When wearing protective gloves, they should be treated with an antiseptic. Microbiologist and popularizer of science Evgeny Plisov told about this in a commentary to Zvezda. According to the expert, now gloves, and not the skin, come into contact with potentially dangerous surfaces and there is no point in additional processing of the skin of the hands.
“As soon as we start putting on gloves, these gloves become the surface of our hands. With the help of antiseptics, we treat the surface of our hands so that, as a result, these hands do not get into our nose, face, eyes, ears. Therefore, put on gloves - that's it, now these are your hands, they need to be handled,”explained Plisov.
He noted that frequent hand rubbing with alcohol-based hand sanitizers kills the natural microbiome of the skin, which, coupled with winter frosts, leads to dry hands and even cracks.
“They took off their gloves, most likely, no one climbed under them. If you want, you can, of course, treat your hands with alcohol, then put on gloves again, but you need to understand that when you treat your body with alcohol over and over again, then you destroy your skin microbiome, your hands begin to dry, crack, especially in the cold they begin to crack , - said the microbiologist, advising the use of fatty creams for additional moisturizing of the skin of the hands.
Plisov also called the false sense of security that develops in a person when wearing protective gloves harmful. According to the expert, people stop avoiding contact with potentially infected surfaces, after which they can unintentionally touch their face or nose.
