This face mask error is worse than no mask at all
This common goof can make you vulnerable to Covid.
More than a year in the coronavirus pandemic, some of us are experiencing a "fatigue of Covid" and might have attempted to try to be a little less vigilant about some of the best practices to prevent infection. Face masks, worn properly covering the nose and mouth - are a must. But if you have seen more people allowing their masks to slip under their nose, you are not alone.Wear a mask below your nose is more than incomplete protection against the virus - it can be as bad as not to wear mask at all. It's because research suggestsCOVID-19 [Feminine Between the body through the nose first, because the nasal tissue is more susceptible to the virus. Leave the exposed nose is a valuable protection where you need it more and more. Read it to know how to protect yourself and to ensure your health and health of others, do not miss theseWithout signs that you have already had coronavirus.
The nose = a superhilière de Covid?
"We have studied these data for less than a year. However, until now, it suggests that the primary attack of the coronavirus is in the nose, in the nasal epithelium, which is the skin layer of cells loaded with The expression of smells, "Leo Nissola, MD, told us in December. "It seems that virus aggressions support cells and stem cells in the nose." This could be what causes the loss of smell and the taste of many people experiment with Covid.
Last summer, a study at theUniversity of North Carolina in Chapel HillI found that cells of the nose are more vulnerable to the coronavirus than the cells of the throat or lungs. The researchers also found that people emit more COVID-19 virus when they breathed their noses than by their mouths.
Since the door mask is a double-sized street - we wear them to protect us from the inhalation of the virus and protect others from the virus that we can unintentionally transmit when we expire-leave a mask inflamed below the Nose is a double failure.
The good news: the conclusions of researchers on how the virus enters the body could lead to more treatments. "If the nose is the initial dominant site from which pulmonary infections are seeded, the widespread use of masks to protect the nasal passages, as well as all therapeutic strategies that reduce the virus in the nose, such as nasal irrigation. Or antiviral nasal aerosols, could be beneficial, "said Dr. Richard Boucher, co-author of UNC study.
But in the meantime, keep wearing this mask - common sense.
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How to survive the pandemic
As for yourself, do everything you can to prevent you from installing and spread-Covid-19 in the first place:Carry a face maskBe tested if you think you have coronavirus, avoid crowds (and bars and evenings of the house), practice social distance, do only run essential races, wash your hands regularly, disinfect frequently affected areas and to cross this healthiest pandemic, do not miss these35 places you are most likely to catch Covid.
