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Good Hygiene Practice. For this task I have been asked to identify basic hygiene principles in a childcare setting. These include principles of cross-infection, disposal of waste, food handling, handling body fluids, the issues concerning the spread of HIV and hepatitis and encouraging good hygiene practise in children. What is cross infection? Cross infection is an infection spread from one organism to another because of a poor barrier protection. It is a common and important mode of infection with many varieties of organisms, including bacterial diseases, viral hepatitis A and some other faecal-oral infections, such as scabies, fungus infection, pinworms, and roundworms. Cross infection can occur in day-care centres, schools, nursery's, prisons and other settings where individuals and groups interact with one another. Cross infection is a potential problem in all-institutional settings. Infections can come from touching dirty soil which wild animals have left faeces of some type. Insects are another way of...

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