"Clean & Shine: The Health and Hygiene Showdown!"

Hello steemians. Good to be here again for partake of this contest on hygiene and its importance.

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Hygiene is basically the act of keeping our environment clean so as to keep it free from diseases and their causative agents. The subject of Hygiene touches every area of our lives from personal hygiene to cloth hygiene, to cooking hygiene and our overall environmental hygiene.

Observing proper hygiene is very paramount and important if we must live a healthy live. If we do not properly take care of our environment daily to keep them clean and free from diseases then we would continually be sick from the diseases we would in-cure from living in dirty environment.

If there must be good health, there must be hygiene involved. Diseases trive were there is no proper hygiene but proper hygiene helps to keep infections and sickness to it barest minimum.

One of the good hygiene habits we must imbibe is the regular washing of our hands. Regular washing of hands helps to prevent illness. This is because most illnesses are caused by microorganisms that attach themselves to our hands as we go about our day to day activities.

We often see ourselves putting our hands in our mouth, Eyes, ears, nose and etc. If we don’t wash our hands often, there’s the probability of transferring these microorganisms into our bodies through this openings and they in turn harm us by causing illness. If we wash our hands often with soap and water, we can keep these microorganisms at bay and hence reduce illness.

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There are so many sickness we can prevent by practicing good hand hygiene, some of them includes;

• Hepatitis A : Hapatitis A is a disease that affects the liver. It can be easily spread if the person who has it did not wash his hands especially after using the toilet. Coming in contact with this person or anything he touches even food can lead to transmission.

• The corona virus pandemic popularized the importance of washing of hands as it can be transmitted if one comes in contact with body fluids or droplets from someone who had the same virus.

• Nosocomial infections are common in hospital environments especially among those who work in health care industries and hence they are encouraged to always wash their hands while on duty and while handling patients.

• Airborne diseases such as chickenpox, influenza and meningitis can be reduced through regular washing of hands and maintenance of a healthy hand washing routine.

Cleanliness they say is next to godliness. Keeping our environment clean is very important as a dirty environment is a breeding ground for diseases and sicknesses.

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Over here in my country Nigeria there is emphasis on ensuring our drainages are clean because if stagnant water is left in the gutters, they turn to breeding grounds for insect like mosquitoes which causes malaria and a lot of people die from malaria yearly.

Proper disposal of wastes results to good air and good water for consumption and hence healthy living. We must ensure to wash our dirty clothes and not let them pile up for so long as this would lead to breeding of microbes.

I remember one incident when I was younger of how we left piles of dirty clothes for over a month in the house. The clothes were all piled up and smelling. We kept procrastinating the washing until the day we finally brought it out to wash, A big insect fell out from the pile of dirty clothes. I was a shock to me. How did it get there and for how long had it been living in our clothes? Am sure the dirt attracted it.

We must make sure to clean the toilets regularly to avoid toilet infection and also ensure to wash the plates and mop the floor with disinfectants as this will help to reduce microbes at home. We should also brush regularly at least Twice a day and take our bath often.

In conclusion, Cleanliness is generally good for our overall health and should not be overlooked. If we want to live healthy lives, we must clean our body and our environment.

Thank you and hope you enjoyed this write up. I invite @ruthjoe, @jovita30 and @bonaventure26 to participate of this contest.