Disposable gloves made of Latex or nitrile rubber to protect your carrier before infection with the Coronavirus Sars-CoV2.
So a glove is not absolutely tight and also everything you touch from doorknobs or shopping carts, says Prof. Janne Vehreschild by the Board of Directors of the German society for infectiology (DGI). “He thus offers little advantage.”
Vehreschild explains: “The Virus is not on the palms, but on mucous membranes in the body, such as when you touch the nose or the mouth.”
In this respect, the most important advice, outside or when shopping is not to grab with the Hand to the nose, the mouth or in the eyes was actually.
When returning home, wash your hands thoroughly or disinfected. And, of course, the General rule is to keep distance from others.
Good hand hygiene is the A and O in the case of Corona’s
Also the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) sees a good hand hygiene as an important part of protection against infection.
By extensive wash hands at least 20 seconds in duration, the number of germs on the hands could be extremely reduce, it says on the Portal Infektionsschutz.de operated by the Federal centre for health education (BZgA).
Disposable gloves to protect recommend neither the RKI the BZgA.
Properly applied, are of disposable gloves but not completely useless: “If you put gloves in your pocket, and you, for example, specifically for shopping put on, and after Stowing the food, and the removal of the shopping cart to throw away,” says Vehreschild.
In order to lower the risk of infection may be a bit. You could previously be disinfected but also the handle of the car, or after the hands clean.
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Disposable gloves do not wear long
What you should avoid in any case: wear The gloves a longer period of time – such as during walks. This is from a hygienic point of view, rather bad, so the doctors.
The skin have a bacterial flora, the contactor have properties and a self-disinfect – while on a glove, all stick, explains Vehreschild. “Besides, you sweat under the glove strong and the skin flora is not good.”
Also medical staff is wearing, under normal circumstances, never the whole day, the same Pair of gloves.
Routes of Virus transmission are not completely clarified
The physicians employed at the University hospital of Cologne and at the German centre for infection research with the Sars-CoV-2 Virus and the Virus-induced lung disease Covid-19.
A final assessment of how the Virus is transmitted, you have not yet. “So far we only know that it is transmitted via the drop way, so for example when Talking to each other, often over the way of a smear infection, we know too little.”
A contagion through the handle to packages or food, and then in the face, seem to play no significant role. Here, the amount of adherent virus is not likely to be large enough, so Vehreschild.
“The handle of the shopping cart, door handles and other surfaces with intensive use could be different.” But it is a safe statement, it is not yet give.
Sources
- The Robert Koch Institute (2020): questions and answers Coronavirus, retrieved on 09.04.2020: https://www.rki.de/SharedDocs/FAQ/NCOV2019/FAQ_Liste.html
- Infection protection (2020): Properly wash hands, retrieved on 09.04.2020: https://www.infektionsschutz.de/haendewaschen/#c6357
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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