Coronavirus: Breathe, Clean
In times of Corona, the mask is part of everyday life. Who has not covered the mouth and nose, may often go on a Bus driving to the supermarket.
To other people – and a bit of a self – prior to a possible Ansteckungmit Sars-CoV-2 protect.
The so-called everyday mask of cotton is, but this is only a building block, in addition to a sufficient distance, to the right, coughing and Sneezing, as well as regular, thorough hand washing.
However, the practical handling of the piece of fabric is a tricky one: Where does the everyday mask, if you don’t want to put about on the sidewalk in a business all the time?
And how to clean them for now – washing machine, oven, Ironing Board? A infection’s Lodge and a Hygienist to provide answers to important questions.
How do you make the mask?
In the ideal case it works like this: You has washed his hands thoroughly and then the mask. While you do not pay attention to the handle inside.
However, this requires that you set it up at home and about on the way to the supermarket the entire time in the face.
Can’t make the effort, and the mask by wet already pretty strong – what is so good.
Who would you put on the spot, it should carry the covering in a plastic bag instead of in your pants pocket – or, at least, in a bag, in the you don’t grow normally into it, advises Peter Walger.
The speaker of the management Board of the German society for hospital hygiene, emphasizes: “The inside must be protected.”
The best thing is to kennedie Situation in which you had to wear them – and you keep all the time.
Can dangle the mask around the neck?
It is often to see if you have the mask just need pull a lot of people under the chin. There, dangling loosely around the neck.
The Federal centre for health education (BZgA) advises not to let the mask hang.Prof. Janne Vehreschild sees it more as not a Problem.
“From the pure virus infection point of view, it makes little difference whether I wear the mask in a plastic bag or around the neck hanging,” explained the scientists from the German centre for infection research, heads a research group of the Cologne and Frankfurt researchers, who studied about risk factors of the Coronavirus-induced disease Covid-19.
What helps if a Breathing falls under the fabric hard?
The should not be. However, many feel after a period of wearing a kind of oppression, and feel that you have a hard time Breathing. Actually, the classic cotton masks are so permeable that it is not including to a lack of oxygen, says Vehreschild.
A possible explanation of the infection Loge, nevertheless: “I think it is more likely that the Breathing is very aware and active is to be experienced – and one imagines, then, perhaps, a kind of breathlessness.”
His advice: Generally speaking, when Breathing through the mask, resting a preserve and not a particularly strong or exhale. “This can lead to Hyperventilation.” So rather rather calm and breathe shallow and not so much focus – but with other things to deal with.
Can be the reason for respiratory problems?
Tightly woven fabrics are suitable according to the Federal Institute for drugs and medical devices (BfArM) is better for the daily mask as a light-woven, but you should be able to breathe underneath, of course. “You can check the permeability by laying the mask on the lips and see if you can breathe,” advises Vehreschild.
“Blow here strong, so that air comes through, it is certainly the wrong fabric.”
In business, this is not seen so much – but just who sews the mask itself, this Test can be done easily before you take the needle and thread.
And how the mask is clean again?
“At a minimum of 60 degrees in the washing machine washing, or, alternatively, you can cook for about ten minutes in a pot of water are the safest methods,” explains Hygienist Peter Walger.
For the variant of the cooking pot of the mask material of the cooking needs to be fixed, what is cotton in the rule. But they were still processing other materials, such as rubber, an intermediate layer, or certain metals, you should educate yourself on whether you can cook, the expert said. Generally, 60 degrees is: “and it is virustötend.”
It can be done differently?
Yes, but that is only partially advisable. “Everything else, which is sometimes recommended for: oven, microwave, Ironing – this is perhaps only an idea, if you can’t wash the mask,” says Walger. “But it is also uncertain whether the same temperature is,” he adds.
The masks could not hang in the oven or in the microwave for free, would be maybe on a sheet pan. “And what is especially important not to clean the masks as a result.”
Masks with wire hangers belong in General, not in the microwave – here is a danger of fire. By the way: “Medical masks, such as the mouth, nose protector, or FFP, can mask and do not wash them. It is strictly for medical-use are,” says Walger.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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