Coronavirus what physicians and dentists know about washing their hands that patients and the public should know.
Hello, this is Dr. Donald Fox in Fort Lauderdale beach, Florida.
I received the American Cancer Society Award for the highest scores on pathology examinations over a two-year period. I also received the Southeastern Board of Prosthodontics Award for outstanding achievements, contributions, and performance in prosthodontics (false teeth). I was recognized for my research with oral surgeon Dr. Robert Campbell on patients who experienced numbness in their lower lip and chin after jaw surgery, wisdom teeth extractions, and broken jaws. For this, I was awarded the American Dental Society of Anesthesiology Award.More credentials can be found here >.
The more you wash your hands during the day, the better you'll be. And finding this coronavirus many questions I'm asked are, do I use warm water, hot water, or cold water? And my hands are getting so dry. They hurt from washing them all the time and what soaps should I use and what's the best technique to wash my hands over 31 years ago in my training, I was surprised to find out it's best to use cold water to wash your hands, warm or hot water opens the pores to your skin and allows the viruses and the bacteria to enter into your body. Also, warm or hot water takes the essential oils out of your hands and causes dry skin faster.
As them getting dried out, you can use a hand cream of any sort like the one I have here, which is from Burt Bees and you spread it all over your hands like this and be sure that you work it in all the way because then I put on gloves over my hands so that I don't have to wash them as often during the day. It's easier to wash my gloves than it is to continue washing my hands because my hands were getting too dried out on my hands and started to hurt, especially on the back sides here. If I'm in the office seeing emergency patients, I change my gloves and then wash my hands in between every patient and then I do the same routine and put new gloves on. As far as what soaps to use, hospital and dentist offices, we use use a aide, septic or sterilization soaps.
But with the Coronavirus, the outside of the virus has a fat outer skin that the covers the virus. So this fat breaks down easily with most soap. So soaps aren't that particular. But if I use a soap from whole foods, which comes in like a little square here and it's very gentle and doesn't have any perfumes or sense, that's works very good because you're not allergic to it. Then if I've touched something that I know is very dirty, then I use a foam soap that I get from target and you have to have this dispenser along with this particular, from this um, target because the phone needs to get inside your fingernails right around the corners and right where the skin meets the nails. And more importantly, right here on the knuckles here and here where there's wrinkles. Most of the dentists in the country were on a lecture last week and we're showing the dentist who washed his hands and looked like he did a very good job, but before he washed his hands, they put on this very invisible liquid that when it was placed on his hands and after he washed his hands, they use an ultraviolent blue light that showed anywhere.
He did not wash his hands and all along where the skin meets the nails and on the knuckles on the top of these knuckles here and here, they didn't get all that liquid off. So, um, those, the viruses and bacterias can get in there. So you need to wash fully. Women watching this video may not like what I have to say, but 30 years ago there was a research done in dentistry that we took proactive measures and one of them was that men and women should not have their nails very long and they should only be a one eight and showed that white part that sticking out above the rest of the nail. In other words, the nails are cut very, very short. This allows to get the bacteria and viruses and back at that time the AIDS virus from underneath the fingernails. If you have long painted nails that isn't good.
Also, research also showed that veneer nails, and you can look this up on Google, were not allowed because of having dirty viruses and bacteria hiding under these veneer nails and are highly recommend that you remove your veneer nails at this point in what we're going through and cut your finger down and fingernails down very short so that you don't pass the bars onto other people or to yourself. Put the bars in your mouth, nose or eyes. Another key technique is always wash your face with bar soap above your eyebrows and on the sides and on the front of your face. So you get into the habit of washing your face first and then you wash your hands using the foam soap. So I use the bar soap on my face and then you use the phone soap in the knuckles and the foam gets all around in the nails here.
And if you have a little toothbrush, you can even scrub around the little nails a little bit and what you end up doing is pretty much like a equivalent to like the surgeons do when they're getting ready to go into surgery. You hear them talking about that they're getting ready to scrub up for surgery but you're going to be using a toothbrush. Then I use Burt's bees baby shampoo to wash my eyebrows, my eyelids and eyelashes. Yes. If you haven't figured it out by now, I don't recommend women to be putting on a lot of makeup at this time because if you do your face, wash it and wash around your eyes with the baby shampoo, um, you'll keep your face and wash. But with the makeup on you have to keep putting the makeup back on even though it's baby shampoo when you use it.
I do not recommend washing your eyeballs. Don't get that carried away cause it's too much and it's just going to hurt because I wear eye contacts, I use saline solution and flood my eyeballs. I open my eyelids apart like this and I flush my eyes out with saline solution before I put my contacts in and it makes it feel better in the morning when I do that. Also, don't forget to wash your face before you put your mask on so you don't contaminate the inside of your mask, especially if you're having to reuse your mask. Your mass can also be sprayed on the outside with Lysol without drenching it so that you do at about 12 inches away. Here's your mask and here's the spray so that the coronavirus is killed on the outside, the mask when you're going to reuse it because many of us don't have many mass and you end up touching it again later on.
I highly recommend also that doctors and nurses that only have one mass per day or they have to reuse a mask over and over for a week or a surgical mass over and over for a day, and that's, that's true. They only get one per day is to put a towel first over the outside of the mask and then you then put the mask on with the paper towel on the outside and tuck it in around the edges. If you get it tight against your face, you can trim the inside of it with some scissors so that you're not only having the paper towel on the outside so that when you take your mask off, you throw the paper towel away that has the coronavirus on it and then you put a new paper towel on. When you go to put the same mask back on again, this is a lot more hygienic and not worry about all the splatter or spit that somehow is in the air.
If you're working on a dental patient, if you're a dentist or if you're an emergency room physician and you get some sort of a blood splatter or any moisture on the outside of the mass and then you, it's hard for you to reuse that mask and you'll feel a lot safer. You can even take dental paper bibs that dentists we use on the patient's chest and one side of the paper has plastic and one side has a the plastic on it and then what you do is you put the paper side outward. This will not allow any blood or spit to seep through and get on the and on the outer part of your surgical mass or you're in n95 mask. This would be an awesome technique under the circumstances until we get enough surgical mass and in n95 mask for all of our healthcare workers, which may still be four to eight weeks from now.
This is now April the fifth that I'm doing this video. I hope this helped again, go to really straight white teeth.com to see previous videos on how to get the coronavirus out of your mouth, nose and throat videos. Another one, how to make a paper towel in a matter of three to four minutes and also how not to overdose with Tylenol or Acetaminophen while drinking alcohol with the flu or with the coronavirus. It only takes a little bit of Tylenol to overdose. Very dangerous.
Stay healthy. Dr. Donald Fox in Fort Lauderdale beach, Florida. Thank you.