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Human Biology Form 5 Science

Chapter 2: PERSONAL HYGIENE

ALCOHOLISM

It the act of taking alcoholic drinks in excess quantity. They drink contains a chemical like ethanol which is harmful to the health and has the following side effects on the individual.

SIDE EFFECT ON INDIVIDUALS

  • It wilding the blood vessel as such it causes the blood to flow to the skin
  • Alcohol causes numbress and paralysis limbs
  • It reduces aptitude and can lead to malnutrition
  • Ir destroy liver cells and can lead to liver cirbosis , liverstone and liver cancer
  • It causes stomach and gastric ulcers
  • Alcohol people have confusion, loss of memory and can even excrete on their self
  • The are usually violent, short sided
  • Alcohol usually leads to sterility in pregnancy
  • Baby born by pregnant woman taken alcohol it not really huterligent

EFFECT OF ALCOHOL ON THE SOCIETY

  • Lead to criminality: alcohol increases high crimerate in the society
  • Lead to family problem: when  a man drink to much he prefere to used his money on alcohol
  • Accident: such as when a man drank a lot and after then drive that lead to accident
  • Lead to poverty: alcohol drinker may use their money for drink and cigarette
  • Sexual promiscuity: excess of alcohol lead to sexual abuse to children.
  • Social rejection: drunker  can be rejected by an individual due to breaths of a drunker
  • Dead of intellectuals

DRUGS

a drug is defined as a substance which changes or influences the way the body works. It modifies the activity of any living tissue ways of getting drugs into the body. Oral through the mouth

By infection and less commonly the vagina and the anus those drugtake through the vagina and anus are known as suppositories. Most drugs are known as medecin prescribe drugs which are use to kill diseases

Now this day many people use drugs in the way not prescribe by doctors as well it known as drug abuse

Apart from the curative effects of drugs , drugs can also be used to produce undesirable effects  

TYPES OF DRUGS

  • Marijuana- cocaine: this drugs are use against the law and it obtain by a cannabis plant. It causes depression,unistpainess, hallucination. It remove this desire to work one be usefull
  • Opium : it is obtain from a juice of opium it contain morphine, morphine has been use for medically to ease sivier pain
  • Heroine; it made upon morphine. It can be injected directly or indirectly in the win or under the skin. Addicts and also swallow or shift, the harmfull effects of heroine are loss of intersest in food, chronic constipation, increase in crime and violence
  • Cocaine: it obtain from a cocapignt, it causes stomach paints and difficulties to sleep, it also causes the hallucination, difficulties in breathing but can lead to death

CLOTHING

Clothing or cloths are items that are warm to cover and protect the body

WHY DO WE PUT  ON CLOTH

  • To cover our necketness
  • To make our look attractive or decency
  • Esthetics that is beautiful or to decurate the body
  • For insulation of the body i.e to keep the body warm during cold weather or to avoid excessive heat loss during hot weather.
  • It prevent the entering bacteria in the body
  • For cultural indentification( traditional cloth)
  • For status and prestige
  • For professional identification e.g uniform
  • For protection against sun burns as a result of protong exposure to sunlight or U.V rays
par Claude Foumtum