2. Personal hygiene By Dr. Shazia Rahman Shaikh Assistant Professor
Department of Community Medicine and Public Health Sciences ,LUMHS

3. Hygiene Hygiene is the study and observance of health rules.
Hygiene refers to the set of practices associated with the preservation of health and healthy living.

4. Hygiene
Hygiene is an old concept related to medicine, as well as to personal and professional care practices related to most aspects of living.
In medicine and in home (domestic) and everyday life settings, hygiene practices are employed as preventative measures to reduce the incidence and spreading of disease.

5. Personal Hygiene Personal Hygiene is defined as
“The branch of health which is concerned with the individual΄s adjustment to the physiological needs of the body and mind for the attainment of the maximum level of health”.

6. Personal Hygiene
Personal hygiene involves those practices that promote:
Mental
Emotional
Physical health
Social well being of the individual

7. Character of an Individual
ENVIRONMENT
HERITAGE
RESPONSE

8. Heritage Heritage is an innate factor.
It is what a person, actually is even before birth.

9. Environment Environment is what an individual has, e.g Relations
Friends
Housing
Food

10. Response
Response is what the individual does with one΄s heritage in the prevailing environment.

11. MENTAL ASPECTS OF PERSONAL HYGIENE

12. Mental Aspects of Personal Hygiene
Mental hygiene deals with ways of human mind to obtain personal and environmental enrichment of life.
It deals with psychological concepts as:
Desires
Emotions
Satisfactions
Attitudes

13. SOCIAL ASPECT OF PERSONAL HYGIENE

14. Social Aspect of Personal Hygiene
Social aspect of personal hygiene is based upon the principle that
No person, who should be called healthy, has the right to do anything which would harm his fellows
Drug addiction, use of tobacco are the aspects of unhealthy social aspect of personal hygiene

15. PHYSICAL ASPECTS OF PERSONAL HYGIENE

16. Physical Aspects of Personal Hygiene
Personal hygiene involves those practices performed by an individual to care for one's bodily health and well being, through cleanliness.
Good personal hygiene habits are related to the different parts of body.

17. Hand Care

18. File your nails Inwards
Nail Care
Cut your nails and push your cuticles
Wash your nails
File your nails Inwards

19. Oral Hygiene

20. Bad Breath
Caused by the activity of certain types of oral bacteria. Other causes:
Tongue not cleaned
Food stuck in teeth
Sinus problems
Stomach problems

21. Bathing & Hair clean

22. Care of the face
Wash the face two times a day with a mild soap or gentle cleanser.
Use lotions if needed.

23. Care of Eyes, Ears, Nose

24. Care of feet

25. Care of Clothes

26. Conclusion
For the maintenance of good health both physical and mental hygiene must be practiced regularly.
Physical and mental hygiene must go hand in hand.
Hygiene is the secret of health.