What Will You Do When The Toilet Paper Is Gone?

By Prepforshtf The Importance of Personal Hygiene during a Crisis Personal hygiene is as critical if not more so during a crisis as it is at anytime. Keeping your hands and body clean is one of the most important things you can do to prevent the spread of diseases and bacteria. Just because the electricity is off and you have to boil or otherwise disinfect your water is no excuse for forgoing good sanitation practices particularly when it comes to human waste. During the 16th century in Europe, so-called medical experts thought that bathing was dangerous because according to them water, warm water especially, opened the pores on the skin and allowed diseases to enter the body. Up until this proclamation, bathing was typically discouraged anyways, but not actually banned, because it led to immoral thoughts and removing the clothes to bathe was not recommended and in some cases not allowed. Disease was rampant and yet people did not bathe and wore their clothes until they rotted off in tatters.



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