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The role of hot water in maintaining good hygiene
The importance of good hygiene cannot be overestimated. Good hygiene which entails keeping the hands, nails, hair, and body clean crucial for stopping the spread of germs from entering the body to cause illness.
Good hygiene involves the daily routine tasks of brushing the teeth and flossing to maintain good dental care, washing the hair regularly, and also taking daily baths with hot or warm water, especially when the body has been exposed to dirt and germs in the cause of work or play.
Another important aspect of hygiene is the washing of hands especially in this pandemic season which ensures that the hands are germ-free and clean as often as possible.
Bathing with warm water from a good source of heated water allows the expansion of the blood vessels to promote better blood circulation in the body especially to areas of injuries on the skin for proper healing. This enhances the healing process, allowing for bruises on the skin to heal faster thereby preventing infection.
Experts also opine that washing the hair with hot water opens the pores of the scalp for deep cleansing and also allows for the scalp to absorb oils and moisture good for hair growth.
Cosmetic dermatologists also acknowledge that warm water promotes healthier skin and encourages hair growth and vitality while people who have aged gracefully attest to the drinking of hot water and lemon to help in the fight against the body’s internal and external aging processes.
Washing of the hands with warm water especially after touching a face mask is essential as well as washing of all cloth face masks with hot or warm water. Cleaning napkins with hot water and dishes with warm water will help maintain a clean and hygienic environment in your home giving little room for viruses and bacteria to thrive.
Washing clothes, bathtubs and floors with warm water from water heaters are also known to not only clean them more effectively but weaken and eliminate bacterial and viral elements on these surfaces.
In our everyday lives, hot water helps us maintain a hygienic environment.
Research shows that bathing with hot water makes for a cleaner and more thorough bathing experience. This is because hot water melts out the dirt and oil from the skin more effectively than cold water.
Hot water is more effective in washing dishes and clothes as well as surfaces and mopping floors. Hot water is not just a luxury but a necessity in every home to maintain hygiene and ensure cleanliness, hence water heaters have become an indispensable and must-have gadget in every home.
Hot water in most ways has helped us live a more hygienic life. Taking hot baths at various stages of our lives have helped us relax better while helping our skins and hair grow and grow healthily.
Hot water has helped us clean our environment more effectively thereby helping us live healthier and more hygienic lives. It is, therefore, advisable to invest in quality water heaters such as Ariston water heater, et cetera, to keep your home clean and hygienic.
By Bernice Ama Asiadey
One of the issues we have been grappling with as a nation is corruption, and it has had such a devastating effect on our national development. I have been convinced that until morality becomes the foundation upon which our governance system is built, we can never go forward as a nation.
Our traditional practices, which have shaped our cultural beliefs, have always espoused values that have kept us along the straight and the narrow and have preserved our societies since ancient times.
These are values that frown on negative habits like stealing, cheating, greediness, selfishness, etc. Our grandparents have told us stories of societies where stealing was regarded as so shameful that offenders, when caught, have on a number of instances committed suicide.
In fact, my mother told me of a story where a man who was living in the same village as her mother (my grandmother), after having been caught stealing a neighbour’s cockerel, out of shame committed suicide on a mango tree. Those were the days that shameful acts were an abomination.
Tegare worship, a traditional spiritual worship during which the spirit possesses the Tegare Priest and begins to reveal secrets, was one of the means by which the society upheld African values in the days of my grandmother and the early childhood days of my mother.
Those were the days when the fear of being killed by Tegare prevented people from engaging in anti-social vices. These days, people sleeping with other people’s wives are not uncommon.
These wrongful behaviour was not countenanced at all by Tegare. One was likely going to lose his life on days that Tegare operates, and so unhealthy habits like coveting your neighbour’s wife was a taboo.
Stealing of other people’s farm produce, for instance, could mean certain death or incapacitation of the whole or part of the body in the full glare of everybody. People realised that there were consequences for wrongdoing, and this went a long way to motivate the society to adhere to right values.
Imagine a President being sworn into office and whoever administers the oath says, “Please say this after me: I, Mr. …., do solemnly swear by God, the spirits of my ancestors and the spirits ruling in Ghana, that should I engage in corrupt acts, may I and my family become crippled, may madness become entrenched in my family, may incurable sicknesses and diseases be my portion and that of my family, both immediate and extended.”
Can you imagine a situation where a few weeks afterwards the President goes to engage in corrupt acts and we hear of his sudden demise or incapacitation and confessing that he engaged in corrupt acts before passing or before the incapacitation—and the effect it will have on his successor? I believe we have to critically examine this option to curb corruption.
My grandmother gave me an eyewitness account of one such encounter where a woman died instantly after the Tegare Priest had revealed a wrong attitude she had displayed during the performance on one of the days scheduled for Tegare spirit manifestation.
According to her story, the Priest, after he had been possessed by the spirit, declared that for what the woman had done, he would not forgive her and that he would kill. Instantly, according to my grandmother, the lady fell down suddenly and she died—just like what happened to Ananias and his wife Sapphira in Acts Chapter 5.
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