Posted on 03/09/2020 11:12:34 AM PDT by nickcarraway
We touch our faces all the time, but it is a real health risk. With the coronavirus outbreak as severe as it is, how do we stop? In this new world, not only is nose picking thought to be gross, so is nose scratching, mouth touching and eye rubbing. All it takes is just one virus to hitch a ride on a contaminated finger and slip into the body through a nostril or a wet part of the face.
Then the virus can latch on, finding a human cell in the throat, nose or sinuses to hijack and destroy, flooding the body with even more copies of itself. In critical illnesses, that one careless touch from an unwashed finger can begin a process of destroying lungs and kidneys and, in a worst-case scenario, trigger septic shock, multiple organ failure and make it impossible to breathe on your own.
And yet, it is still so hard to stop touching our faces. Much of the time it is spontaneous, and we are not even aware of it. One study caught medical students in class touching their faces 23 times per hour on average. “It’s human nature to want to touch your face,” says Dr Otto Yang, an infectious diseases expert at University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA).
There’s a reason for that. Touching our faces may be related to negative feelings – a feeling when we have failed to achieve a goal or are not satisfied, according to a research article published in the journal PLoS One.
Face touching can help us deal with anxiety and discomfort, and may be comforting, the report says. We might think we want to touch our faces because of a perceived itch or to groom ourselves, but research suggests we are actually doing it because we
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dab some up in the nostrils too- that’s where viruses get into body the most- it’s just alcohol really- should be safe to snort- There used to be a medicine over the ocutner called Zicam that was made of zink nose swab- and it killed the virus at the source, i n the nose- problem was that the zinc in nose was causing permanent loss of smell in a few people so they stopped making it-
I would assume the sanitizer (which is just alcohol and glycerine, or aloe vera) will be fine in the4 nose- and kill the virus at the source- I don’t do it all the time- just when i have to go to hospital or health center, or have to go shopping- We’re avoiding group gatherings for now- just as added protection- but yeah, hit the nose along with face- also if you wear glasses- use alcohol wipe on them after meeting with folks- just to be safe-
...my upper lip started itching. Now the right side of my nose. Uh oh...it moved to the forehead. Now the right corner of my mouth. Aaaggn!
A good haul is very satisfying.
Just wear the clear blast-shield !
No face itch is perceived with 6 furbabies shedding everywhere and long hair during static electricity season.
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