HYGIENE

HYGIENE  is any practice or activity that you do to keep things healthy and clean. washing hands, coughing into your elbow, regular house cleaning, are all part of a good hygiene. PERSONAL HYGIENE refers to the things we do to clean and care for our bodies. Dirt,bodily secretions,food particles and even germs can accumulate on our bodies if we dont clean ourselves regularly.

One personal benefit of good hygiene is having good health. Keeping your body clean at all times helps prevents illness and infection from bacteria or viruses. For example the simple act of washing your hands regularly is an effective way of keeping germs from spreading. You would be more likely to get sick if, instead of washing your hands,you wiped them off your clothes and went to lunch.

Maintaining good hygiene also helps you have better self esteem. In other words when you take care of how you look, you feel better about yourself. When you do not take care of your persona hygiene, it can make you feel less confident and unmotivated.

GOOD PERSONAL HYGIENE
Good personal hygiene habits include:
1. washing the body often. everybody should have a shower or a bath every day 
2.cleaning the teeth at least once a day. Brushing the teeth after each meal is the best way of making sure that gum disease and tooth decay are avoided. It is very important to clean teeth after breakfast and immediately before going to bed
3.washing the hair with soap or shampoo at least once a week
 4.washing hands with soap after going to the toilet
5.washing hands with soap before preparing and/or eating food. During normal daily activities, such as working and playing, disease causing germs may get onto the hands and under the nails. If the germs are not washed off before preparing food or eating, they may get onto the food 
6.changing into clean clothes. Dirty clothes should be washed with laundry soap before wearing them again
7.hanging clothes in the sun to dry. The sun's rays will kill some disease-causing germs and parasites
8.turning away from other people and covering the nose and mouth with a tissue or the hand when coughing or sneezing. If this is not done, droplets of liquid containing germs from the nose and mouth will be spread in the air and other people can breathe them in, or the droplets can get onto food