Can
wearing a face mask protect against the coronavirus?
COVID-19
spreads from person to person via small respiratory droplets. These are
generate when infected people sneezes, cough. You can contact the virus if you
breath in these droplets. It can be on various object or surface and than
touching eyes, nose or mouth can leads to infection. To prevent these types of
infection you should use the face mask.
Types
of mask: If we hear
about face mask for COVID-19 prevention. First thing we should thing that which
mask should use for it. Which mask is better for it? Because here we have types
of these mask and way to use it.
For coronavirus prevention there are three
types of mask.
1. Homemade cloth face mask
2. Surgical mask
3. N95 respiratory
Let’s
see each of them in little more detail below-
Homemade
cloth face masks-
To
prevent the spread of the coronavirus from people without symptoms, the centers
for disease control and prevention (CDC) is recommending that people can wear
cloth face mask while in outside or anywhere else. like cloth face mask in
public setting especially in areas of significant community based transmission,
such as grocery stores and medical stores. Don’t put cloth face mask on small
child. Or people who have problems with their breathing, unconscious and eho
are unable to remove their own cloth face mask.
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| Homemade face mask |
NOTE :wash cloth mask after every use. While removing, be careful not to touch your eyes, nose and mouth. Wash hands with alcohol based sanitizer immediately after removing the mask.
Benefits
of homemade face mask
1. Cloth face mask cam made at home form
normal cloths, so how much you want you can make and use.
2. It makes lower risk of people form
transmitted ant symptoms.
3. This is better than not using any
mask, and giving some protection.
Risk
of home made masks
some
times it provide less security, homemade mask offer less of protection than
surgical mask or respirators. They don’t replace or reduce the need for other
protective equipment.
Surgical
mask-
Surgical
mask are disposable, little loose-fitting face masks that covers your nose ,
mouth and chin they are typically used to protect the droplets, prevent the
spread of germs, infections from others.
Surgical
masks can vary in design, but the mask is flat and rectangular in shape with pleats.
The top of the mask has a metal strips that can be formed to your nose to
protect from infected air. The elastic bands or long straight ties help hold
the surgical mask in place while you are wearing it.
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| Surgical face mask |
N95
respiratory-
An
N95 respiratory is a more tight and fitting face mask. And due to tight fitting
it van become uncomfortable and stuffy and making people difficult to wear for
long periods of time. Incondition of sprays and large droplets, this
respiratory can also filter out 95 percent of very small virus and bacteria. It
designed to form a tight seal to your face and the elastic bands help hold it
without irritation to your face. In some mask there is a attachment to help
breathing and buildup of heat and humidity. If the mask does not seal effectively
to your face , you won’t receive better proctection.
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| N95 facemask |
Other
ways to prevent COVID-19
Remember
that there are others ways to besides using face mask to prevent coronavirus.
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Cleaning
hands: using soap and
water and alcohol based sanitizer.
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Avoid
social distancing:
avoid contact with people who are infected or not, stay home.
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Being
conscious of your face-
touch your mouth and face after clean hand wash.
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Using
mask- before using
mask inspect it for any hole or tears. Locate the metal strips in mask. This is
top of the mask. And avoid to touching it.
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Use
gloves- while
touching any surface or going outside use mask and dispose it after use and
wash your hand.
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