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Personal hygiene

Personal hygiene. By Dr. Shazia Rahman Shaikh Assistant Professor Department of Community Medicine and Public Health Sciences ,LUMHS . Hygiene. Hygiene is the study and observance of health rules.

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Personal hygiene

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  1. Personal hygiene By Dr. Shazia Rahman Shaikh Assistant Professor Department of Community Medicine and Public Health Sciences ,LUMHS

  2. Hygiene • Hygiene is the study and observance of health rules. • Hygiene refers to the set of practices associated with the preservation of health and healthy living.

  3. Hygiene • Hygiene is an old concept related to medicine, as well as to personal and professional care practices related to most aspects of living. • In medicine and in home (domestic) and everyday life settings, hygiene practices are employed as preventative measures to reduce the incidence and spreading of disease.

  4. Personal Hygiene • Personal Hygiene is defined as “The branch of health which is concerned with the individual΄s adjustment to the physiological needs of the body and mind for the attainment of the maximum level of health”.

  5. Personal Hygiene • Personal hygiene involves those practices that promote: Mental Emotional Physical health Social well being of the individual

  6. Character of an Individual

  7. Heritage • Heritage is an innate factor. • It is what a person, actually is even before birth.

  8. Environment • Environment is what an individual has, e.g Relations Friends Housing Food

  9. Response • Response is what the individual does with one΄s heritage in the prevailing environment.

  10. MENTAL ASPECTS OF PERSONAL HYGIENE

  11. Mental Aspects of Personal Hygiene • Mental hygiene deals with ways of human mind to obtain personal and environmental enrichment of life. • It deals with psychological concepts as: Desires Emotions Satisfactions Attitudes

  12. SOCIAL ASPECT OF PERSONAL HYGIENE

  13. Social Aspect of Personal Hygiene • Social aspect of personal hygiene is based upon the principle that No person, who should be called healthy, has the right to do anything which would harm his fellows • Drug addiction, use of tobacco are the aspects of unhealthy social aspect of personal hygiene

  14. PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF PERSONAL HYGIENE

  15. Physical Aspects of Personal Hygiene • Personal hygiene involves those practices performed by an individual to care for one's bodily health and well being, through cleanliness. • Good personal hygiene habits are related to the different parts of body.

  16. Hand Care

  17. Nail Care Cut your nails and push your cuticles Wash your nails File your nails Inwards

  18. Oral Hygiene

  19. Bad Breath Caused by the activity of certain types of oral bacteria. Other causes: • Tongue not cleaned • Food stuck in teeth • Sinus problems • Stomach problems

  20. Bathing & Hair clean

  21. Wash the face two times a day with a mild soap or gentle cleanser. • Use lotions if needed. Care of the face

  22. Care of Eyes, Ears, Nose

  23. Care of feet

  24. Care of Clothes

  25. For the maintenance of good health both physical and mental hygiene must be practiced regularly. • Physical and mental hygiene must go hand in hand. • Hygiene is the secret of health. Conclusion

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