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• What is personal hygiene?
• Why is personal hygiene important?
• Personal hygiene for women
• Personal hygiene for men
• Types of personal hygiene

Personal hygiene is an important factor to enjoy a healthy life. Personal hygiene means take off your body, clean it on regular basis. It includes bathing, washing, and many more. It will help you to become healthy both mentally and physically.

If we talk about people with poor hygiene condition, they make others annoy by their body smell as our body produce germs that cause infections and bad smell. This type of person may have to face loneliness as a result.

What is personal hygiene?

As human beings, we have to go out and meet multiple people across the day, and we come in contact with millions and trillions of germs. They attach to our body and in case if we don’t take care of our body, they will make us sick, such as gastroenteritis.

This is why we should be very careful about personal hygiene, as it will make you fit as well as confident with your appearance.
Personal hygiene is one of the best ways to enjoy a healthy and peaceful life. It involves:

1. Washing our hands properly.
2. Don’t cough and sneeze on others, use tissue paper.
3. Take a shower on a regular basis, etc.
4. Brushing your teeth regularly.
5. Washing your hands after using the toilet.
   

Why is personal hygiene important?

For a healthy body, personal hygiene is important. It helps us to prevent germs and other diseases.

Washing is one of the main factors of personal hygiene, whether it may be handwashing or body washing. Poor hygiene may lead to severe diseases, for example:

1. Infectious diseases, for example, COVID-19.
2. Diarrhea.
3. Respiratory infections.
4. Thread worms.
5. Scabies.
6. Trachoma.
7. Tooth decay
   

Personal hygiene for women

Women should be more careful with the personal hygiene of their inner body parts. The vagina of women cleans itself, so avoid using any type of chemicals. Here is some important suggestion to take care of your body in a good way.

Menstruation

During the menstrual cycle, women should be so careful about personal hygiene. Try to wash your genital area as you wash your hands. Take very good care of your sanitary pads and change them regularly.

Cystitis

Cystitis is bladder disease. To prevent this, urination after intercourse is helpful to get rid of bacteria present in the urethra and bladder.

Personal hygiene for men

As personal hygiene is important for women, it's also essential for men’s sexual part. Germs develop in the inner layer of uncircumcised men. So to avoid any type of disease, men should clean this area by pulling the skin and rinse the bacteria from here.

Types of personal hygiene

Personal hygiene routine is different for different people. Let’s have a look at it.

Dental hygiene

Dental hygiene isn’t about having white teeth. It means having teeth that are free from gum disease, cavities, and bad breath. Brush your teeth regularly to avoid these types of issues.

Body hygiene

Our body contains millions of sweat glands that produce sweating that ultimately leads to bacteria growth and hence body odor. Washing your body is a good start to your hygiene.

Handwashing

Our hands come in contact with multiple things that contain germs. That is, we should wash our hands regularly to avoid spreading diseases.

Nails hygiene

Our nails contain dirt and germs that lead to illness. So nails hygiene is an important part of the body.

Toilet hygiene

Scrub your hands with soap for 20 to 30 seconds, as soon as you come out of the toilet.

Shower hygiene

The shower is essential for body hygiene as our body gets in contact with dust and bacteria, so washing your body makes you feel good.