As a healthcare worker, clean hands count. Clean hands prevent the spread of illness in healthcare facilities. Unfortunately, the frequent handwashing and sanitizing needed to achieve this all too often results in painful, cracking, or broken skin on the hands. This raises an important question: what can we do to ensure our hands are clean to protect ourselves and patients, and still have healthy and beautiful hands? As dermatologists, hand dermatitis is one of the most common issues we see. Hand dermatitis often comes with redness, dry skin, itching, burning, blisters, and crusts. It is made worse by wet work:
