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Fun & Facts about Hygiene. Cleanliness is serious business; dirty hands killed a president. HYGEINE COMES FROM THE WORD HYGIEA. Hygiea was a Greek goddess of health cleanliness and the moon. Ancient Greek gods apparently worked double shifts. GERMS !.
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Fun & Facts about Hygiene Cleanliness is serious business; dirty hands killed a president.
HYGEINE COMES FROM THE WORD HYGIEA • Hygiea was a Greek goddess of health cleanliness and the moon. Ancient Greek gods apparently worked double shifts.
GERMS ! • The human body is home to some 1,000 species of bacteria. There are more germs on your body than people in the United States. • Bathe America, Bathe!
Expensive Hand Sanitizers • Antibacterial soap is no more effective at preventing infection than regular soap. After studying over 11,000 children it was found that an overly hygienic environment increases the risk of skin conditions and asthma.
THEY DON’T DO WHAT? • Monks in a small religious monastery in India are not allowed to bath any part of their bodies besides their hands and feet. • Their religion believes it is wrong to kill any living creature even microorganisms.
MOUNT SAPO • The word soap comes from this mythological mountain. • When women washed their cloths in the Tiber River, the dirt on the shore was a mixture of fat and wood ash from animal sacrifices coming down from the mountain. They used this as a cleaning agent.
I’LL USE DIAL, THANK YOU • Ancient Egyptians and Aztecs rubbed urine on their skin to treat cuts and burns. • Urea is a key chemical in urine. • When urine is in the bladder it is free from fungi and bacteria, so it was possibly cleaner than the water they drank.
V-I-C-T-O-R-Y IS THE KNIGHTS BATTLE CRY! • England’s medieval King Henry IV struck a blow for cleanliness when he required his knights to bath a least once in their lives.---during their ritual knighthood ceremonies.
FLUSH PLEASE • During the 18th-century, London did not have a sewer system. Toilet water was just dumped out of the windows on to the streets, where it contaminated the city’s water supply. • They did not know at the time that boiling water would help make the water safer to drink. • In 1854 there were 616 deaths related to the water supply in London alone. • Because of this, is was a common practice to drink alcoholic beverages at every meal and in-between.
5 SECOND RULE • TRUE OR FALSE: • If you drop something on the floor but pick it up in less than four seconds, it will be OK. False. There is no five-second rule when it comes to food on the ground. Bacteria needs no time at all to contaminate food.
GOOD OL’ CHINA • The first toothbrush was invented in China in 1498. It was made of carved cattle-bone and pig bristles wired into it. • Brushing ones teeth did not become routine in the USA until it was enforced in 1940 on soldiers during World War ll.
SAY WHAT?????? • In 1935, Northern Tissue proudly introduced “splinter-free” toilet paper. • Previous options included tundra moss in North America and sea sponge from salt water for Romans. Here in the modern West corncobs were used.
DON’T INSULT A GENTLEMAN In 1843, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. campaigned for basic sanitation in hospitals. But this clashed with social ideas of the time concerning upper class citizens like doctors. Charles Meigs, a prominent American physician, retorted, “ Doctors are gentlemen, and our hands are always clean.” • However, up to a quarter of all women giving birth in European and American hospitals in the 17ththru 19th centuries died of an infection spread by unhygienic nurses and doctors.
TV KILLS • A study by the University of Arizona determined that the TV remote control in hospitals are the worst carriers of bacteria in hospital rooms; worse even than toilet handles. The remote can spread the infection MRSA, which contributes to over 90,000 deaths a year.
THE BULLET DID NOT KILL HIM • It is now believed President James Garfield did not die from the bullet fired by Charles Guiteau. • Some of the medical team that treated the President were also farmers with manure-stained hands. The wound developed a severe infection that killed him three months later.
LAST THOUGHTS • Hygiene tips do not have to be complicated. • Everyone can practice good hygiene. • Soap and water are the simplest form of cleaning. • Wash hands all day long, especially before exiting the bathroom, and before meals. • When at all possible wash the TV remotes, mouses and keypads between users. & A WARNING TO THE GERMS! BE PREPARED TO DIE. SOUTH ELEMENTARY STUDENTS AND STAFF ARE ON THE WAR PATH.
