LD 206 – Principles of supporting an individual to maintain personal hygiene Most people will maintain personal hygiene except in illness, substance abuse, or dementia. Dementia can cause a change in personal hygiene habits. People may forget to wash or change their clothes, or they may forget how to keep clean. Carers may find these stressful but different strategies can help. A person with dementia may need help with going to the toilet, getting dressed, brushing their teeth and grooming hair and nails.
If the incident is involving a work colleague the accident book must be completed. Unit 306 3.3 Explain why it is important for emergency first aid tasks only be carried out by qualified first aiders. If you attempt to deal with an emergency situation without proper training you could make the situation much worse and even cause death. You could put yourself, colleagues and others at risk of harm. Unit 306 3.4 Explain the consequences of failing to follow emergency first aid.
Finally we have stress, everybody at some stages of your life will get stressed it’s how different people deal with it and that is the key. Some people deal with it from having a nice relaxing massage as this relaxes your body and makes your stress levels fall a amount of 45% said that they have a massage in relation to stress like issues that they feel. Conclusion This Graph shows the proven benefits of massage, this proves that massage works and plays a big deal on the Health and Well-Being of the person that is having a Massage, as a result of having a massage it will help. It could be in any way of these above. You also need to take into account all the factors of your age and how many times that you go for a massage.
Mu 2.8 contribute tithe support of the positive environments for children and young people 3.1 explain how effectively care for childrens and young peoples skin hair and teeth. It's part of children's learning about self care and personal hygiene. We can help them do this by encouraging to wash hands before and after eating, after using the toilet and washing their faces with individual flannels. It's also important to teach them the difference between hot and cold water such as red means hit and blue means cold on taps to prevent them burning themselves whilst at the same never leaving a child unattended with water. Babies are different from children they need their nappies changed regularly to prevent any sores or infections and moisturising the skin well.
Bullies may use bad personal hygiene as a way of abusing their victims, using social embarrassment as a weapon.Poor personal hygiene can have significant implications on the success of job applications or the chance of promotion; no company wants to be represented by someone who does not appear to be able to look after themselves.Many sufferers of mental illnesses like dementia or depression may need extra support and encouragement with their personal hygiene. Their carers should make sure that they have everything they need and assist them when permitted and when
Teeth- Another effect of poor hygiene is bad breath which is lack of brushing this allows bacteria to grow or having food in between teeth can start to rot over time so leading to bad breath. Going to denisit regular basis helps to maintain good teeth care. Hands - Washing hands is important regularly throughout the day to ensure bacteria is kept to a minimum as hands carry lots of germs and bacteria which can lead to a number of illness . You should always use hot water and soap. Outcome 2 Be able to support individuals to maintain personal hygiene 3 Support the individual to develop awareness of the effects of poor hygiene Explain to them in importance of good hygiene and how poor hygiene can have a important affect on thier well being.
Unit CU298P - Principles of safeguarding and protection in health and social care. Understand ways to reduce the likelihood of abuse. 1 To reduce the likely hood of abuse you need to talk about. Peron centred values dignity respect choice, to discuss with that person what they want how they want it and when they want it. For example they may always have a bath but perhaps that day they may want a shower instead......or they may always have a bath Monday, Wednesday and Friday but fancy a bath on a Thursday or in the evening instead of a morning!
Poor personal hygiene can also lead to low self esteem, low confidence and leave people feeling isolated and depressed. Outcome 2 Be able to support individuals to maintain personal hygiene 2.1 support an individual to understand factors that contribute to good personal hygiene By helping the individual to understand that in order to have good personal hygiene, the individual must have regular wash and bath/shower. This includes washing individuals hair, wearing clean clothes and keeping nails clean. by telling them to wash their hands after using the toilet can help individual to prevent any infections that may affect them. 2.2 address personal hygiene issues with the individual in a sensitive manner without imposing own value To give if the service user the choice they would like to have a wash/shower/bath and when they would to have one.
I also offered the service user choice of using the commode or the toilet and she chose the commode. I and the service user agreed the service user’s preferences for me to give him some time to himself whilst using the commode and when having his bath how he can be supported by me at intervals when he requires any support with washing his hands and transferring back from the commode as well as with washing his back and feet which he found difficult to reach. After establishing with the service user the level of care and preferences he preferred , I proceeded with the personal care. 2.1 Support the individual to understand the reasons for hygiene and safety precautions 2.2 Use protective equipment, protective clothing and hygiene techniques to minimise the risk of infection 2.5 Ensure safe disposal of waste materials I then discussed with the service user why it was important in terms of infection control for him to wash his hands before assisting him and then using an apron and gloves to support him with his personal care. I then asked the service user how having a bath
(U.S. EPA, 2005,para 12) The reason for using these disinfectants in the water systems like chlorine and chloramine is because they are effective and inexpensive and as it travels through the pipes it continues to disinfect traveling to the homes and businesses. (Flouride, 2012, para4).Now knowing this fact is the reason why the tap water has a distinguish taste to it and after a while traveling through the pipelines the lines tends to get rusty and gets into the homes and businesses and that is bad for the health. (Water and Health series, Bottled water basics, 2005,para,