Hygiene

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Meaning

A cartoon of different things we use for hygiene.

Hygiene is keeping yourself clean to prevent you from getting ill.

Singular Noun: Hygiene

Plural Noun: Hygiene

Adjective: Hygienic

About Hygiene

There are lots of things we have to do to for our hygiene. To stay hygienic we must clean different parts of our bodies in different ways.

Brush our teeth

Brushing our teeth keeps our mouth hygienic. It does this by getting rid of bits of food that might rot in our mouths. It also wipes away tiny creatures that live on our teeth that can cause our teeth to decay.

=Use soap when washing our body.

• Wash our hands regularly.
• Scrub our nails.
• Wash our hair.
• Wipe our bottoms.

Examples

Our hands can get dirty and sometimes we put our hands in our mouth so we should always wash our hands before eating and after going to the toilet to stay hygienic. We should also scrub our nails to get rid of the dirt that gets stuck there.	Our hair can get greasy and some insects like to live in our hair making our head itchy. We should wash and comb our hair regularly to keep our hair hygienic.
Food can get stuck in our mouths. For our hygiene we must brush our teeth twice a day to get rid of any food that might be rotting in our mouths. It also gets rid of tiny creatures that live in our mouths that can cause tooth decay.	We should always use toilet roll to wipe our bottoms. If you don't clean your bottom you can get a rash.
We should blow our noses into a tissue when we are ill. This helps stop other people from getting ill too.	We should wash our bodies with soap regularly. Water is not enough to clean the dirt off our skin so we must use soap. Soap has saved millions of lives by keeping people hygienic.