Abstract

As children have poor immunity, many children suffer from fever, cough, dysentery, stomach ache, worms and other gastrointestinal diseases. Major problems with health are stomach infections and diarrhea due to lack of personal hygiene. Methodology: Facility based cross sectional study to compare the status of personal hygiene among children attending Anganwadi centers in urban, rural and tribal areas of Udaipur district through two stage sampling technique. Result: 52.1% of total children (3-6years) had teeth or gum infection. 36.1%, 36.8% and 22.5% of total children (3-6 years) washes their hand after using toilet, before eating food and after wiping or blowing nose respectively. Conclusion: Poor status of personal hygiene is more in tribal and rural children than urban children

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