Statement
Because the air could not escape during Exhalation, increases the proportion of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the blood. Especially for small children is dangerous.
Rating
Wrong. A physician in ordinary cloth masks the all-clear.
Facts
All can wear a Mouth guard made of fabric – even children.
“This is not a Problem,” says the Berlin-based physician and spokesperson for the professional Association of child and youth doctors (BVKJ), Jacob’s mask. “CO2 is a Gas and remains in the fabric, not hanging.”
This was not a air-impermeable plastic. Of fully enclosed covers – such as dust masks from the hardware store – advises the children’s physician, however.
Adults inhaled more air, and as children. The reduced lung volume in children, however, is not so small, as that the breathing air space between the face and the mouth would have protection, mask.
“Since there is no danger for even the smallest children.” With every breath in enough fresh to come back, oxygen-rich air into the lungs.
However, there are age-related limitations. “Under two years of age, a child can barely carry a face shield,” said the children and youth of doctor Ulrich Fegeler, also a member of the Association of the BVKJ.
“And playgrounds should be freely accessible again, carries with it the mouth-nose protection is also the danger that a child can get stuck to it.”
Also: Who makes self-protection, should not use vacuum cleaner bags. These contain, according to the drugstore company dm often a fine anti-bacterial-acting powder. This inhale was “both lungs as well as digestive organs harmful to health,” it says.
A tight-fitting mask is intended droplets to intercept the about the Speak out – and so the causative agent of SARS-CoV-2 could carry. Is breathed in through the Material, the air penetrates but also from the sides.
A mask serves only as a complementary measure, said Fegeler.
Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa)
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