As you may already know, your health matters and regardless of how draining and expensive it can be, taking care of yourself is the priority. This naturally means that you have to be mindful of yourself, your environment, what you eat and your home to ensure that you are healthy and disease-free. Here is a list of some seemingly basic hygiene tips that are often overlooked yet should be prioritized as it may be the difference between a healthy you and a sick you.
Take Regular Showers
The number of people who have come with new research on how bathing regularly can harm your body and whatnot has increased, misleading people into showering less and promoting bad hygiene. Our bodies have natural body odor that can be triggered by the activities we do daily including light walking and exercising. No excuse should allow you to skip your showers as you may end up having bacterial buildup, making your skin prone to infections and making you smell bad. Unless you like smelling like a den of germs, diseases and tons of sweat, you need to take regular showers. Besides, bathing helps you to relax a bit more and it also allows you to freshen up. You can't compromise on your showers, and therefore, there is a need for you to shower regularly for your hygiene.
Regularly Wash Your Hands
If only you had microscopic eyes, then you would understand the unhealthy things that your hands touch, which are invisible to the eyes but harmful to your body. Every chance you get, you need to wash your hands using soap and water to rid of the several germs that they come in contact with. You also need to wash your hands after using the bathroom, or being in public places, not only for your good but to protect the people you will come in contact with. As soon as you get home after being outdoors, you need to wash your hands thoroughly. You also need to ensure that you don't have any meals without washing your hands first.
Keep Your Nails Short And Well Trimmed
The amount of gems that take cover under the envelope of your long and untrimmed nails may be the reason why you keep getting sick. Long nails are home to thousands of bacteria that can be easily transferred to our systems through everyday activities such as eating. You need to keep your nails short and well-trimmed so that you avoid dirt buildup. You also need to ensure that they are not sharp as you may end up hurting yourself and the other people around you. Stop biting your nails, as this is just you directly feeding on all the bacteria under them, and it can lead to you getting sick.
Moisturize and Protect Yourself From The Sun
Moisturizing your skin is not only recommended for you to have glowing skin. It helps ensure that your skin doesn't dry up or oil up which both attract skin infections such as eczema and acne. You need to ensure that you regularly moisturize your face and body so that you protect your skin from any unhealthy breakouts. You also need to invest in good sunscreen and the sun isn't the skin’s best friend at all. The UV rays from the sun damage your skin and may even be cancerous for your skin. By applying sunscreen, you, therefore, protect your skin, saving yourself from the unhealthy direct contact it may have with the sun.
Change Your Underwear
Why would you risk endangering your health over something so easily accessible and small as underwear? Wearing the same underwear twice is not an option and it is not something that you should ever normalize. Your underwear harbours so many germs and bacteria that come from your sweat, dead skin cells and pubic hair. Every time you repeat it you are continuously making yourself infections that may pose a great danger to your health. Besides this, your underwear can become very smelly after being worn and repeating it will cause you to have a bad odour. I'm sure we all want to turn heads for the right reasons and not because we smell very badly.
Always Wash Your Vegetables And Fruits
How many times do you buy an apple and bite it down without washing it first? How about the number of times you just cut your vegetables without even giving them a proper wash? If your answer ranges from anything inclusive of and above 1, then you are in danger because the number of germs that are on your fruits and vegetables is not healthy at all. Ensure that you give your fruits and vegetables a proper wash down before cooking and consuming them.
Disinfect Your Home Surfaces Regularly
Every time someone touches your door handle or your home surface they are spreading germs onto it. So you can only imagine the variety and number of germs that are probably on all your doors and surfaces by now if you have never disinfected them. The same amount of energy you spend on mopping your floor and cleaning your kitchen is the same energy you should use to wipe down and disinfect all your doors and house surfaces regularly so that you avoid the continued spread of germs around your house.
Stop Touching Your Face Unnecessarily
Your face is home to very sensitive organs such as the nose and eyes. When you continuously touch your face, you transfer the germs and bacteria that you would have come in contact with all day and smear them right onto your face causing several skin, eye and nose infections. You, therefore, need to stop the habit of touching your face unnecessarily if you want to become healthier.