To stop the spread of Covid-19, good hygiene is essential. At home, washing your clothes well is one of the basic precautions to protect yourself from coronavirus. Here are some tips for washing them well!
To limit the spread of the coronavirus and the risks of contamination, it is important to adopt the right actions at home! Among the basic precautions to protect yourself from Covid-19, we find the washing clothes. According to data from the World Health Organization, the virus can indeed persist on surfaces for a few hours to several days. He would stay on average four hours on textiles, hence the need to properly disinfect your laundry. But first of all, here is a little reminder of the hygiene rules to adopt systematically at home:
- Wash your hands regularly
- Air your home
- Wear natural fiber clothing as much as possible
- Always wash clothes before wearing them for the first time, especially for babies
- Clean everything you can at high temperature (over 60 degrees)
- Rotate the washing machine once a month at 90 degrees to prevent bacteria from stagnating in the drum
- Avoid animals staying in the rooms
How to properly disinfect your laundry?
Washing at high temperature, between 45 and 60 ° c, is recommended for removing viruses and bacteria from clothing. According to some experts, the coronavirus would indeed lose its infectious potential from exposure to 56 degrees for twenty to thirty minutes or to 65 degrees for five to ten minutes. However, care should be taken not to mix potentially infected clothing with the rest of the laundry. If you can, try to undress as soon as you get in and start a machine straight away.
Like other textiles, coronavirus can also survive on household linens such as towels or sheets. It is therefore very important to pass them regularly by machine, at least once a week if possible. To remove contaminants and effectively eradicate pathogens, you can add a small amount of bleach to the laundry tub.
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by Helena Ergisi