Ww1 Trench Hygiene

The Trenches were a horrible place to fight and live in during the war. Most of the trenches were filled with water and mud, some were filled with the dead bodies, and others were filled with millions of rodents and bugs. All the men here in the trench are as disgusting as the trench they are in. The hurt soldiers had inflamed and infected wounds. The trenches were the place where you will most likely die of getting infected. The worst place to be in the war were the trenches because it was a disgusting place, the human hygiene and all the disease were horrible, and the change in weather brought worse hygiene.
The trenches were horrible when it came to the hygiene of it. It had the rotten smell of decaying men and feces from the soldier's. The smell of the human feces brought all the rodents and the maggots to the trenches. (The life on the front line) The toilets left the dead soldiers, some of them were left in the sun, and others were buried in the trenches. The …show more content…
The people in the trenches had no way to clean themselves from all the grime in the trenches that collected on their bodies. A disease called, "Trench Fever" came up during the war it was not deadly. This fever came up because of the horrible hygiene of the men in the trenches. Trench foot also came up because of the hygiene of the men. Trench foot is when your entire foot, toes, or just part of your foot becomes numb, inflamed, and it becomes gray. Trench foot happens when your feet do not get a lot of blood because the blood is trying to keep you warm. The people in the trenches did not have the ability to shower and clean all of the wounds so they will most likely become infected. This cause the limbs have to be amputated, which made it even worse for the person. The trenches need to add something to help clean, the people so they cannot become infected and sick. Some reasons why the men in the trenches became, sick were based on the