Watch how you can protect yourself from getting sick in the video below.
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The World Health Organization defines hygiene as “the conditions and practices that help to maintain health and prevent to spread diseases.”
We’ve been taught since childhood to take care of our personal hygiene such as bathing every day, washing hands whenever we touch something dirty, brushing our teeth, and so on. These practices of personal hygiene are taken for granted in developed nations. There are places that face a scarcity of water or don’t have access to basic hygiene because of war or natural disaster.
But that’s why these places face a high incidence of disease and even epidemics. This only underscores the importance of hygiene in our lives.
However, maintaining proper hygiene goes beyond keeping one’s body clean. It’s a broad term that also includes keeping one’s house and workplace clean. These include places like the bathroom, washroom, and kitchen.
Let’s face it, even if we keep ourselves personally clean, if our immediate environment is dirty then we may find ourselves getting more sick than we need to be. And the fact that those situations are easy to avert makes it all the more important to find out how to ward off those easily avoided illnesses. As the saying goes, an ounce of prevention is better than a pound of cure.
The following video by Wochit includes some easy hygiene tips when going out in public that will keep those sniffles away for most of the year. In fact, they so laughably easy that it’s a wonder that more people are not aware of them.
These include:
1 – Changing your clothes after coming from outside.
2 – Using your own pen.
3 – Not touching public doorknobs or switches with your own hands.
4 – Staying well-hydrated.
5 – Being careful of what types of food we eat.
6 – Passing on the ice in public.
There are simple reasons why it makes sense to follow these tips so make sure to watch the short video for more details and start yourself off towards better health!