Another reason is that face masks can protect against bad covid-19

Do you like it wet? Well, you might like your airway like that and might be able to help with a face mask.

Yes, a face mask may be able to prevent at least some of the Covid-19 coronavirus from entering your nose and mouth. After all, spending is something better than nothing, and that’s what they generally say for job interviews and first dates too. But there may be another reason why a front cover prevents you from getting a hard Covid-19. And it’s not the heat. It is the humidity. Study just published in the Iris Biophysical showed how a face mask can be a moisturizer, keeping your breaths nice and wet.

Wet Wet Wet is a Scottish soft rock band that sang “Love Is All Around.” It can also describe your breathing. That’s why exhaling in front of a mirror leaves a place of smoke and people won’t like it when you pant two inches in front of their faces. The latter is especially true when you keep repeating the word “moist” or “ointment” while doing so. Your nose and mouth are connected to your airway, at least they should be connected. So, preventing the wet air from coming out of your mouth with a face mask may cause you to breathe back into your respiratory tract, right?

Well, to further explore this potential, two researchers from the National Institutes of Health (NIH), Joseph M. Courtney and Ad Bax, PhD, set up an experiment. Volunteers volunteered to breathe into a steel box while the volunteer was not wearing a face mask. They tested four types of masks: N95 breathable, conventional surgical mask, NIH-supplied mask consisting of two layers of cotton and polyester blends, and a relatively thick lined cotton mask.

The researchers made sure the face mask was tight. In this case, tight did not mean “that’s tight,” as in “that’s cool,” “that’s awesome,” or “that’s great.” Instead, the researchers used a cover full-density foam rubber around the opening of the steel box to ensure that the edges of the mask fit snugly against the volunteer to prevent excessive leakage.

While the volunteer breathed into the box, the researchers then measured the increases caused by the relative humidity inside the steel box. Relative humidity is not the sweat spots on your cousin’s shirt. Instead, it is the density of water in the air, measured as a percentage of the maximum possible humidity at a given temperature. Therefore, 100% relative humidity is as wet as possible.

It should come as no surprise that the relative humidity in the box went up when the volunteer let him in while he had no face cover. In contrast, wearing any of the four masks significantly reduced the rate at which the breath pushed up the moisture in the box. In other words, all the moisture that would have entered the steel box, was instead trapped by the mask, causing the volunteer to re-breathe more air. damp. The face mask essentially acted as a moisturizer, which may be good for your respiratory tract.

That’s because things can be a bit hairy in your respiratory tract. Tiny little hair, called cilia, line your pathway. The beginning of the word “cilia” is similar to the beginning of the word “foolish” and the last part marks the end of the word “necrophilia. But “stupid” or “necrophilia” is not an appropriate description for that hair. They are important in protecting your airways and lungs.

Your respiratory tract usually secretes mucous, which then lines your respiratory tract. This mucous goo can act as a newspaper and trap viruses and other small particles in the air that you inhale before they make it all the way down your respiratory tract. The cilia that line your breath then strike rhythmically as you would when you move. This rhythmic movement moves the mucous goo and traps granules back out of your respiratory tract into your throat. The combined immune system is called mucociliary clearance (MCC).

So basically, items and other attackers have a harder time getting down with MCC. Yeah, you know me. In essence, a humid environment is more conducive to the goo mucous material being a sticky and catching substance and the gases move the goo back up and out of the respiratory tract.

Higher humidity in your respiratory tract may also stimulate the production of interferons. The name “interferon” refers to what these proteins do. They prevent viruses from multiplying by alerting and stimulating your immune system. If interferons could talk, they might say “wet we do our job.”

All of this is further evidence that wearing a face mask may not only help others but may help you. Currently the Covid-19 vaccine alone is not enough to stop the Covid-19 coronavirus from spreading. Vaccine coverage is not yet high enough. It is not yet clear how well the vaccine can prevent and infect the virus. In addition, vaccines are not 100% effective. That is why measures such as social distance and wearing a face mask are still important. So the next time someone refuses to wear a face mask, you can tell that person to show some moisture. Any argument against a face mask can be just wet.