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Support Individuals to maintain personal hygiene
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UNIT 93SUPPORT TO
INDIVIDUALS
MAINTAIN PERSONAL
HYGIENE
1.) Understand the importance of good personal hygiene.
1.1 - Explain why personal hygiene is important.
Having good personal hygiene is important as it is beneficial to your health.
Personal hygiene is not just limited to a shower, it also includes brushing
your teeth, cleaning your ears, washing your hands etc.
Your mood is also affected by your hygiene and generally people with a
good hygiene will be happier than those with a poor hygiene as they will
both look and feel better in themselves.
Having good personal hygiene will have long-term benefits. Things we don't
think about such as our overall health can be affected drastically through
good hygiene. An example could be brushing teeth, if we didn't brush our
teeth we would lose them rather quickly depending on your diet.
Your overall appearance is affected by your personal hygiene. Looking smart
and presentable is a requirement for almost all jobs as well as being better
received by others in social terms.
If you have good personal hygiene you are less likely to carry infectious
diseases and bugs which could be passed onto another individual.
1.2 - Describe the effects of poor personal hygiene on health and wellbeing.
Having poor personal hygiene can affect both physical and mental health.
Physical health
Body odour is produced by our apocrine (sweat) glands. The most common
body odour is that of our armpits. Keeping our armpits clean and dry is
essential to maintaining good personal hygiene. The smell emitting from our
armpits is caused by bacteria.
It is important to wash under our arms, our groin area and between the
buttocks. Bacteria is more likely to reproduce in the folds on our skin which
is why these areas are of most importance when taking care of our skin.
Brushing your teeth is vital to maintaining good personal hygiene. If you
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