Many people have a difficult time dealing with personal care during major trauma or stressful events. It almost seems like personal care is not important when you are dealing with a much more important problem however improving your personal care
can help you solve the problem you are dealing with. Improving your personal care will also improve your physical and mental health thus making you a more efficient problem solver.
What Is Personal Care?
Personal care is simply the things you can do to yourself on a regular basis that will improve your health and the way you look to others. This also includes products, beautification, and personal hygiene. Some examples of processes that many people would consider personal care include:
Bathroom Care
- Washing Hands Appropriately
- Tooth Brushing
- Flossing Teeth
- Mouth Washing
- Scrubbing Your Skin Or Bathing
- Eyebrow Maintenance
- Personal Grooming
- Healthy Nail Care
- Use Of Antiperspirants
- Corns And Calluses Removal
Personal Heath
- Various Exercises
- Regular Nutritional Intake
- Disinfection
- Safe disposal
- Proper bandaging
- Use of protective clothing and gear
- Sterilization of instruments
- Isolation or quarantine of infectious persons or materials
Personal Care Around Others
- Use of Antibacterials or Hand Sanitizers
- Correct respiratory and hand hygiene when coughing and sneezing
Care For Personal Foods
- Prevent contaminating food
- Separate raw and cooked foods
- Cook foods for the appropriate length of time
- Store food at the proper temperature
- Use safe water and raw materials
Personal Care Around The House
- Appropriate Laundry Hygiene
- Regular Disinfection
- Appropriate Air Purification
- Safe Garbage Removal
- Pleasant Noise And Sound Levels
Physical Mobility Care
- Regular Long Distance Running
- Balance Exercises and Biking
- Swimming And Aquatic Movement
- Frequent Skiing, Snowboarding, And Other Mobility Using Gravity
- Improve Walking On Natural Surfaces With Bare Feet
- Appropriate Hydration During Mobility
- Ability To Run And Move Quickly For A Short Time
- Frequent Climbing Using Both Hands And Feet
There are personal care assistants who may be able to help get you started but I believe it is optimal to complete your personal care yourself thus helping to put your own investment in improving your health.
How Personal Care Improves Health
When you improve your personal care you are less likely to become sick, you lower your risk of infection, and over time the preventative things you are doing will pay off over the rest of your life. Even things like scrubbing your skin in the morning will help the look of your skin and you ability for your skin to work easily in the morning for overall body cooling and sweating. When you are completing your personal care, try to remember to do things that are also “preventative care” as well.
Personal Care During Stress
It may be hard to keep up your personal care during a stressful event but do it for yourself. If you have been through the loss of a loved one, grief, divorce, or a parental child abduction it is important to continue with your personal care and help show your children or other people around you ways they can improve their care during this stressful time as well.
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