Simple Cleaning & Sanitizing Your House After Sickness

Sanitize your home after a sickness to avoid passing on germs

There is a new trend in many hospitals nowadays. Today, hospitals worldwide are going gaga over robotic devices, which blast the hardiest microbes and pathogens to kingdom come. Over 100 hospitals in the US have splurged on the devices, amounting to cost $125,000 apiece.

At first glance, it can be judged as costly but it appears to be money well spent. The devices can vanquish viruses and bacteria that do not respond to fastidious ways of disinfecting. These organisms include the ‘superbug’ Clostridium difficile (C-diff), which kills 14,000 people every year in America alone and the similarly resistant norovirus.

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Made by Texan healthcare firm Xenex, the robots work by radiating UV-C light. This is a form of light several times more potent than sunlight, at a fraction of a second. One of these devices can sterilize a room in just 15 minutes and as much as 50 rooms in one day.

Another advantage of the robots is being left to their own devices and perform without human assistance. Hospital workers are advised not to enter a room with an active robot although the device turns off when it detects intrusion.

Having a robot to clean the a sickroom might be possible soon. At this point, you need not rely on Terminator to keep your house scot-free, especially after an illness. You don’t need to afford these systems.

You can follow these 11 simple cleaning and sanitizing steps to prevent bugs from taking permanent residence with you:

Cleaning Tip #1:

Get the next best thing after ultraviolet light: sunlight. Give your furniture, pillows, blankets, mattresses, etc. a bath in the sun to ward off tiny hazardous beings.

Cleaning Tip #2:

Use water with high temperatures when washing an ill person’s beddings, pillowcases and towels. Also use bleach with your whites and color bleach with your darks to rid them of any bacteria.

Cleaning Tip #3:

White vinegar is more than just a kitchen condiment. It is a natural disinfectant that can be made to clean any surface including your toilet bowl. Also, its cleanliness factor will not obliterate good microbes that digest waste materials in the septic tank.

Cleaning Tip #4:

Baking soda is also known to allow these good microbes to proliferate in the septic system. Make sure to sprinkle some baking soda to your toilet bowl every week.

Cleaning Tip #5:

Wipe mirrors and windows using wads of clean newspaper. Wet the paper from a mixture of water and white vinegar.

Cleaning Tip #6:

For a homemade disinfectant, just combine two parts water with one part white vinegar. Combine and pour the mixture in a pump-spray bottle. Use the mixture in the kitchen and bathroom. The mist will easily rid most kitchen and bathroom surfaces of germs.

Cleaning Tip #7:

Another good combination for kitchen and bathroom surfaces is the concoction of tea tree oil, liquid soap, and water. You may also use the spray as a makeshift air-freshener. Lavender, pine or eucalyptus oil works just as effectively. Mix any of these oils with water and denatured alcohol to make an antimicrobial/fungicidal spray.

Cleaning Tip #8:

Both sprays also work on other surfaces like doorknobs, computer keyboards, and other applicable surfaces.

Cleaning Tip #9:

You can also freshen up and disinfect the air by decanting some lavender, pine, eucalyptus, or tea tree oil into the shower rose or the water dispenser while running hot water.

Cleaning Tip #10:

Disinfect the floor with a vacuum cleaner stuffed with cotton balls, which are doused in undiluted tea tree oil.

Cleaning Tip #11:

Immerse toothbrushes in hydrogen peroxide to eliminate stubborn microbes.

By: Sharon Freeman who writes about Cleaning and DIY home projects for companies such as Corporate Cleaning Group