Hygiene: the concern for maintaining health. Hygiene begins with the human himself, personal hygiene is an important part in preventing infection.

Provide clean clothing and do daily clean underwear.

Watch out with injuries, these are good entry points for bacteria.

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Prevent for flu and colds by good hygiene. Wash your hands, keep your hand over your mouth when you cough or sneeze. Use paper towels.

Viruses that cause colds and flu, are in nasal discharge, saliva and mucus. During talking, coughing or sneezing, we distribute these viruses. The risk of infection is especially in areas where people are sitting close together and there is less ventilation.

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• Prevent contact with the door handle.
  
  Open the door of the toilet by pushing it with your foot or elbow. If you must touch it anyway, do it with a paper towel. Use when leaving the toilet a toilet paper to open the door.
  
  
• Avoid direct contact with the toilet seat.
  
  Do not sit directly on the toilet. Always put a paper toilet seat pad or some toilet paper before you sit down.
  
  
• Avoid direct contact with the flush button ..
  
  If you flush the toilet, always use a piece of toilet paper, never directly touch the flush button
  
  
• Never directly touch the water tap.
  
  Use a paper towel to open and close. If there is no paper and you can not avoid direct contact, it's more hygienic to do not wash your hands.
  
  
• A study from the University of Westminster shows that hot air dryers - to be used in thousands of public toilets - to ensure a sharp increase in the number of bacteria on hands after washing. If you drie your hands under a hot air dryer, the amount of bacteria on your fingertips increase with an average 186%. Your palms then contain 230% more bacteria.
  
  

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Toilets, door handles and money have a bad reputation. It would have been hotbeds of bacteria, many people are very conscious of hygiene when they contact. They wash their hands if they have been on the toilet and take down the door handles with their sleeves.

Other unexpected places where you can find germs:
1) The shopping cart: at 80 percent of shopping carts found to contain traces of E.coli.
2) Cutting Board: The average cutting board has more bacteria than the average toilet seat. Clean with hot water is a must. Avoid wooden shelf, which exhibit more bacteria!
3) Lift: The button for the ground floor is the most widely used and thus a breeding ground for bacteria.
4) ATM: The OK and Stop buttons on an ATM are touched by anyone, these are like the elevator button a gathering place for bacteria.
5) Office / workplace: we eat, drink and clean our nose, what is all behind!
It has often been noticed by the knowledge that our excessive hygiene of the past half century, besides many advantages had unhealthy side effects. Thus, children appear to have grown up on a farm, hardly bothered by allergies and respiratory diseases. Research from Emory University in Atlanta too much brushing increases the risk of depression.

Again scientists come to the conclusion that women in particular have a bigger chance of diseases such as allergies, asthma, rheumatoid arthritis and Crohn's disease even if they lack as children are exposed to dirt. Research at the University of Oregon in the United States.

Their researcher Sharyn Clough explains: "Girls wear more likely clothing that may not be dirty than boys. Girls play more often inside than boys, they play more outside. Also, girls playing, their parents keep an eye on them. "

According to Clough, this implies that girls are kept cleaner than boys. "There is a big difference in the type and number of bacteria which girls and boys are exposed. And this may explain the difference in health between men and women. "

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Sexual Hygiene

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