If you have trench mouth your dentist may recommend taking steps to improve your oral hygiene which can help with symptoms and prevent a recurrence. This entails: Brushing teeth twice a day ...

all in conditions that led to trench foot and, eventually, amputations. Poor hygiene led to infection and sickness, and for Scots, lice crept into their kilts, which spread trench fever.

Due to poor hygiene, overcrowding and a lack of fresh clothing, many soldiers would find themselves infested. In some cases, the lice spread an infection known as ‘trench fever’. One way of ...