IMPORTANCE OF UNDERSTANDING THE NEED OF PERSONAL HYGIENE- A COMPREHENSIVE REVIEW

Personal hygiene may be defined as a practice contributing to maintaining health and preventing disease, especially through cleanliness of a personal individual. Good hygiene is a principal barrier to numerous communicable diseases, which includes the faecal–oral diseases, and which promotes well-being and healthier. To attain the significant health benefits, better hygiene should be built concurrently along with the development in the sanitation and water supply, and be merged with other interventions, equally improving in increasing income and nutrition. The main benefit of practicing personal hygiene is to decrease the disease communication and improve the health condition. Personal hygiene is very much important during menstruation or periods because women will be sweating and vaginal discharge will be there to prevent the odour and to be healthy personal hygiene is important. Many organizations are working for personal hygiene and for providing hygiene related awareness. Practices in personal hygiene include water source, water treatment, water storage, water use, excreta disposal, waste water disposal, food handling