Caring-for-Your-Hair-Mouthand-Skin

1. Caring for Your Hair,
Mouth,and Skin

2. Your mouth contains the tongue. It is the sense
organ for taste. Your mouth also contains your teeth.
You use your teeth for chewing so you can swallow
your food easily.

3. Proper Care of the
Mouth and Teeth

4. Proper care of your mouth and teeth is important
to good health. When you take good care of your
mouth and teeth, you will avoid having tooth decay.
You will not also have bad breath.

5. 1. Do not eat foods that are
too hot or too cold.

6. 2. Avoid eating too much
sweet foods.

7. 3. Brush your teeth after
every meal, or at least two
times a day.

8. 4. Always floss your teeth before
sleeping. Dental floss is a
special kind of thread. It is used
to remove food and plaque from
parts of your teeth that your
toothbrush cannot reach. Plaque
is a colorless film on teeth formed
by and contains germs.

9. 5. Go to the dentist at least
two times a year.

10. Proper Care of the
Mouth and Teeth

11. Having healthy skin and hair is also important to
having good health. You can avoid having some
medical problems by taking good care of your skin
and hair.

12. 1. Take a bath daily.

13. 2. Wash your face in the
morning and at night.

14. 3. Avoid touching your skin
with your hands, especially
when they are dirty.

15. 4. Eat foods that are god for
your skin and hair.

16. 5. Avoid playing under the sun
from ten o’clock in the morning
to four o’clock in the
afternoon.
Sunburn is the reddening of
the skin caused by too much
exposure to sunlight.

17. 6. Always comb your hair.
7. Have your hair trimmed regularly.

18. Scabies and Pediculosis
If you do not take good care of your skin
and hair, they can get infected. Scabies
and pediculosis are just two of these
infections.

19. Scabies is caused by
small creatures called mites. A
sign of scabies is itching, which
is worst at night. Scabies also
causes rashes on the hands,
wrists, arms, and stomach area.

20. Pediculosis is the
condition when the human
body and hair is infected with
small insects called lice. An
itchy scalp is usually the first
sign that a person has head
lice.