Wearing a mask can prevent people infected swine flu ??
Posted on | September 20, 2009 | No Comments
Masks in swine flu epidemic period can play a certain role of prevention. But what people need to wear mouth-muffle, in what occasion to wear mouth-muffle, how to wear a face mask to prevent, many people are not very clear.
(1) some occasions don’t wear mouth-muffle: to people in street wearing a mask against infectious diseases. April 2003, guangzhou center for disease control, the experts on people wear a face mask to prevent SARS, and will not cause psychological fear, pay attention to wash hands is the important personal protective measures. Some experts think: wear masks and can effectively prevent people infected swine flu, public fear itself will cause harm to health. But if people wear masks feel safe, wearing also just as well. In the suburb park, go shopping, or when it is not necessary to wear masks.
(2) patients with close contact with the people should wear a face mask: April 2003, SARS epidemic in Beijing city, the main reason is the medical personnel to start people infected with SARS cases unwary, personal protective measures, contact first SARS patients’ medical personnel are not wear mouth-muffle, goggles, glove, feet, also not to wear gowns, results in a case of SARS patients treated by medical personnel. SARS patients in a hospital, the stay in the hospital with her family and to the hospital to visit the SARS patients who are easy to be infected. The fact proves, a person infected swine flu can be spread through close contact and close respiratory tract, therefore, paramedics, people infected swine flu patients and families of patients often later in close contact with the people need to be personal protective. The hospital worker, cleaners and ambulance drivers, elevator work these have access to a swine flu patients infected staff has the possibility. In addition, to the hospital the elderly suffering from chronic disease, also had better wear masks.
(3) not all mask to prevent: mask can generally be divided into two kinds of civil and dressings. The four layers, civil, and 6 August 12 cotton masks, contains the chemical composition, add a layer blending mask of activated carbon black mask and cartoon of 1 to 3 layers cloth, of which only 12 layer mask mask can prevent pathogens of yarn, wearing masks cannot prevent other.
The twelve, 16 and 18 and 20 layer of cotton masks, filter mask, accord with standard of FFP2 or N95 respirators and treatment of activated carbon filter body wear the disposable respirator, surgical masks, disposable “pig” mask.
Fever outpatient service and people infected swine flu isolation ward personnel must wear N95 masks or 12 floors above cotton masks, wear surgical mask nose clip. Only once use, once the respirator wet had cut the pathogen. Wearing masks should cover nose, don’t touch the mask, also can hang on neck mask and wear. Wearing of masks usable cotton 500mg/L disinfection disinfectant immerses disinfection, can also be used for 30 minutes pressure steam sterilization of 20 minutes.
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