Could wearing glasses help protect against coronavirus?

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If you are one of the 25 million Spaniards who need to wear glasses for one reason or another, you could be in luck.

Yes, despite the fact that your ears cannot support more things on them, that when you remove the mask on more than one occasion, the temple of your glasses gets caught or that you have not yet discovered how to avoid fogging up crystals when wearing the mask.

Despite all this, you may be less likely to get the new coronavirus compared to those who do not have vision problems or do not use glasses to correct them.

Where does this question come from?

Just a few weeks ago,

a study carried out in a hospital in the city of Suizhou, belonging to the province of Hubei (China),

was published in the scientific journal

, which shows that

.

Doctors at that hospital observed that the proportion of people wearing glasses who were admitted for Covid-19 was up to five times lower compared to those who did not wear them in their day-to-day lives.

Should I buy protective glasses?

It is not necessary, at least for now.

While it is true that this is a study that discovers a striking relationship between wearing glasses and being less likely to be infected,

until we have more scientific evidence in this regard.

The fact that very few people with glasses have been affected by the virus in a region and at a certain time does not imply that the glasses offer additional protection against the virus.

More studies would be needed to prove it.

Will glasses replace the mask?

In the case of confirming its usefulness as a means of protection against Covid-19, the glasses would

, but would be an added complement.

The PPE of the toilets include glasses, why?

It is true that within the well-known personal protective equipment (PPE) that health personnel wear to protect ourselves against a patient with coronavirus, waterproof protective glasses are included.

This is because the membranes that line the respiratory tract, the eyes and the digestive system are thinner and offer less protection against external agents such as viruses or bacteria compared to the skin that covers the rest of our body.

Being

, we must protect ourselves against drops from coughs or sneezes, as well as aerosolized particles that are formed as a result of certain procedures that we carry out with patients.

Can I get it through my eyes?

So is.

First of all, I must emphasize that the main route of entry of the new coronavirus into our body is the

, and that the possibility of being infected through the mucous membranes of the eyes is notably less, but it does exist .

Viral particles are transmitted through the air in the form of aerosols or microdroplets that, without the established precautionary measures (distance, mask and hand washing), can end up sneaking into our body.

How could glasses prevent contagion?

It makes a certain sense that the simple fact of wearing glasses with visual correction can offer us additional protection against the virus, since they

prior

.

We could have touched a surface where the virus is deposited, and then put our hand to our eyes without realizing it.

In addition to this, the glasses could protect the entrance route of the ocular mucosa in the event that someone gets too close to us without wearing the mask or doing it incorrectly.

Do face shields protect the same as glasses?

In both cases, and as long as we are not talking about waterproof glasses,

.

Remember that the use of a face shield never replaces the mask, it is a complement, being much more important to wear a suitable mask, which complies with the regulations and with a good fit to the face than to put on a face protection screen or glasses .

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