Health Hygiene & Sanitation

Lesson 13 : Personal Hygiene

Examples Of Personal Hygiene

• Washing hands in soap and water immediately after evacuating bowels or bladder and always before handling food or eating
• Keeping hands and unclean articles or articles that have been used for toilet purposes by others away from the mouth, nose, eyes, ears, genitalia and wounds.
• Avoiding use of common or unclean combs, hairbrushes, and pipes.
• Avoiding exposure of other persons to spray from the nose and mouth as in coughing, sneezing, laughing, or talking
• Washing hands thoroughly after handling a patient or his belongings
• Keeping the body clean by sufficiently frequent soap and water baths.