can get that same cold. All the little holes in your arm and such let things pass through it making it easier for infection to get into your body and skin to live and survive. The person you
This handout must include:
A description of the different routes by which infection can get into the body.
An explanation of:
a. Prevention methods including hand washing, the care workers and others’ personal hygiene.
b. The social care workers role in supporting others to promote best practice in infection control.
An evaluation of:
a. Different types of personal protective equipment (PPE).
b. How using PPE can help to prevent the spread infection.
When harmful microbes, or germs, enter the body, they multiply and cause disease. This is called infection. Your body's defences usually do a killer job of squelching harmful microbes. But sometimes germs multiply faster than the body can handle -- and you get sick. People come in contact with germs in many ways, including:
* Contaminated blood: Harmful microbes can enter your body through your bloodstream.
* Infected food or water: Dangerous microbes can enter through your mouth if you drink untreated water or swallow food that's uncooked or unwashed.
* Disease-carrying creatures: Harmful microbes can enter your body through close contact with infected creatures.
* Germy air: Dangerous microbes can spread through the air and enter your nose and mouth when you breathe.
Food and water - Food is almost never packaged the way it’s supposed to and even in factors the infections in the air get onto that and you consume it. With water that’s a different story. Water is either in a tower or ungrounded (well). Neither is really good. A tower means it’s all condensed and it’s still outside. Air can sneak through cracks and get in there. That speaks for its self.
Skin - As I said air can sneak through anywhere. So if someone sick where to sneeze right on your arm there is a HUGE chance you can get that same cold. All the little holes in your arm and such let things pass through it making it easier for infection to get into your body and skin to live and survive. The person you