Medical Mask

It’s know that such a personal protective equipment as a medical mask is a necessary maintaining hygiene tool in all parts of a health care establishment. They are present everywhere, right from the operation room to the general outpatient unit. Their function is to stop the spread of contagious diseases and thus control any sort of infections.

However there is debate about effectiveness of a facial medical mask against such virus as H1N1(swine flu virus). Maybe it’s just marketing gimmick to make money on frightened peoples?

The experts unanimously agree that a full-faced medical mask with a high-efficiency particle air filter is required to completely protect against fine particle viruses like the H1N1 virus. Both it increases the level of your protection that you especially need while contacting people that are falling ill. But after all, it’s your decision to use it or not.

There are different types of medical masks in the market: disposal and reusable.

Disposal mask is very useful in all kinds of emergency citations where there is a risk of infection. It’s also become a popular individual healthcare tool in flu seasons when the risk of the epidemic being spread is high. Especially for protection against the swine flu, H1N1 related infections.

The reusable masks which are washable are helpful to people that are prone to virus and bacteria infections. It’s also very useful for people who suffer from allergies and asthma. Mask should be able to effectively filter out the allergens, dust particles, fungi or bacteria. It’s important to choose a properly size of this medical mask for best protection.

The size of medical mask depends on the age of the owner. Thus meant that adult size mask will not properly fit a kid. You can ask medical professions to help you choose proper kind of mask for you.

World Health Organization presents a document with advise to people, using medical masks for their health-care. First of all, it’s very important to maintain distance of at least 1metre from individual that has virus influenza-like symptoms! It’s also good to perform hand hygiene frequently and improve airflow in your living or working space.

Fro more information download this pdf: Advice on the use of masks in the community setting in Influenza A (H1N1) outbreaks

By the way, today it’s not a problem to look stylish in medical mask. Many designers present there own vision of this attribute and make it a little more fashionable. Just look at these interesting example!