While no one wants to be the person in the room who smells bad, not everyone realizes just how important it is for your overall health to take care of your personal hygiene on a daily basis. Apart from potentially having negative social consequences, having poor hygiene can also lead to physical problems that you may have been able to otherwise avoid.
To help you see just why you should make your personal hygiene a top priority in your life, here are three ways your hygiene can affect your health.
Higher Rates of Illness
When your body is unclean, you open yourself up to vulnerabilities to your immune system. This is especially the case if you don’t wash your hands as often as you should or after handling things that are particularly dirty or germ-filled.
According to GlamCheck.com, not washing your hands or keeping to a consistent hygiene routine can result in you getting contagious diseases or illnesses like salmonella, the common cold, influenza, hepatitis, staph infections, and much more. To reduce your chances of developing these and other illnesses and diseases, it’s important that you take the time to adequately wash your hands and other body parts that may come in contact with someone or something that’s a carrier of these illnesses.
Increased Growth Of Bacteria
Not only can poor physical hygiene cause you to get sick more often and have more germs attacking your body, but it can also make you a hotbed for bacterial growth.
Especially in areas of your body that are particularly hot, sweaty, and dark, bacteria can easily begin to grow and cause you issues if you don’t keep you with your hygiene. One result of this, according to Chris Sherwood, a contributor to Healthfully.com, is having body odor.
To combat the growth of this bacteria, make sure you’re adequately washing your body on a regular basis. Additionally, you may also want to shave certain areas of your body with a safety razor so you can have minimal hair in areas where bacteria are more likely to grow when given the chance.
Dental Issues
It isn’t only the outside of your body that you should be concerned with when it comes to your personal hygiene.
Proper dental care is also vital for having a strong and healthy body. When you neglect your dental hygiene, Deborah Weatherspoon, a contributor to Healthline.com, shares that you can not only have issues with your teeth and gums, but infections in the mouth can lead to other major health problems, like heart disease.
To avoid running into some of the major health problems that can come from bad personal hygiene, make sure you’re cleaning your body properly.
Originally posted on May 19, 2021 @ 7:42 pm