Articles · Topic
Articles about Hygiene
17 articles across 3 sections
Section
Self-Reliance
Body Care and Injury Prevention, Fitness for Preparedness
Skin, feet, teeth, eyes, and hearing. Injury prevention for the real chores emergencies produce, shoveling, lifting, ladder work, and sustained outdoor tasks. How to keep your body working when it ne
Hygiene and Sanitation, Medical Preparedness
How hygiene and sanitation change when water is disrupted, facilities are unavailable, or normal household routines cannot be maintained, and the health risks of getting it wrong.
Hygiene During Emergencies
Emergency hygiene as illness prevention, handwashing when water is limited, personal hygiene without normal access, waste disposal, shelter hygiene, and vulnerable populations.
Information Hygiene During Emergencies
How to verify emergency alerts, evaluate what you
Public Health Basics, Respond, Skills
Public health basics for household preparedness, correct handwashing technique and timing, household illness isolation, food safety during power outages, oral rehydration solution, wound care and inf
Public Health, Medical Preparedness
Household-level public health preparedness: disease prevention, vaccination documentation, outbreak response, and the steps every household can take to protect community health during emergencies.
Staying Safe in a Disaster Shelter
Surface Disinfection During Disruptions
The correct CDC bleach ratios for disinfecting counters, food prep areas, and shared surfaces during an emergency. What to mix, how long to leave it, and the mistakes that make it dangerous or useless.
Water Dispensing and Transport: From Storage to Glass
Four ways to get water out of a sealed drum, the transport containers that carry it to your kitchen, and the hygiene rules that keep dispensed water safe.
When the Power Stays Off: A Household Timeline for Extended Outages
What changes in your household after 72 hours without power, and what to do about it. A day-by-day timeline covering food safety, air quality, water, hygiene, fuel, and morale across a two-week outage.
Section
Preparedness
I Think I Need to Stock Up. What Should I Do?
A calm buying sequence for households that feel the need to stock up: inventory what you already have, choose a duration (72 hours, two weeks, or ninety days), fill the gaps in priority order (water, medications, food, light and phone power, hygiene, cash), stop when the checklist holds, and avoid the common mistakes that waste the most money. Covers apartment stocking, the stop point, why skills and savings outperform storage past ninety days, and links to every step in the buying order.
Emergency Sanitation and Continence
When water stops or caregiving services are interrupted. Portable sanitation, continence supply planning, hygiene without running water, and maintaining dignity during a multi-day disruption.
Emergency Sanitation When Plumbing Stops
What to do when the toilet stops working and you live in an apartment with no yard. Emergency toilet setup, waste containment, hygiene without running
Pandemic: What to Do When You Have Done Nothing to Prepare
Running a household through a pandemic with no preparation: a two-week pantry, a sick room, hygiene, isolation, routines, and income protection over months. A complete action plan drawn from COVID-19, 1918, Ebola, and SARS.
The 9 Top Public-Health Readiness Essentials
Nine public health essentials stocked to a two-week standard, from soap and respirators to the home care plan and pre-chosen information sources.
Tier Three: Emergency Sanitation When the Water Stops
Items 21 through 30: a complete emergency toilet system, hand hygiene, and two weeks of supplies for a household with no water pressure and no waste collection.