Shaking hands is as dangerous as smoking?

A new scientific report is controversial after calling on doctors to stop shaking hands with patients, citing the reason that this action is as harmful as smoking in public places.

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Researchers from the University of California in Los Angeles, USA (UCLA) claim, although shaking hands is "cultural behavior" that has been around for a long time, but it can spread disease from patients.

"We can draw some similarities between the proposal to eliminate handshake in health care and previous attempts to ban smoking in public places. In recent years, more and more There are many opinions that hands are important as an infectious factor, leading to formal proposals and policies regarding hand hygiene in hospitals and other health facilities, " Research report in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

Shaking hands with patients at a medical facility is said to cause doctors and health workers to cross the pathogen.(Photo: Corbis)

The research team, led by expert Mark Sklansky, points out that the hands of medical workers have been infected with germs from their patients. Despite efforts to limit the spread of disease, the spread of disease in the hands of health care workers is widespread due to regular contact with the environment and patients.

Experts call for a replacement to shake hands with a new gesture. They stated that regulations limiting hand-to-place medical care along with more practical hand hygiene programs could help limit the spread of disease, and therefore reduce burdens. Severe treatment and economics involve hospital infections and antiseptic resistance.

Although acknowledging, the effective development and enforcement of a handshaking ban is expected to require further research to validate and describe the relationship between shaking hands with the spread of pathogens and diseases. ; The application of a new gesture replaces handshaking or widespread public education, but the research team insists that the ban can eventually be recognized as an important way to protect health. of sick people and caregivers.

Therefore, according to experts, being denied a handshake in a hospital or other medical facility should not be judged as a personal humiliation.