How to Maintain Your Hygiene in Treks


Life in mountains, especially when you go for trekking out of your comfort zone becomes difficult, as moving from the city in the drastically changed environment is never easy to get acclimatisation.
Vanity does not last in treks with lower temperature, as all you do is save yourself from the winter right?  He is the strictest one, who never let others play, and enjoy even make one lazy to take care of once body. But do you think it is okay to compromise your hygiene there in the spine-tingling winters, where Goosebumps follows without astonishment? No!!
Being an explorer you try all those places with huge adventure, but not taking proper care will make you like stale piece of vegetable with a disastrous smell.  
In all the treks that are around more than two days, it becomes arduous to maintain your personal hygiene because that winter demon won’t let you get active, where he wins, and you lose by giving up on your body.
Though it is hard to maintain your sanitary in the mountains at the lower temperature, therefore there are few things you can apply while in the hills to keep your body hygienic with ease. 

1) Bathing at a temperature less than zero degrees is a challenge in itself, but to keep the body healthy and active and maintain the hygiene what trekkers can do is have a dry bath. If you are lucky enough, you might find a lake or a pool and if the weather conditions allow you can take a dip and clean off the dirt or else, you will have to go for the dry bath. All you got to do is clean your body with wet wipes or a damp towel before you get into a fresh pair of clothes and also make sure that you do not throw away the wipes, put them into a  bag and dispose of once you are back from the trek.

2) In the case of women, Disposing of the used pads and tampons in a bag as they need to clean the genital area thoroughly to ensure hygiene. For this, they can either use toilet paper or wet wipes or avoid rashes and diseases.

3) Defecating becomes a serious issue and needs to be taken proper care of. Defecating on campus sites should be done away from the water source, and the faeces should be disposed of off correctly.

4) Disposing of the biodegradable waste by burying them into the soil and by disposing of the non-biodegradable waste on arriving home at the end of the trek.
Maintaining hygiene at such treks is difficult but if ignored can be a threat to life.

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