Corona virus: disposable gloves as virus defense? A doctor is now warning about the use of medical gloves.
- In the corona crisis, protective clothing is in short supply in the medical field.
- Private individuals also stock up on makeshift protection .
- A type of glove seems obvious - but a medical doctor warns.
Bremervörde - Our hands suddenly get a lot of attention - we are no longer allowed to give them to each other, hand them over, shake them, we wash and disinfect them until they are brittle and do not touch anything - if so, then only with pointed fingers.
Many have been used to wearing gloves since the outbreak of the corona virus - but with warmer temperatures, wool and winter gloves are slowly getting out.
An alternative seems to be obvious: the gloves that are worn in medical practices. A good idea? No, says a doctor - and that with haunting words. "This is a large-scale hygienic mess."
Stop wearing medical gloves in public. This is a large-scale hygienic mess.
- Dr. Marc Hanefeld (@FlyingDok) April 5, 2020Corona crisis: doctor warns of medical gloves
Dr. explains why he uses such drastic words Marc Hanefeld, general practitioner from Bremervörde, then more precisely: Medical gloves are porous and intended to protect themselves against larger contaminants - for example, with body fluids from patients . Hand disinfection is especially necessary before and after using the gloves.
If you wear the gloves thoughtlessly, you may not know that a glove between skin and glove is a paradise for bacteria and germs of all kinds:
Under the glove, bacteria multiply with joy in the warm, humid chamber. At the latest after taking off you have a sewer on your hands without disinfection. Congratulations!
- Dr. Marc Hanefeld (@FlyingDok) April 5, 2020"Under the glove, bacteria multiply with pleasure in the warm, humid chamber," Hanefeld continued on Twitter .
He cites the background of his tweets from a study by an Austrian doctor, which is cited by the specialist magazine Pflege-Online: Ojan Assidian therefore demonstrated that gloves, especially for the environment, could be dangerous. While bacteria adhere to human skin, plastic gloves readily release them when they come into contact - a thousand times more than your hand.
It becomes uncomfortable and disgusting for the wearer of gloves to take them off - in Hanefeld's words: "Then you have a sewer on your hands."
Refraining from disinfection after wearing the gloves because you are supposed to be well protected does not sound like a good idea after reading Hanefeld's tweets.