Nasal Calcium-Rich Salts for Cleaning Airborne Particles from the Airways of Essential Workers, Students, and a Family in Quarantine

Autor:	David Edwards, Jonathan Salzman, Tom Devlin, Robert Langer
Jazyk:	angličtina
Rok vydání:	2020
Předmět:	nasal saline covid-19 calcium exhaled breath respiratory droplets hygiene airborne infectious disease Biology (General) QH301-705.5
Zdroj:	Molecular Frontiers Journal, Vol 4, Iss 01n02, Pp 36-45 (2020)
Druh dokumentu:	article
ISSN:	2529-7325 2529-7333 25297325
DOI:	10.1142/S2529732520400040
Popis:	To improve hygiene in the COVID-19 pandemic, we evaluated the intranasal delivery of calcium-enriched saline to suppress breath particles in practical settings reflecting essential worker hygiene, quarantine hygiene, and back-to-school hygiene. In studies with 92 men, women, and children, we observed that nasal salt aerosols lowered exhaled particles for the group by around 75%, and outperformed surgical face masks in the clearing of sub-micron particles.
Databáze:	Directory of Open Access Journals
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