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Personal Hygiene
Personal hygiene is how we look after our bodies. Keeping ourselves
clean makes us feel better about ourselves and also keeps us, and
those around us, healthier!
Why Keep Clean?
?
Which parts of our Why do the things that Why do you think
body do we need to we wear need to be kept keeping clean is
keep clean? clean? important?
Article 24 of the United Nations
Convention on the Rights of the Child
When we don’tstates
keep our
thatbody or child
every clotheshas
clean,
the germs can start to grow,
right to
which can make us unwell. These germs are called bacteria. We have good
good hygiene and to be healthy.
bacteria in our stomach that helps to digest food, but we also have bad
bacteria that can begin to smell nasty and make us ill. We have to kill the bad
bacteria by keeping ourselves clean.
Sweat! Perspiration in another word for sweat. Sweat comes out of tiny pores
in our bodies. Sweat doesn't smell, but if you don’t wash your skin, bacteria
can grow and it will begin to smell. Exercising and feeling warm can make
you sweat more.
Where to Clean and What to Use
Hair Hygiene
Face Hygiene
Hand Hygiene Toilet Hygiene
Whole Body Clothing
Hygiene Hygiene
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Hair Hygiene
It is important to wash your hair
with shampoo regularly. What You Need:
If you don’t wash your hair
regularly, it can look greasy as oils
start to build up on your scalp.
Remember to rinse all the
shampoo away at the end of your
bath or shower.
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Facial Hygiene
What You Need:
Colds, Coughs and
Brushing Teeth Sneezes
Washing
It is recommended that we Having a blocked or runny
It is important to wash your nose can be a horrible
brush our teeth twice a day,
face regularly using warm feeling. Use a tissue to deal
for around
water. Some people also with this - no sniffing,
two minutes.
choose to use face wash or picking or wiping your nose
soap. on sleeves.
Brushing properly removes
plaque. Plaque can cause
Everyone’s skin is different You should always cover
cavities, toothache, gum
so find something that your mouth and nose when
disease and even our teeth
works for your skin. coughing and sneezing to
to fall out!
stop the spread of germs.
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Hand Hygiene
What You Need:
Why Wash
How to Wash When to Wash
Washing our hands is one of
Wash your hands with warm When your hands are
the simplest ways we can
water and soap for 20 dirty!
keep ourselves and those
seconds - you can sing Before you eat or help
around us healthy.
‘Happy Birthday’ twice! prepare food.
Remember to dry your After petting animals.
Washing your hands kills
hands fully with a clean After using the toilet.
germs, stopping you passing
towel or hand dryer. After you sneeze, cough
them into your body when
Don’t forget to keep your or blow your nose.
you eat or touch your face
nails clean and short and Before and after visiting
and can stop the germs
don’t bite them! someone who is unwell.
spreading.
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Whole Body Hygiene
What You Need: It is important to keep your
Wash your body with warm
water and soap or shower
body clean by showering or
gel. Think about the body
taking a bath regularly. It is
parts that may need cleaned
especially important to
most frequently - under our
wash our bodies after
arms, between our legs and
exercise as this can make us
our feet with all those sweat
sweat!
glands!
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Clothing Hygiene
It is really important to wear clean clothes. If we wore the same clothes all the time, they
would get dirty and start to smell. This doesn’t mean wearing new, clean clothes every
day, but you should freshen your clothes every few days and wash them if they are
visibly dirty.
Underwear is different. Underwear covers our private parts, which can get the most
sweaty. This includes socks! Our feet are covered in sweat glands and can easily get
sweaty and smelly as we’re on our feet a lot.
Change your socks and underwear every day.
Remember to put the dirty ones in the dirty washing
basket!
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Toilet Hygiene
It is important to maintain good personal hygiene when going to the
toilet, making sure all the urine goes where it should and not on the floor!
Boys can use a toilet or urinal to urinate and will need to shake their penis to make sure
they get all the last drops into the toilet. They can use toilet paper to gently wipe
themselves.
A girl can use the toilet to urinate and should use toilet paper to gently wipe themselves
from front to back.
Things to remember:
Wipe yourself, making sure the toilet paper is clean before you stop.
Make sure toilet paper goes into the toilet bowl.
Clean up any drips on the toilet seat.
Flush the toilet after use.
Wash your hands.
