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.
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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
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
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.)
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.
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?
For almost 10 years I have been going in for these injections every couple of months.
They have always used a betadine solution to clean the exterior eye area before the shot.
This last time they changed the procedure and only swabbed the eyelash area and they put drops directly into the eye to
disinfect before the injection.
After reading this, I suspect this change is because of the infection risk from facemasks.