PERSONAL HYGIENE FOR KIDS

                                       PERSONAL HYGIENE

What is Personal Hygiene?

Personal Hygiene means taking care of the body. It is the principle of maintaining cleanliness of our body.

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It is important to have good personal hygiene for both health and social reasons. It involves keeping our hands, feet, head and body clean to avoid the spread of the spread of germs and illness. 

Your personal hygiene benefits your own health and impacts the lives of those around you, too. It reduces the issue of body odour which may lead to embarrassment at school.

Poor hygiene can also cause health problems through the spread of infections, viruses and diseases.

Keeping your body clean is an important part of keeping you healthy and helping you to feel good about yourself.

Care of the hand:     

It is important to always care for our hands by:

1. Washing our hands regularly entails we wash our hands:

• Before eating or cooking food
• Before carrying up a baby
• After visiting the toilet
• After coughing or sneezing, or being in contact with someone who is ill
• After being in contact with animals
• After playing

    2. Care of the nails: It is important to take care of our finger and toe nails regularly by                keeping them trimmed and well polished.

   3. We must wash our hands with moisturizing hand soap.

Care of the Mouth

Caring for your teeth and practicing good oral hygiene wards off gum disease, bad breath, tooth decay and many infections. Remember to always:

• Brush your teeth twice a day – after breakfast, and before bed time
• Floss the teeth daily and fill your mouth with water and swish it around to get rid of anything sticking to your teeth.
• Keep your tooth brush in a clean, dry place and replace it every three month.

Bathing and Care of the Feet

Take your bath every day using water and soap. It is advised to take your bath twice a day when the weather is warm. Daily bathing is an integral part of good personal hygiene. 

Areas to concentrate on while bathing involves, your armpits, groins, neck, belly, knees, elbows, back, feet and every other parts of your body

• Take your bath at least twice daily with soap and water to  prevents body odour.
• Skin infections such as Athlete’s Foot can be reduced by carefully washing and drying the affected areas daily.
• Shampoo and condition your hair at least once a week to keep the scalp clean and prevent head lice.

Care of the Hair

To keep your hair clean we must: 

• Wash your hair regularly with soap and/or shampoo And massage it very well to remove dirt, excess oil and dead skin.
• Rinse your hair very well with clean water.
• use a wide toothed comb for wet hair as it is easier to pull through.

Care of the clothes:

Germs and dirt can cling to your clothes, therefore, we need to:

• Wash your clothes after each use so that these germs and dirt can be removed.
• Press your cloths with pressing iron to keep it neat
• Change your Underclothes daily because they are right next to your skin and collect dead skin cells and sweat.

What are the Importance of Personal Hygiene?

1. It protect us from the spread of germs and diseases
2. It keeps us healthy, because poor hygiene can lead to poor health.
3. It boosts our self esteem and confidence.
4. It prevents body odour.
5. It reduces the risk of being bullied.

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