Personal Health and Hygiene

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Personal Health and Hygiene
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Acne

• Where does it occur?
• Face (T-zone)
• Back
• Neck
• Shoulders
• Upper arms
• Chest
• Buttocks
• Groin

• What is it?
• Excess sebum mixing with dead skin bacteria
  clogging a pore causing infection.

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Acne

• Causes?
• Hormones!
• Androgen
• Poor diet
• Heredity
• Gender

• Types
• Blackheads Whiteheads
• Pimple/Zits
• Cysts

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What contributes to Acne?

• Too much washing or scrubbing
• Picking or popping
• Tanning
• Sweating

• Touching skin
• Clothing
• Cosmetics
• Hair
• Environment
• Medication

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Warts

• Causes
• Human Papillomavirus
• A virus!!
• Through a crack in the skin.

• Types
• Common
• Plantar
• Filiform
• Flat

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How are warts treated?

• Go away on their own
• OTC medication
• Freezing
• Electrified needle to cut it away
• Burning with laser or chemicals

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Fungal Infections

• Protection
• Wear flip flops in locker rooms
• Open toed shoes
• dry off
• Dont share shoes

• Types
• Ring worm
• Athletes foot
• Jock itch

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Freckles
Freckles are clusters of concentrated melanin.

• 2 Types
• Ephelides lighter brown, genetic trait, fade in
  winter
• Lentigines darker, dont fade in winter
• Known as sunburn freckles

• Causes
• Genetics
• Sun

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Moles

• Melanocytes (cells in the skin) grow in a cluster
  with tissue surrounding them.

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Skin Cancer Types

• Basal cell carcinomas
• Squamous cell carcinomas
• Malignant melanoma
• Cancer of the melanocyte cells

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What to Look for - Skin Cancer
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Protection from Skin Cancer(sunburn, wrinkles)
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Eye Infections

• Prevention
• Avoid touching or rubbing your eyes.
• Transferring germs from fingers to eyes.

• Pink Eye??
• Also known as conjunctivitis
• Highly contagious
• Dont share personal items

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Tooth Disease

• Most common type
• cavities

• Causes
• Bacteria that dissolves the minerals that protect
  and make up teeth.

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Tooth Disease Prevention

• Eating lots of sugary foods
• Not cleaning well
• Genetically prone

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Gum Disease

• Prevention
• Eat healthy
• Brush
• Floss
• Describe how should you floss your teeth?

• What is it?
• A condition where bacteria that live in plaque
  infect and destroy the gum and bones that hold
  the teeth.

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Hair and Scalp Problems

• Lice
• Insects that live on human hair and feed on the
  blood from the scalp
• Dont share personal items.

• Dandruff
• Flakes of dry skin from the scalp.
• Causes fungus, stress, hormones, genetics,
  illness, infrequent shampooing, unsure

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Calorie

• A unit of heat energy or the amount of energy
  in food.
• Energy the ability for the body to function.
• 3,500 calories 1 lb. of body weight
• 1 GRAM about the weight of a raisin.
• 1 GRAM of protein or carbs 4 calories
• 1 GRAM of fat 9 calories
• 1 GRAM of alcohol 7 calories

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Energy Requirements of the Body

• SIZE - The bigger you are, the more calories
  are necessary to maintain weight.
• AGE - The older you are, the less energy you
  need.
• ACTIVITY LEVEL - The more active you are, the
  more energy you need.
• GENDER - Based on body size, males need more
  energy.

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Energy Requirements of the Body

• RATE OF GROWTH - How fast you grow indicates
  how much energy you need to grow.
• INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES - Basic Metabolism - The
  rate at which the body uses energy.
• EFFICIENCY IN THE DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
• ENVIRONMENT - The colder it is, the more
  calories you use. Extreme temperatures
• PHYSIOLOGICAL - Illness can change calorie use.