(Reuters Health) – Healthcare workers may not be using the right amount of hand sanitizer or letting it dry on their hands long enough to achieve maximum protection against the spread of germs, a recent study suggests. Researchers did lab tests to see how long different amounts of gel and foam versions of alcohol-based hand sanitizer took to dry on nine volunteers’ hands. Researchers also looked at how much hand sanitizer health workers applied in real-world settings and compared how quickly workers thought it dried to actual drying times. Generally, workers thought sanitizer dried much faster than it really did. But health workers might think two pumps of sanitizer is more than they need, the researchers write in the American Journal of Infection Control.

Source: National Post January 30, 2020 19:52 UTC