Is it good to always sterilize your hands with alcohol?

It is not recommended to sanitize your hands with alcohol on a regular basis. Alcohol is used to disinfect, can be used on the surface of objects, the ground, etc., can also be used for hand disinfection. However, it is generally not recommended to often use alcohol to wipe hands, often use alcohol to wipe hands is easy on the skin mucous membrane caused by irritation, resulting in skin sensitivity, long-term rubbing of the skin will also lead to skin dryness, chapped. So it is usually not recommended to often use alcohol to rub hands. For hand hygiene, what needs to be done is to wash hands often with flowing water, wash your hands diligently to achieve general hand hygiene, when in contact with infected items, it is recommended to use alcohol to disinfect, such as the collection of new coronary pneumonia specimens, need to be disinfected. In summary, unless special circumstances generally do not recommend frequent use of alcohol to disinfect hands. Tip: In this article, the terms “neocoronavirus pneumonia” and “new coronavirus pneumonia” were renamed to “new coronavirus infection” on December 26, 2022, as announced by the National Health Commission.