Outcome 1
1. Explain why personal hygiene is important
Personal hygiene is very important in life. It covers all aspect depends on culture or any way of life. It could be personal reason, social, psychological, or just the way of maintaining healthy lifestyle. For personal reason, it could boast self esteem, feeling good about self or as a way of making the self more attractive to others. In social reason, a good personal hygiene can project a positive image that reflects one’s personality and be more welcome to the society. Health reasons, maintaining the self clean would mean being free from the risk of illness. Psychological view means opportunities to become more successful if you look more presentable. Personal hygiene means having good practices of taking care of one’s self and leading to healthy lifestyle. This is the daily routine of taking a shower or wash on the whole body, brushing teeth, combing hair, cleaning the ears, eyes, nose, nails and wearing comfortable and clean clothes, knickers, socks and shoes. Good hygiene protects you from illness and diseases, and it affects the way you feel about yourself and other people feel about you.
2. Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and well-being
There are a lot of poor personal hygiene effects like Skin diseases, Dental disease, depression and social problems. In skin diseases, poor personal hygiene like not taking a shower or even wash may compromise the first line of defense of the body like the skin. The skin protects the body against micro organisms and if it is not being taken care well, it may cause dryness, scales, or even rashes or cuts. Anything that causes any portal of entry of microorganism into the body would cause infection or even more serious diseases. In the case of dental diseases, if you do not brush your teeth as required it may cause cavities, tooth decay and