Health and Hygiene Essay

Do you have a leaky basement? Leaky basements are a sign that you have water problems. Water-related issues, such as standing water or pooling water around your home, can eventually damage your foundation and promote mold growth. When the water pressure rises, so does the risk of basement leaks. The soil around your basement becomes saturated after heavy rainfalls, causing stress to your basement walls. This increased pressure causes the basement walls to bow, lean or crack. Without proper…

hand wash cost $2.00, while organic care costs $4.00. The hypothesis was refuted, as it was said the popularity of the product would dictate its effectiveness and efficiency, yet the most popular product is dettol. Dettol is seen in everywhere, on hygiene posters, tv ads, in public bathrooms etc., and so it is thought to be the most popular. But, taking into consideration the results noted above, organic care was the mose effective. Dettol hand wash and sanitiser was the least effective at…

Shirley Cards were used by photo labs to calibrate skin tone, shadows and light during the printing process of a picture (npr.com). Shirley cards date back to the mid- 1950s, when Kodak was the primary company for color film (npr.com). What would happen is a customer would bring in their film to a shop or lab and they would then print the pictures for them In order to maintain clean and precise photos, a Shirley Card would be used to eliminate anything out of the ordinary. So where did the name…

When choosing a face wash many people just pick the product that tells them what they want to hear; but if the consumers do not know what chemicals they are using on their face, then how do they know that the product will indeed leave their skin free of acne. Consumers need to be more informed about the product that they are using on their skin. Clearasil UltraⓇ Rapid Action Daily Face Wash is distributed by Reckitt Benckiser LLC out of Parsippany, New Jersey. This product is sold as a fast…

At Frontier airlines Sue and Richard and the other employees were only given 7 minutes to clean around 200 seats. In my Opinion, the definition of clean is to sterilize it by using some type of cleaning solution to remove the germs left behind from the previous passengers. After all they were sitting, sleeping, and eating in the same seat from about 5 hours to anywhere to 14 hours and up. I think some type of actual cleaning needs to be in place instead of just picking up trash and maybe giving…

Dorothea Lange’s “Unhealthy Lifestyle” demonstrates the unsanitary and unhealthy living conditions of the those who worked on a Migrant workers’ camp. The photograph shows an untidy migrant workers camp in Marysville,California with a man working on something. Other than the one man the place seems to be abandoned. All throughout the camp, there are small shacks, dead trees, and a bunch of scattered trash. In the distance, all that can be seen is more shacks and dead trees. Some of the shacks…

proper hand hygiene is proven to prevent outbreaks in healthcare facilities, reduce transmission of antimicrobial resistant organisms, and reduce overall infection rates Therefore, good hand hygiene applies to everyone, but significantly to children since they usually touch contaminated surfaces and fail to wash their hand regularly all because of to their playful nature and their…

on hospital rooms that had MRSA patients in them or patient’s that had previously had MRSA. Some patients were in contact isolation (68 rooms); therefore, healthcare workers had to wear gowns and gloves while in the rooms as well as practice hand hygiene, while other were in a noncontact room (32 rooms). Five surfaces (call button, bedrail, tray table, bathroom handrail, and toilet seat) were sampled in each room after the patient was discharged but before disinfection of the room could occur.…

Dental Hygiene Choosing a career can be very difficult, especially when many are doing so at such a young age. When I first started looking into becoming a dental hygienist, it was really something I had never thought I would consider. I knew I wanted to be around people and be able to help them. This led me to going into the healthcare field. From there I leaned more towards becoming a nurse, which I decided after a little experience, was not for me. I still wanted to be able to help people and…

Observation #2 Teacher and Child Interaction This observation is focused on the teacher/child interaction of the preschool program at Pasadena City College Child Development Center. There were twenty-five children in the room, aged from two and half to four years old, and four teachers were there on the day I observed. There were four to five children assigned to each teacher. On this observation, the focus is mainly on Ms.Katie. When the observation started, the children were coming back to…