HAND WASHING.
Proper hand washing is one of the most effective way of preventing the spread of disease such as diarrhoea disease. Pathogen cannot be hand and water alone is not always sufficient to remove them. Soap and wood ash are both cleansing and disinfecting agent when used with water and can kill pathogen on hand and utensil.
The most important time that hand should be washed with soap and water are
Bathing.
Regular bathing and laundering are important for cleanliness and good personal appearance. They also prevent hygiene related disease such as scabies, ringworm, trachoma, conjuctivitis, and house borne typhus.
Operation should also allay concerns about voyeurism which may be:-
To promote laundering of clothes and bedding. Laundry slab or sink can be constructed near water point.
Community hygiene
Some health measure can be only by the community as whole these inclufe water source protection, proper disposal of solid waste and excreta, waste water drainage, cintrol animal rearing and market hygiene
Proper hand washing is one of the most effective way of preventing the spread of disease such as diarrhoea disease. Pathogen cannot be hand and water alone is not always sufficient to remove them. Soap and wood ash are both cleansing and disinfecting agent when used with water and can kill pathogen on hand and utensil.
The most important time that hand should be washed with soap and water are
- After defecating
- After cleaning a child who as defecated
- Before eating and handling food.
Bathing.
Regular bathing and laundering are important for cleanliness and good personal appearance. They also prevent hygiene related disease such as scabies, ringworm, trachoma, conjuctivitis, and house borne typhus.
Operation should also allay concerns about voyeurism which may be:-
- Hand washing using tap
- Hand washing at a standpost
To promote laundering of clothes and bedding. Laundry slab or sink can be constructed near water point.
Community hygiene
Some health measure can be only by the community as whole these inclufe water source protection, proper disposal of solid waste and excreta, waste water drainage, cintrol animal rearing and market hygiene
