When you’re sick, the best course of action is to stay home until you’re feeling better. However, when you’re stuck at home and sick, especially if you’re in a home with many other people or something like a senior living facility, all of those sick germs are going to permeate the space. So once you’re feeling better, it’s wise to do a clean sweep of the entire space so that you can get rid of those germs.
To help you learn the best way to go about doing this, here are three tips for cleaning your home after being sick.
Open The Windows
Once you start feeling better and you’re ready to really start cleaning up after a sickness, one of the first things you should do is open the windows up and get some fresh air inside.
Even if the weather outside isn’t great, being able to open the windows and replace some of the stale, sick air with fresh air from outside can do you a world of good. It can help to reduce the risk of you getting re-exposed to the germs that have been living in your space as well as preparing your home for the cleaning that you’re about to get to. This way, when you’ve got your home cleaned as you’d like it, you don’t have to worry so much about the air you’re breathing.
Disinfect High-Touch Areas
When you’re sick in your home, you may not be too worried about what you’re touching and how you’re spreading your germs. But once you start to feel better, or if you have people in your home that you’re trying not to get sick, it’s important that you disinfect certain high-touch areas that everyone will be using.
Think about what parts of your home you use a lot or touch frequently when you’re sick. This likely includes things like the bathroom and kitchen sinks, your personal electronic devices, TV remotes, door knobs, light switches, and railings or handrails. Once you’ve located these high-touch areas, sanitize these surfaces to kill the germs and bacteria that might be taking up residence there.
Wash Your Linens
When people are feeling sick, they often just want to curl up at home with their pillows and blankets. But just as you can spread your sick germs to hard surfaces around your home, you can also have germs on your linens as well.
Depending on the kind of sickness you’ve been dealing with, you might want to wash your linens, at least your pillowcases and hand towels, daily. But for your other linens, like your sheets and blankets or even stuffed animals that were kept close, should be washed once you start to feel better to keep germs from spreading.
If you’re feeling better now that you’ve been sick for a few days, consider using the tips mentioned above to help you know how to best clean and disinfect your home.
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