Hygiene and health

Hygiene and health:

Let's make hygiene a habit to achieve a happy and full life.
Hygiene is one of the best ways to be healthy and healthy, but for this, it is necessary to pay attention to body changes, odors, and sweat. This observation will help us eliminate possible germs that cause bad odor in our bodies.
Maintaining hygiene is important not only to prevent infections or inflammations, and even diseases, but also to make us feel surer of ourselves.

A more scientific definition 
states that "Hygiene is the set of knowledge and techniques that individuals must apply to control the factors that exert or may have harmful effects on their health."
Its main objectives are to improve health, conserve it and prevent diseases. This implies:
Cleaning, cleaning of places or people or genital parts2. Habits that favor health.3. Part of medicine, aimed at promoting healthy habits in disease prevention.4. Recognition, evaluation, and control of those factors and environmental stresses that arise in the workplace and that can cause diseases, health breakdowns, loss of well-being,
discomfort and inefficiency of workers and citizens.5. Personal hygiene is the part of medicine that deals with the means in which man must live and with the way to modify them in the most favorable sense for their development.
In the year 2000, a report published by the entity of the United Nations Children's Organization UNICEF entitled "School Sanitation and Hygiene Education" revealed that a third of the world population -2400 million people- had difficulties in accessing the satisfaction of basic hygiene. According to the entity, children are the most vulnerable to the situation, the factor that prevented to stop the advance of some diseases related to the absence of cleaning. The most interesting aspect of this report lies not only in the inverse relationship that exists between poverty and hygiene. What is really revealing is that the entity understands that the solution of the hygienic problems is not determined, exclusively, by the investment in
the basic infrastructure of environmental sanitation (potable water, aqueduct, and sewerage systems), but for a comprehensive education. Education, according to UNICEF, should have two central axes of development: home and school. The fact that these nuclei can have the same orientation in this matter is the first step for children to start creating cleaning habits. We must be hygienic:
With bathing or personal hygiene • With food • With the animals, we have as a pet • With clothes and toys • With the environment
More than half of all illnesses and deaths in early childhood are caused by germs that are transmitted through lack of hygiene, through the mouth through the ingestion of food or water or due to dirty hands. practical tips to be successful in the task of keeping us clean:

1. As parents, we must set the example. As a natural reference for children, we must have a clean and neat home. We also have to show them how we brush our teeth by asking them for their company in the bathroom, explaining what we are doing, what the brush and toothpaste are for. two.

2 We must instill habits from an early age. A child will always understand more than he/she can express, that is why it is necessary for parents to be constantly specifying the reason for each hygienic action and the health benefits that they report.

3. Regularity. Habits must be created daily and manifested in every aspect of daily life. In this case, we must arm ourselves with patience because the results of our work will not be seen immediately but in the long term. Ideally, the instructions received by children should be as simple as possible. The complication or improvement must

4. The child must have a prepared environment. Toiletries should be within reach of children. The toothpaste cannot be stored on a shelf with a key, there should always be toilet paper available, etc. If the conditions are not given for the infant to carry out his cleaning duties, demotivation will appear. The child should have their own hygienic elements to take care of them and know where they are.

5. Every moment of grooming should be pleasant. Never say "wash your hair because if I'm not going to punish you without television." On the contrary, it is better to show the positive side of the action: "how nice it is to have clean hair". Relating this point to the example we should give as parents, it is important that when we clean up we show the pleasure it produces for our children

6. You have to be creative. If a method of creating hygienic habits does not give results, do not despair, much less fall into reprimand, it is better to look for another system. In the case we have more than one child, a system that gave optimal results with the oldest, it will not always be the same with the child, in that case, we must have the ability, and above all the patience, to innovate.