A Guide to Your Family Personal Hygiene in Times of Covid-19
Good hygiene for many people is a matter of day to day routine and has become part of them such that they think little about it. They regularly have their bathe, they brush their teeth at least twice daily, visit their dentists and doctors for regular checkups, and they also regularly wash their hands when preparing and after eating food and when handling unsanitary items.
To keep your family and friends especially children healthy and safe, help them to learn to appreciate good personal hygiene habits, and ensure that they are practicing, good personal hygiene.
Generally speaking, a good personal hygiene goes a long way in preventing many diseases. Appropriate grooming coupled with healthy personal habits also help you in the way of illnesses prevention, it also promote your sense and feeling of well being.
Good Personal Hygiene Needed Now More Than Ever
In this period of global pandemic of Covid-19 outbreak it becomes more necessary to make priority your level of hygiene and that of your family and feel good about yourself. Your personal safety and that of your family now becomes more important and responsibility than before, hence Personal Hygiene becomes a priority and responsibility to maintain infection and disease free life.
Below are some of suggested approaches to your personal and family hygiene, these are habits which should be part of your routine practice.
The saying: “Good personal hygiene is essential to promoting good health” is correct after all
Hand washing – Life is Better with Clean Hands
Frequent washing of your hands has been a timeless measure to good health; you must practice and teach your young ones to wash their hands frequently. We use our hands mostly to touch many things, many of which might have germs. The hands serves as the part of the body that mostly have physical contact or interface with the environment, it constantly interacts with the outside of the body and can bring in unwanted guests into the body.
Regular washing of your hands would prevent many unfriendly and harmful germs and bacteria from gaining entrance into your body. Therefore it is very important that you wash your hands very often, most especially before preparing or eating food, after using the toilet or the bathroom, after sneezing and or coughing, after handling garbage.
In respect of the novel Covid-19 disease it becomes more necessary to make it a point of duty to wash your hands at any opportunity even without engaging in the above mentioned activities, any time you return from any outdoor activity.
In washing of hands, the proper method must be employed each time you are to wash your hands which is to wash thoroughly under running water with soap for minimum of 20 seconds.

Steps to Effective Hand Washing
There is a proper way to wash your hands in order to prevent germs, bacteria and viruses. Many wash their hands in the wrong way. However proper method of hand washing is easy
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