Website design By BotEap.comFor several days I have been trying to decide on a topic to write about and have not had the luck of finding one that I feel comfortable with. While this was weighing heavily on my mind, I got up one morning and, as is my custom, stepped into the shower and began to wash and soak. The hot water was great and I enjoyed complete satisfaction as it gently cascaded down and lapped against my body. As I applied my favorite men’s body wash, using it as directed, my thoughts turned to how wonderful it was to be able to shower and stay clean, but I wondered what the negative impact would be of not being able to stay clean and practice good personal practices. hygiene. So there you have it. I decided to use that moment of epiphany revelation as the starting point for this article. I am happy to have done it. It is a worthwhile subject to write about. What then is the negative impact of a general lack of personal hygiene and a habitually dirty body, on that person’s general feeling of well-being?

Website design By BotEap.comWhere do we look for answers to this perplexing question? I decided to focus on the plight of people on the street as the most transparent and meaningful examples of the point I wanted to make. I want to make it perfectly clear that I do not see any causal relationship to suggest that the inability to practice good personal hygiene causes someone to have to live on the streets. But I do suggest that it is axiomatic that there is a link that establishes the need to live on the street, as the main cause of a person’s inability to practice the requirements of good personal hygiene.

• Problems encountered due to lack of personal hygiene: the effect of a dirty body on general well-being

Website design By BotEap.comForcing to live on the street or in some other place where a person cannot do what is necessary for good personal hygiene has devastating effects. Here are some of them.

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Website design By BotEap.comIf that person was employed when this issue arose, it is unlikely that they will be able to remain employed for much more than a week after moving down the street. Because who among us will look with charity and patience at someone in the workforce, perhaps in the next cubicle, filling the available air with body odor?

Website design By BotEap.comWhat are the employment prospects if I did not already have a job? After a week or so living on the streets, their chances of getting a proper job are slim to none and getting less and less with each passing day.

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Website design By BotEap.comYou would make an exceptional host or hostess sponsoring a dinner party that you would invite our street person to attend. Even if it’s a close friend, I suggest no invite is sent out and the most that would happen is that food could be discreetly offered as a way of extending charity. In the name of brotherly love, he might even be allowed to take a shower. But how many times could I count on that? He would have exhausted his welcome by the end of the first week, if not before. Again, your lack of grooming, dirty clothes, body odor, and bad breath that exist in such circumstances are all obstacles to your inclusion in the social network, if any, that you had prior to this disaster.

Website design By BotEap.comThen, too, there are people who, for whatever reason, are simply sloppy and even unwilling to take the time to get clean. This type of person almost by definition becomes a reclusive social misfit. Shy and introverted, he usually spent his time alone withdrawing from the world and from other people who would normally be able to actively participate in his life in a meaningful way.

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Website design By BotEap.comFinally, there is a series of medical and general health conditions that are contracted by living on the street. Lice on the head and pubic areas are acquired by the need to use shabby public toilets and by having to sleep on the floor almost literally every night. Colds and the flu become common, as do other medical conditions that require treatment.

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Website design By BotEap.comWhat are some of the things we need to do to remedy or mitigate the effects of these life circumstances that are affecting the general sense of well-being of those facing this problem?

• Up-to-date vaccinations are needed to protect public health and, whenever possible, prevent disease outbreaks.
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• Proper sanitation is a must.
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• Building low-cost public housing to put a roof over the heads of the homeless and get them off the streets.
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• Those who have the means to care for themselves but don’t should attend a seminar on keeping clean and healthy.
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• For a person who simply does not want to maintain personal cleanliness, there is very little we can do for him, except do everything possible to instill in him the need, if necessary, by enlisting the services of professionals in social work, psychology, and other disciplines.
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• People with other disabilities have their local public health department and a number of social and religious entities to turn to. The Salvation Army, Meals on Wheels, and similar programs are widely available to the homeless, elderly, and disabled. Depending on one’s circumstances, education and counseling on how to properly care for oneself may be available. The Internet, a good phone book, and the Department of Public Health are good resources for identifying available local agencies capable of helping someone who wants to overcome this problem.

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Website design By BotEap.comFailure to adhere to good personal hygiene practices will lead to a variety of personal, social, and medical conditions that will greatly impact a person’s sense of general well-being. They also have the potential to cause problems for the general population if allowed to get out of hand. A wise person once wrote the aphorism “cleanliness is next to piety.” By remembering this, it serves as a reminder of our need to practice good personal hygiene.

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