Posted on 10/10/2021 4:29:34 PM PDT by conservative98
SAN ANTONIO -- Face masks became seeded "almost instantaneously" with oral and nasopharyngeal bacteria, posing a potential risk of spread to the eyes during intravitreal injections for macular degeneration, according to a study reported here.
Masks for all 73 patients involved in the study tested positive for a variety of common organisms, as well as some uncommon microbes. Bacteria grew on both sides of masks, irrespective of mask material age.
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"We didn't find a correlation between mask age and inside or outside growth, which suggests [other evidence] that even within a few hours of wearing a mask, you can see bacteria on them," he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...
Eyew.
Filthy, Nasty, rags.
While wearing any masks:
Face Masks May Risk Bacterial Spread to Eyes During Intravitreal Injections
MedPage Today ^ | 10/10/21 | by Charles Bankhead, Senior Editor
Posted on 10/10/2021, 4:29:34 PM by conservative98
SAN ANTONIO — Face masks became seeded “almost instantaneously” with oral and nasopharyngeal bacteria, posing a potential risk of spread to the eyes during intravitreal injections for macular degeneration, according to a study reported here.
Masks for all 73 patients involved in the study tested positive for a variety of common organisms, as well as some uncommon microbes. Bacteria grew on both sides of masks, irrespective of mask material age.
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“We didn’t find a correlation between mask age and inside or outside growth, which suggests [other evidence] that even within a few hours of wearing a mask, you can see bacteria on them,” he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at medpagetoday.com ...
I get these shots in the eye.
Expensive.
And to risk an infection due to a mask?
Nope. Again.
Like those filthy reusable shopping bags that people never wash or replace
Lots of things can be contracted through the eyes. I remember a story where a woman died from rabies, without any obvious contact with it. They finally figured out that she had contracted it years prior through the eyes, and it just lay in her system until it finally got her.
I don’t think face masks covering our noses and mouths have shielded us from virus in the air - or on our hands - that made it into our eyes.
Your mask becomes a collector. A billion germs are coming at you...and sticking to your mask. Then it’s fiddle time...on off, up, down, hanging, car mirror...so many things you can do with it.
The masks made in China and elsewhere come pre-loaded with bacteria. Don’t buy medical supplies from anywhere you get sick from drinking tapwater.
Mrs AV
They are catchers of every bacteria and germ known to man and set in front of your nose and mouth.
I guess we should demand that they go maskless during our operations when we are knocked out under the knife… Out of consideration for their eyesight. That’s the least we can do. I’d like to see the worldwide macular degeneration figures for health care personnel.
Meanwhile here in Japan, we’ve reached 142-deaths-per-million due to full or partial Covid-19 infection.
(The current US rate is 2,206-per-million people.)
We NEVER purchase protective masks from Communist China here in Japan. All masks in our house are A-OK 100% Made In Japan. Top shelf top quality, tops worldwide for quality, durability, sanitation. And boy oh boy do Japanese ever know their masks!
Surgeons have a reason for wearing them and throw out masks very often after a short time, butthead.
Interesting. I know 2 young people who developed eye issues since masks. Last October a 15 year old girl developed a fungal infection in one eye. She was on a steroid and antifungal for about 8 months. Another was a 27 year old man who developed a cyst on the underside of his eyelid which needed surgery to remove.
“Like those filthy reusable shopping bags that people never wash or replace”
Oregon. Two years of lockdowns and masks because “we need to do everything in our power to stop this deadly disease.” When asked about the disposable bag ban the administration said, “people have already gotten use to bringing their own bags and we need to do everything we can to protect the environment.”
“Like those filthy reusable shopping bags that people never wash or replace”
Oregon. Two years of lockdowns and masks because “we need to do everything in our power to stop this deadly disease.” When asked about the disposable bag ban the administration said, “people have already gotten use to bringing their own bags and we need to do everything we can to protect the environment.”
I believe it. Japanese people seem very quality conscious about many things. Not great fans of Comm. China either, as I’m sure you know.
Mrs AV
No end to the mischief those darn masks are causing.
If I ever go in for surgery I’m going to demand my surgeon remove his mask. Who knows what he (or she) will do during the operation, being oxygen deprived and such. And don’t even get me started on those nasty surgical gloves, what’s wrong with our natural skin?
so you could be rabid right now, and we just don’t know it.
Depends upon what you mean by ‘rabid’. I’ve had enough contact with domestic and wild animals, I guess that I could be unknowingly carrying the virus - and so might you.
Depending on the state of our immune systems, and on any other diseases that hit us, we may never know.
(There’s probably all sorts of scary stuff squirming around inside of all of us. We’re all walking, flesh-and-blood Petri dishes; and our immune systems are amazing machines.)
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