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Improving Hand Hygiene in Kids

I was featured in an article in Entrepreneur about two immigrant women who have designed a new, fun, and creative tool—the SoaPen­—that makes hand washing more fun for kids. It can sometimes be hard to motivate children to wash their hands, much less wash them effectively using both warm water and soap. With SoaPen, children draw on their hands with the colorful soap inside the tube which they then scrub between their hands and rinse to erase. By adding a creative and fun element to handwashing, SoaPen, can be a useful tool in helping children adopt better hand hygiene.

To read my input and learn more about the story and women behind SoaPen, check out the article in Entrepreneur. If you want to read more about kids and handwashing you can check out this article on The Week where I talk more in depth on the topic.

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Everything posted is my opinion and doesn’t represent the opinion of my current or prior employer. All patient references in stories are fictionalized (new gender, different issue, etc) to protect privacy. Recommendations are made in a generic way intended for education. The ideas I have may not fit every child or every family. Parents should use their judgment and ask their own doctors if they feel something doesn’t make sense or may not be safe in their specific situation. I am not your child’s doctor, and this is not medical advice.

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