Maintaining Personal Hygiene
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Maintaining personal hygiene helps us to improve our physical and emotional welfare. Maintaining personal hygiene includes care of skin, nails, hair and mouth. Following points will provide helpful tips on how to maintain and improve personal hygiene.
Personal hygiene can:
- Help a person to keep the skin intact and fight against infection and prevent injuries.
- It also helps to remove skin substances in which bacteria can attack
- Keep you more healthy and promotes good nutrition
- Make you more comfortable and relaxed
- Boost your confidence
Now let us focus on maintaining personal hygiene which can be divided into different parts depending upon the body part.
Body Hygiene
- It is very important to keep face, underarms and private areas clean daily Always take bath with the optimum temperature of water which is not so cool not so hot.
- Use medicated soap and shampoo to clean the body
- After bathing, clean the wet area with a towel
Mouth Care
- Always use a soft toothbrush for mouth care
- Keep in mind that while you are brushing the teeth, the movement should be away from the gums.
- Use a medicated toothpaste for mouth care
Oral Hygiene
- Always keep teeth, tongue and gums clean, as our mouth is known to be ground for bacteria which can transfer the bacteria throughout the body.
- In addition to this, brushing should be done frequently, so as to remove food content stucked between teeth.
- This helps to strengthen our gums
- Along with this, you can also brush your tongue and gums gradually using the same toothbrush.
- This will help to remove harmful bacteria promoting fresh breath
Menstrual Hygiene
- Menstrual hygiene is an important part of a woman’s personal hygiene
- Always use proper pads during menstruation and change it at regular intervals.
- Bathing during a period is considered as a healthy way of keeping hygiene.
- Properly dispose all the menstrual products, so that other persons or pets will not be exposed to them.
Psychological Issues of Personal Hygiene
- When you are clean and tidy, you can feel more confident when you are in social situations.
- Many job interviews which especially are dependent of hygiene can lead to positive results.
- Maintaining personal hygiene can help to reduce the risks of sick health
Important Instructions for Maintaining Personal Hygiene
- Wash your hands before assisting another individual. This is the best way to protect yourself and the other person against illness and infections.
- Adjust the water temperature of bathing. Always wash face and upper torso first followed by arms and legs.
- Always cut your fingernails and toenails on the regular basis. Neglected nails can lead to infection or foot ulcer. Always cut your toenails straight across.
In this ways, we can say that mentioning personal hygiene can lead you to the different moods in the regular life. You can feel much better and positive by applying it in your life.
About the Author
Albright is a well known physician who has done his graduated from the Louisiana State University Medical School, New Orleans. He is practicing as a general physician from last 10 years. He has a good knowledge of treating patients with problems using clinical best practices and protocols. He gives individualized, updated, personal attention to his patient at the uppermost level of clinical efficiency. His special interests are Neuro Somatic disorders, heart diseases, neurological disorders, join pains and chest diseases. Currently he is working at Kindred hospitals
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