Personal and environmental hygiene are important for health and well-being. Personal hygiene involves maintaining cleanliness of one's body and clothes through practices like bathing, oral hygiene, and handwashing. It aims to prevent the spread of disease. Environmental hygiene refers to keeping living environments sanitary through cleaning, waste disposal, and controlling pests and vectors. Proper personal and environmental hygiene helps create healthy conditions and prevents the transmission of illnesses.

1. PERSONAL
&
ENVIRONMENTAL
HYGIENE

2. Hygiene
 Introduction
 Personal hygiene
 Environmental hygiene

3. HYGIE
NE
Personal
Hygiene
Environmenta
l

4. Hygiene
From the Greek
word “hygies”
Meaning
“healthy, sound”

5. Personal hygiene
Means maintaining a clean body and clean
clothing

6. Personal Hygiene
As healthcare professionals we have a duty to care for and promote the health
and wellbeing of all our service users in a holistic manner.
 This, at times we may be required to assist in the personal care of our service
users.
This must be done in a way that ensures the privacy and dignity of the patient
is upheld and promoted at all times.
The personal care of a patient should be viewed holistically, meaning personal
hygiene is not simply about assisting the patient to wash.
It is about ensuring their eyes, mouth, nose and nails are clean, to a standard
that would be acceptable for ourselves or one of our relatives.
Personal care also ensures that skin integrity is maintained.

7. What is Personal Hygiene?
Regular Routine of Personal Care
Washing and Grooming
Your Hair
Your Face
Your Skin
Your Teeth
Your Ears
Your Hands
Your Nails
Your Feet

8. Hair
Brushing your hair cleans and stimulates hair and scalp.
Brush from roots to tips to spread natural oils along the whole length of hair.
Shampoo regularly
Microbes on hair

9. Ears
Wash ears daily with a wash cloth don’t forget behind the ears
Do not use Qtips in ears it will smash the ear wax deep into the ear canal
Did you know…..??
Ear wax is usually removed when you chew food or gum

10. Dental Hygiene
Mouth care (oral hygiene) can be defined as care of the mouth and teeth.
Mouth care maintains a clean and comfortable oral cavity.
Patients may not have an awareness of the need or importance of oral
care and may also be unable to express to health professionals when they
have problems.
 Oral care is important for patient’s health and well being for a variety of
reasons.

11. Poor oral hygiene is well known to be associated with painful,
unpleasant diseases such as gingivitis, halitosis. It is also linked to chest
infections and pneumonia.
 Oral problems can lead to reduced dietary intake and increase the
possibility of malnutrition.

12. Recommended hand washing procedure
8.Dry with
towel
1. Wet
Hands
7.rinse
2.Soap
6.Soap
lather
3.lather
5.rinse
4.brush

13. SKIN CARE
The skin plays a key role in protecting the body against pathogens and
excessive water loss.
Proper skin hygiene is important because unclean skin farrows the
development of pathogenic organisms.
Functions of the skin are disturbed
when it is excessively dirty and dirty
skin is more prone to develop infections.
The skin has several functions:
Maintenance of temperature
Protection
Excretion
Sensation

14. Fingernails and Toenails
File fingernails in one direction
Cut toenails straight across – never cut into corners
Protect against ingrown toenails by avoiding tight shoes, very high heels

15. Make Hygiene part of yourdailyroutine

16. Environmental hygiene
Definition
The study of health and how it is affected by the environment
The measures undertaken to keep the human environment safe
and healthy to live in, including waste disposal, clean water
supplies, food safety controls and good housing

17. Deals primarily with:
Cleanliness & housekeeping of premises & facilities –Rooms,
toilets, eating areas, etc.
 Disinfection of changing & eating surfaces and objects.
 Waste management – disposal of litter, diapers, etc.
Control of vectors/pest.

18. Some of the practices for disposing the
garbage are:
 Keeping the house clean:
 The house must be cleaned every
day.
We must sweep and mop the house to
remove dirt from every nook and corner
of the house.
The furniture must also be wiped
clean.
The cobwebs from the walls and roof
should be cleared at least once a week.
To keep the environment healthy, we should be careful about the disposal of
the garbage.

19.  Throwing garbage in dustbins:
Do not throw your household garbage on the roadside.
This makes street dirty and allows flies, mosquitoes and other
animals to breed.
 This garbage not only gives a dirty look but also produces foul
smell.
Garbage should be thrown inside the dustbins.
The bins should also be cleaned after emptying the garbage.
 Keeping dustbins covered:
 To prevent entry of insects and other animals inside the house
dustbins should be kept covered.

21. Non
infectio
us
plastic
materia
l
Infectiou
s
Plastic
Material
Infectious
Material
c Sharp
container
Cyto toxic drugs
BINS AT USE

22. Clean
compounds
Clean
and airy
rooms
Concrete drains to
drain soil
Oiling surface of stagnant water
Use Mosquito nets on beds
Spraying insecticides on walls

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