Acrylic Nails And Infection Control

Conclusive evidence is needed.

Acrylic nails and infection control. Clin Infect Dis 2001 Feb 1. Goal 7 Reduce the risk of health care-associated infection. Murphy PhD d Lindsay Helget.

The google scholar search yielded eight articles and PubMed yielded 12 articles. Evaluation of the bacterial burden of gel nails standard nail polish and natural nails on the hands of health care workers. There is debate whether artificial nails are putting patients at risk of nosocomial infections.

Both nail polish and plastic or acrylic nails can trap moisture and fungi. After handwashing there were higher numbers of colony-forming units of gram-negative. 7A Comply with current Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC hand hygiene guidelines.

The hard gel and the soft gel. Methacrylates can trigger asthma and high concentrations may cause central nervous system depression. A Zuger reviewing Parry MF et al.

Some of the articles had to be obtained from the Mary. This chemical is very drying to your real nails. American Journal of Infection Control.

Although health care workers are following fashion trends when they wear artificial nails the implications of these nails for infection control is unknown. In study 2 the microbial flora of the nails of 30 HCWs who wore permanent acrylic artificial nails were compared with that of control HCWs who had native nails. Nail polish and infection control.