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Hygiene, Personal Hygiene
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Causes of Bad Breath
Everyday common hygiene products, beverages an medications can be the cause of your bad breath. Here is how they cause bad breath.
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Hand Hygiene During an Emergency
After an emergency, it can be difficult to find running water. However, it is still important to wash your hands to avoid illness. It is best to wash your hands with soap and water but when water isn't available, you can use alcohol based products made for washing hands.
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Recommendations for the General Public on Hygiene
No single recommendation for hand hygiene practices in the general population would be adequate. The demand for hand hygiene among health care professionals has never been greater.
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Skin Barrier Properties and Effect of Hand Hygiene Practices
Water content, humidity, pH, intracellular lipids, and rates of shedding help retain the protective barrier properties of the skin. When the barrier is compromised (e.g., by hand hygiene practices such as scrubbing), skin dryness, irritation, cracking, and other problems may result.
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Hand Hygiene for the General Public
Issues regarding hand hygiene practices among health care professionals have been widely discussed and may be even more complicated than those in the general public.
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Personal Bathing and Washing
Studies of personal and domestic hygiene and its relationship to diarrhea in developing countries demonstrate the effectiveness of proper waste disposal, general sanitary conditions, and handwashing.
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Hygiene of the Skin: When Is Clean Too Clean?
Skin hygiene, particularly of the hands, is a primary mechanism for reducing contact and fecal-oral transmission of infectious agents. For over a century, skin hygiene, particularly of the hands, has been accepted as a primary mechanism to control the spread of infectious agents.
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The Sweat Stops Here
Sweating: Do you suffer from severe excessive seating or hyperhidrosis? Like it or not, we all have to sweat in order to maintain a regular body temperature.
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Bacteria and germs beware: The power of Silverhealing has arrived
The silver in the wound pad penetrates minor cuts and wounds, destroying germs and accelerating natural healing. Learn about your hygiene.
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Coming Clean: The Truth About Soap
Soap is the oldest cleanser around. It is created by a chemical reaction between oils, water and lye. Although lye is used to make soap there is no lye left after saponification (the chemical reaction that makes soap) is complete.
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Building The Bridge To Health: An Interview with Todd Ravins, DDS
A Biologic Dentist goes beyond what is inside your mouth. It is a holistic approach that takes into account your overall health.
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Showering: Is Your Health at Risk?
Showering is common practice in North America to shower on a daily basis, sometimes more than once. Unfortunately, most people are unaware that more chlorine is absorbed through the skin during the average shower than by drinking six to eight glasses of tap water. This may make one wonder, how clean is shower water?
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Computer Keyboards Dirtier Than Toilets, Effect HygieneA new study has found that most of computer keyboards are dirtier than toilets making them riskier for personal hygiene reasons. Keyboards are homes for harmful bacteria and an easy way for bacteria transmission from one person to another.
Public Urged To Guard Against Bacillary DysenteryHong Kong Department of Health urged members of the public to observe good personal, food and environmental hygiene following confirmation of an outbreak of bacillary dysentery, an intestinal infection caused by bacteria.
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