We Care about your health so let's talk about PERSONAL HYGIENE

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Today's topic is basically to describe what we all understand by the phrase ' Personal Hygiene', as well as it's causes, health hazards for victims and preferred solutions.

Its an entire good idea and notion to keep the body or any part of the body in an hygiene state, irrespective of where the part is situated. Though it may be private (i.e lowering hairs in the private part, armpit, in relation to the mouth and sometimes the nose) or public ( regular taking of bath, nails as well as the hairs).

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To kick start, lets attempt to define what the topic is:

WHAT IS PERSONAL HYGIENE?

A compound word from PERSONAL which means 'someone related to oneself or inclusively oneself ' and HYGIENE connote 'being in a good, clean and healthy condition'.
So, PERSONAL HYGIENE can be defined as a principle of maintaining body cleanliness as well as grooming the whole body, its no longer a news that the best way to keep the body from illness is by good personal hygiene.
Though bathing as a means of personal hygiene may be exceptional to some cultures, though they know how there hygiene are being run to avoid odour.

CAUSES OF POOR PERSONAL HYGIENE?

Poor personal hygiene is becoming more intense nowadays especially in the underdeveloped countries of the world.

1. Irregular taking of bath: This is still the most intense of all causes of poor hygiene, not taking of bath after a stressful daily work will eventually leads to smelling body and blocking of the pore spaces on skin by sweat.
2. Keeping of hair: This results as a matter of non challant attitudes within the youth of today by the virtue of keeping their hair (old school hair) without treating, as some cannot even raise their armpit.
3. Keeping of nails: Nail keeping may eventually keep germs within the hand vicinity which may affect its health status.
4. Also, improper brushing of teeth.

EFFECT OF POOR HYGIENE?

1. Body Odour
2. Bad breath
3. Illness
4. Psychological distress e.t.c

REASONS FOR PERSONAL HYGIENE

1. Disease Prevention : Sanitizing or washing of the hands before handling food or eating to avoid germ infection.
2. Social Abduction : An odour- free body may have a kind of social acceptance from/by families, friends, peers e.t.c
3. Pain relief or prevention.
4. Low health cost.
5. Sex appeal.
6. Nice smile.
7. Hair dandruff prevention.

PREVENTIONS OF POOR HYGIENE

• Mandate and proper taking of bath.
• Cutting of nails ( at least once in a week)
• Sanitizing and Washing of hands after leaving toilet.
• Cutting of all hairs across the body.
• Wearing clean and neat outfits.

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