著者

赤江 尚子 吉井 美穂 笹原 志央里 山口 容子 澤田 陽子 金森 昌彦 西谷 美幸

出版者

富山大学看護学会編集委員会

雑誌

富山大学看護学会誌 (ISSN:1882191X)

巻号頁・発行日

vol.12, no.1, pp.37-45, 2012-06

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Hand roughness is a problem for medical practitioners who frequently wash their hands.It is currently recommended that hand care preparations are provided to medical practitioners, but the effect or influence when such preparations are used together with antiseptics has not been investigated. In this study, we investigated how drying hand care preparations affect the sterilizing effect of antiseptics.Staphylococcus epidermidis (S. epidermidis) and Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) were used as the test strains. The trial medications used were a skin protective agent.As a result, the sterilizing effect after the hand care preparation had dried for 30 minutes was better against S. aureus than S. epidermidis. The present results showed that hand care preparations do not affect bacterial proliferation, that when using hand care preparation and antiseptics together. Moreover, the hand care preparation needs to be dried sufficiently.In the future, comparisons with the present results and further research conducted with consideration of the conditions of the hand care preparation will be needed.