PERSONAL HYGIENE AND GOOD MANNER
Personal hygiene is the practice of keeping your body, belonging
and environment clean in order to maintain good health, or Personal hygiene is
how you care for your body. This practice includes bathing, washing your hands,
brushing your teeth, understanding personal hygiene is the best way to keep
yourself from infection diseases
Good hygiene is important because it help you and your family from
catching diseases that are caused by contamination of things like foods, water
and so on, the spreading of germs may cause many diseases that can pass from
one person to another. Maintaining good personal hygiene will also help prevent
you from spreading diseases to other people.
PRINCIPAL OF PERSONAL HYGIENE
i)
Wash your body every day, make sure you take bath with clean water and soap,
wash your hair and keep them clean, when taking bath wash yourself well,
especially under your armpits and around your genitals. Keeping clean will help
you escape skin diseases and remove bacteria that cause body odor.
ii)Always
wear clean clothes, make sure you take off the dirty clothes wash them iron
them to kill any bacterial in the clothes and make you clothes look tidy
iii)Wash
hand with soap and clean water after visiting the toilet and before eating,
once you come out of the toilet make sure you use soap and clean water to wash
your hands, to get rid all the bacterial in your hands, it is better to use
sanitizer to help kill the germs that got into your hand.
wash
your hands before and after preparing food. This will stop you contaminating
the food, also washing your hands after handling pets and other animals.
iv)Brush
your teeth at least twice a day, in the morning and before you sleep, rinse
your mouth with clean water after eating make sure you use toothpaste,
toothpaste can kill micro bacterial for example Colgate or white dent and so
on, you can also begin brushing your baby’s teeth and gums the moment the first
tooth pops up. They can brush their own teeth when they at 3 years old.
v)Keep
the environment clean, the environment includes your bedrooms, home, village,
desk, classroom and school, most of the diseases that affects our community are
caused by the unclean environment for example of the diseases malaria, cholera,
typhoid and so on.
vi)Cover
your mouth and nose with a clean handkerchief or tissue when sneeze or cough,
yes it good thing when you sneeze or cough to cover your mouth because most of
the respiratory diseases are spread through saliva or fluid contamination
vii)Keep
your nails short and clean, make sure your nails are cut and clean, long nails
have tendency to hide dirty, by cutting the nails you remove the chance of
keeping the dirty
viii)Do
not share handkerchiefs, towels and clothes especially underwear, never share
your personal things that you use to wipe yourself
ix)Wash
your hair at least once a week, you can also use shampoo to clean up your hair
and make it look good, comb it every day or keep it well plaited
x)
Change your bedding regularly, sleeping with unclean bed sheet could lead to
some health problems like sneezing and coughing
xi)Wear
comfortable and well-fitting clothes, never wear cloth that is too tight
especial during the time to sleep
xii)Avoid
picking your nose and biting your nails, if you love to bite your nails you
better stop because you may be eating dirty some time.
xiii)Avoid
touching other people’s body fluids such as blood, urine, vomit and saliva with
your bare hands, this could lead to spread of diseases quickly due to the
infections
GOOD MANNER
Good manner is behavior that is socially accepted it include honesty, respect
for others, politeness and helpfulness. you must learn to practice
good manner because any society that you live you must have good manner so that
you can live well with the people around you, when we practice basic good
manner, we are showing that we have respect to those surround us and we are
considerate to their feeling.
We can show good manners by showing just small good actions for
example when you pass someone you either know or you don’t it is important that
you greet that person, however it may not be your obligation to greet someone
you don’t know, or helping guest some bags when they are leaving your home or
holding a door open for someone and smile at them.
PRINCIPLES OF GOOD MANNERS
i)Maintain
good posture when sitting or standing, keeping bad posture may cause you to get
backbone problems, but also when someone is talking to you then you are not
supposed to look away or down.
ii)Welcome
visitors warmly introduce them to the people they do not know, be kind to the
guest you never know good things can come to you
iii)Be
helpful to other people, if you can give assistance, do not wait until you are
asked, if you help other people then when you are in need and ask other people then
they will help you too
iv)Greet
people politely, if you were sitting stand up straight, if you were walking or
running, stand still, greeting people while keep walking it show that you do not
even care about that person
v)Dress
properly according to the occasion and the social norms of your community,
never dress inappropriate when you go to the social meeting or gathering.
vi)Cover
your mouth when you sneeze, cough or yawn this will stop the spread of any
respiratory diseases
vii) Say
“please” when requesting for something, it is a good manner to ask something in
nice way
viii)Say
“thank you” when you are given something or are allowed to do something, “saying
thanks” it means that you are showing appreciation to the person who gave you
that thing or allowed you to do something.
x)Be
punctual when you are meeting or visiting someone, when someone make
appointment to meet you or you should meat together somewhere just be punctual
and get there in time.