Take Care Of Your Personal Hygiene With These Simple Steps!

Creator: Sanjeev Kumar Singh
Published: Jul 23, 2019
Keywords: English

Dr. Sanjeev Kumar SinghAyurvedic Doctor • 15 Years Exp.BAMS

In a life, full of stress, tension, anxiety and busy schedules, people barely take care of their personal hygiene. People are so busy in their lifestyles and work that they don’t even get a proper time to take care for themselves, which at some point affects their physical and mental health.

To keep yourself away from germs, bacterias, viruses and illness, personal hygiene should be a part of everyone’s regular routine. Hygiene never mean washing hands and brushing teeth, includes every part of the body neat and clean. People must be careful while coughing or sneezing when they are with someone or in any public place.

Try to use tissues, if suffering from cold and cough and also remember to throw it after using it. If you are in a risk of catching infection, through any ways include sexual intercourse, in which people can use protections like condoms, which are available for both sexes.

Personal hygiene also affects individuals mental health, so if you practice good hygiene, there are chances, you will stay mentally fit. If you carrying unwashed clothes, body odor, bad breath, missing teeth, then you can face social discrimination or get bullied at your social life too.

Importance of personal hygiene

Being good towards your personal hygiene is beneficial for your health and social environment. Being neat and clean impacts lives around you as you will be having less chances of getting ill. It also makes you socially and personally well presentable, that will reflect your personality as well.

Having a good personal hygiene, will help you to have a better self esteem. In other words, if you are unhygienic, then you will feel uncomfortable which will lessen your confidence level in public. Indirectly, poor hygiene will also affect your mental health.

Below we have described the effects of poor personal hygiene:

Hygiene plays a very important role in everyone’s life but what if you fail to take care of your hygiene? This will not only impact your body but will also demoralise you to stand in public. It’s a fact that people do not want to stand with or near someone who smell bad or who has lice in his/her hair.

Here we will take the look at the effects of poor personal hygiene:

Body odor: It is one of the most common poor hygiene practices. Body odor is caused when the sweat interacts with bacteria that are formed in apocrine glands. When the sweat is left unwashed for too long, the bacterias get multiplied and causes the smell from body parts like armpits or intimate parts. This leads to embarrassment if you are in public.

Bad breath: You may not feel good if you talk to someone and your mouth badly smell. To save you from this awkward situation, you must brush your teeth at least two times in a day. If you don’t do so, the bacteria attacks your teeth and digest the leftovers, after which your teeth starts smelling. This is recommended to wash your mouth after eating your meals, so that the bacteria did not harm your teeth.

Urinary Tract Infection: The infections in the Urinary tract is caused by the bacteria Escherichia coli which usually resides in intestines. As soon as the bacteria manages to enter urethra, it moves towards the kidneys and bladder whi c ch leads to fever, pain and problematic urination. It is important to maintain proper toilet habits. You must use paper tissues in washrooms and ensure yourself to wash your hands each time you use bathroom. You can also use alcohol jelly as an alternative to water and soap. You can prevent urinary infection with the help of Namyaa intimate hygiene wash, specially built for women. It help to clean vaginal area and maintain the required pH level.

Ringworm: This is an infection which is caused by fungal organisms in the skin layers. A scaly and itchy rash appears in the middle of the skin in the shape of ring. Ringworm infection spreads if you are in contact with an infected surface, person or animal. To prevent this disease, you must wash the infected area thoroughly with water.

Depression: Yes, you heard it right. You may fall into depression if you have poor hygiene. It begins from a feeling of low self-esteem and low self worth. If you will not keep yourself well dressed, well finished, you may face comments from everywhere, which will directly affect your mental health and lessen your confident. Bad hygiene always affect your personality.

Benefits of personal hygiene

Poor hygiene not only leads to bad odor or bad breath but sometimes it also brings severe health issues. Despite of illness, it may also spoil your personal, professional relationships and school performances. Here are the points why personal hygiene is beneficial for us:

Good health:

We are always in contact with germs and bacterias. Whatever we do, we are always in connection with harmful organisms. To keep yourself safe from them, you need to bath regularly and remember to wash hands after using washrooms.Use tissues after sneezing or coughing. Good hygiene also helps in maintaining the pH level skin.

Personal Relationship:

It is obvious, if your body will odor, or you will have an unclean appearance, no one will like to talk to you You will feel uncomfortable in your company which will hamper your relationships with others.

Professional Relationship:

Imagine you are in your office, and your sweat is smelling like hell? Do you think anyone will sit beside you or they will talk to you? People will prefer to maintain distance with you. This will only lead to embarrassment. So, it is better to maintain your hygiene and go office in a well-dressed manner.

Washing your hands, bathing regularly are not only the types of personal hygiene. Taking a sleep of proper eight hours also comes in good personal hygiene. Now, after we have known the benefits of personal hygiene. Below we have provided 10 personal hygiene practices that you must know:

Hair: Wash your hair regularly. This will help in removing the dead skin from the scalp and will also wash off dirt from the head. If you don’t keep it clean, you can suffer from dandruff that will lead to pimples on your face.

Hands and Feet: Wash your hands always before and after eating. Your hands carries more germs that other parts of your body. Washing your hands regularly will ward off germs and bacteria and will help you to stay fit. You must also wash your feets daily before sleeping especially the bacteria-prone area i.e. near your feet.

Body: Keeping your body clean will save you from numerous body diseases. Bathing regularly will wash off bacterias and germs that may lead to body odor. This will also help in maintaining mental health.

Nails: Nails deposits lot of germs inside and when you eat something with hands,these germs goes inside your stomach which leads to severe stomach pain and other illness. So, it is always said to keep your nails small and if your nails are long, then remember to take proper care for your nails and keep it clean.

Grooming: It is must to keep your private parts clean as it can lead to major health issues. Your underclothes or socks collect the dead skins and sweat from your body. So it is important to change your undergarments and socks on a daily basis.

Ears: It is one of the parts of body that we ignore. But we should never do so. Keeping your ear clean is also very important for your body and health. If you don’t get time daily, so make sure, you clean your ears at least once in a week.

Oral: Oral hygiene is also very important for a person’s health. It is recommended to brush twice in a day and flossing at least once. This helps in stopping the bacteria to attack our teeth which saves you from gum diseases and plaque. If you keep your teeth clean, you will never face embarrassment while talking to people.

Donn neat clothes: Dirty clothes are source of contamination which may cause many kinds of health issues. It is better to wear clean clothes.

Feminine Hygiene: During menstruation, remember to change your sanitary napkins and tampons after 6-7 hours. Keep a few tampons and sanitary pads in your bag, so that you can use whenever you need it.

Sleep: Many people, especially the youngsters suffer from poor sleep hygiene. It is said that a person should take at least an eight hours sleep. This not only helps in maintaining your health but it also helps to restore energy and keeps you f6fit and fresh.

We have provided personal hygiene checklist that you must go through, so that you did not face any sort of embarrassment because of your hygiene habit: