Does washing your hands with warm water kill more bacteria?

If you are using the same antibacterial soap, will washing your hands with warm water vs cold water kill more bacteria on your hands?





Thanks! I will choose a best answer too, please provide some evidence or at least state your background info to backup your answer.Does washing your hands with warm water kill more bacteria?
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Properly wash your hands is the best way to prevent the spread of infections, diseases, like colds, hepatitis and harmful bacterias...





1) Wash hands after you use the restroom (no matter where you are), picking up after your pets (or someone else), changing a baby,taking out the trash,coughing/ sneezing,after handle any raw foods.





2) Wash hands before cooking, eating,tending to a baby,elders, or sick people in the home, wash hands before placing contacts either in or taking out of eyes,wash before you apply any medications to any part of the body (yours).





3) Use soap any type as long as you have some cause a friction with the soap don't just rub a tad and rinse this only get a tad of dirt and germs have to rub for a few seconds to get a great results.Use warm water to hot which ever is best for each person. Make sure to scrub Under the finger nails where germs love to sit and waite for a trip into a body any ones they are not choosy...





4) Rinse well with warm water still (know some who use cold HA) dry well with a clean towel or paper towel or air dry,toss out paper or place rest in wah if need be.





There are many many bacterias in the world and more to come I';am sure so washing your hands is a great thing and a good habit to have but you can't wash all the bad away. Over washing can cause dry skin as well.Does washing your hands with warm water kill more bacteria?
yes hot waters kills more bacteria than cold water.


evidence: when a bacteria is expose to cold water the bacteria is mostly unharmed from it because the cold water only cools them down and most bacterias only freeze and can be reactive after they warm back up and order to kill them it would have to be some deep freeze what.


Hot water kills the bacteria because for some strange reason the more heat applied to bacterias the more of them die.


here's a perfect example: if you pee in a pot and boil the pee your pee is now water. to be safe most people drop a purifying pill into it
I agree that if it's hot enough to kill bacteria it's going to burn your hands.





If the water is just a little bit warm, then the bacteria may even benefit from the warmth (think about how much faster food would go bad outside of a refrigerator).
1: Don't use antibacterial soaps.They will do more harm than good.





2: The purpose of soap is to ';loosen'; them germs so you can wash them down the drain.Warm water accompanied with soap and friction from hand washing will wash the germs down the drain.
The temperature increment would make a minor difference. What actually kills the bacteria is the rubbing motion of your hands when soapy under running water. :)
Yes. Soap helps but it's actually the hot water that kills most of the bacteria.
Water hot enough to kill bacteria would burn your hands.





Dont listen to King of Kings, urine must be distilled to get pure water and not because of bacteria, but of the urea and ammonia content. Urine is a mostly sterile liquid
No it would have to be hot a certain degree to kill off bacteria