How To Use Your UV Sanitizer Wand
One of the most futuristic and unlikely tools in fighting germs to be developed recently is the UV sanitizer wand, a science fiction inspired device that claims to eliminate 99% of germs and bacteria with just a wave of the hand, but is it really true? Will just waving some bright blue light make the bed bugs and germs go away? To some extent, yes. You can actually use ultraviolet light to kill microbes like germs, bacteria and fungus, and even bigger things like bed bugs. This is because certain ultraviolet light radiation is actually harmful and will corrupt or destroy DNA, acting like a cleansing fire to remove all germs that stand in your way. If used properly, that is.
Simply waving your UV sanitizer wand at your kitchen counter or sheets is not going to purify them, unfortunately. The catch to using ultraviolet light to sanitize is that, as the name suggests, it is light. Light needs to be able to penetrate every inch of the surface in order to kill all of the germs, so porous surfaces like wood or cloth with offer tiny hiding places for other germs while the ones on the surface get zapped by the wand. Yet on a completely smooth object like glass, plastic, granite and so forth the wand will work extremely well and will in fact kill a large number of germs. Yet there is still a second catch: it takes time to kill the microbes, and even more time to kill something like a bed bug. In fact, every single inch of the surface you are purifying needs to be exposed to UV light for between 10 seconds and more than a minute from no more than 2 inches away, making using a UV wand a slow process.
However it is a worthwhile process when used in the right settings. It is very difficult to use traditional methods to clean electronic equipment like a laptop keyboard or your smart phone without destroying the item in question. This is when using ultraviolet light comes particularly handy. The same can be said about purifying polluted water, and in fact ultraviolet light has been used as a water filter for quite some time already. So, although the process is kind of tricky to use correctly, the claims that most ads make about being 99% effective are somewhat true. If you use your uv wand properly you will kill the majority of germs on a smooth surface.