Baton Rouge General will be the first hospital to take the masks. The masks will be sanitized based on federal, CDC standards that allow for cloth to be cleaned and returned to use. Similar to patient gowns and bedding, homemade masks will go through a thorough cleaning process before being given to patients.
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Dale Ziemianski wrote:My girl used a furnace filter that she found at the store that had been lightly damaged so she got a discount on it. Then she took it apart, saving the wire for armature for art projects, then cut up the furnace filter paper (lots are allergen blocking) and stuffed them into her cloth masks that her friend made that has pockets in them to insert the filters. You can get a LOT of filters from a furnace filter!
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r ranson wrote:non-aerosol based illnesses like COVID
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David Wieland wrote:
But COVID-19 is aerosol-based, according to what I've read. Why else would N95 masks be in high demand?
Cécile Stelzer Johnson wrote:PPE: Not just masks, but also gloves and common sense!
Mask up and glove up, folks. It is time we take responsibility for ourselves to not get infected!
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David Wieland wrote:
Cécile Stelzer Johnson wrote:PPE: Not just masks, but also gloves and common sense!
Mask up and glove up, folks. It is time we take responsibility for ourselves to not get infected!
As I've read elsewhere, and realized after considering practical use, gloves can actually be a way to spread contaminants. Taking off a paint-covered glove using a hand wearing another paint-covered glove requires great care to keep the paint completely off skin and clothing. And those gloves must be turned inside out and carefully disposed of to keep other surfaces clean.
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Adrien Lapointe wrote:Here is an interesting article about the efficiency of the homemade masks.
https://smartairfilters.com/en/blog/diy-homemade-mask-protect-virus-coronavirus/
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Cécile Stelzer Johnson wrote:I was not suggesting one-use throw away gloves: I'm aware that it is tricky to remove throw away/ one use gloves when there is blood on it. I've done it in trauma classes. Since these would be your personal gloves, not to be used by anyone else, you can re-use the gloves.
Don't you wash your hands with the gloves on then? They can then be removed easily without needing to turn them inside out once they are clean. Use soap, just like you would on your hands or even bleach full strength and get them clean. Bare hands can spread germs as easily IMHO and are harder to clean under the fingernails. Having gloves you can re-use allows you to have a "public" set of hands and having your clean hands, uncontaminated, inside your house so as to not infect your family.
(and from the original post) I use them to go shopping, as well as nitrile gloves, and I despair to still see people handling produce with their bare hands! Folks are there trying to protect us by scrubbing the carts and then we go in and handle the produce bare handed! How stupid can we be?
David Wieland wrote:
Cécile Stelzer Johnson wrote:I was not suggesting one-use throw away gloves: I'm aware that it is tricky to remove throw away/ one use gloves when there is blood on it. I've done it in trauma classes. Since these would be your personal gloves, not to be used by anyone else, you can re-use the gloves.
Don't you wash your hands with the gloves on then? They can then be removed easily without needing to turn them inside out once they are clean. Use soap, just like you would on your hands or even bleach full strength and get them clean. Bare hands can spread germs as easily IMHO and are harder to clean under the fingernails. Having gloves you can re-use allows you to have a "public" set of hands and having your clean hands, uncontaminated, inside your house so as to not infect your family.
(and from the original post) I use them to go shopping, as well as nitrile gloves, and I despair to still see people handling produce with their bare hands! Folks are there trying to protect us by scrubbing the carts and then we go in and handle the produce bare handed! How stupid can we be?
Personally, I've never seen a nitrile (=vinyl?) glove that afforded close to the sense of touch of a bare hand and was also strong and loose enough to be reusable. Obviously your hands and glove options allow you that ability, but I doubt that it's feasible for most of us. The practice of cleaning your gloves before going into each store you visit implies ready access to the sanitizer and not much being carried by hand. For people without a vehicle parked close to the store (perhaps shopping as a pedestrian or cyclist), sanitizing gloves between entering nearby stores would be awkward at best. Is this a practice you've adopted specifically for the current outbreak, or is it a routine one for protection from all infections?
I've long treated my hands as dirty when I've handled any objects, including produce, or grabbed a door handle. That means I wash them before I do anything afterward that requires clean hands to be sanitary. And I wash and/or cook produce before serving or eating it. Washing doesn't sterilize, of course, but it gets me the cleanest food I can practically have, regardless of what contamination might have landed on it before or after I acquired it.
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