What Kind Of Mask Do You Need To Wear?

Since the outbreak of the new crown pneumonia, Mask Become a necessity for healthy life. However, there are many kinds of mask and various functions. What kind of mask do you need to wear? The State Council's joint defense and joint control mechanism, the life and materials guarantee group, gave an official answer.

Why do we need to wear masks scientifically?

Answer: wearing masks is an important means for the public to prevent new coronavirus infection. When necessary, everyone should choose the appropriate type of respirator to wear and protect themselves. At the same time, everyone should also be responsible for distinguishing the nature of different jobs, production and living places. According to the risk level of exposure, appropriate masks should be worn appropriately, without excessive protection, the efficiency of masks can be increased, and the waste of resources will be reduced. At present, there are 5 exposure risks of high, high, medium, low and low levels, which can be used as guidelines for choosing and using respirators. High and high exposure risk personnel are mainly engaged in epidemic prevention and control work directly. Most of the other staff belonged to medium, low or low exposure risk personnel.

Is it safe to wear N95 respirators in production and life?

Answer: in line with the epidemic situation, it is necessary for medical personnel who are exposed to high risk (high) exposure to use medical masks or N95 class respirators. Medical staff in general outpatient and ward of hospitals usually only wear surgical masks. The general public is neither necessary nor recommended to use N95 masks.

I am not a health care worker. But how should a workplace wear a respirator when space is confined or crowded?

Answer: if you are a relative closed or crowded place in hospitals, airports, railway stations, subway, ground buses, aircraft, trains, supermarkets, restaurants, or those involved in epidemic related administrative management, police, security, courier and so on, those who are exposed to risk are advised to wear surgical masks in the workplace.

I am neither a health care worker nor a production and living place.

Answer: if you are in a crowded area such as supermarkets, shopping malls, transportation vehicles, elevators, etc., or in ordinary indoor offices, factory workshops, etc., or in patients attending medical institutions (except for hot ones), or students in concentrated learning and activities, they are generally exposed to low exposure risk. It is recommended that disposable medical masks be used for children. A mask of comparable performance.

What occasions can I not wear masks?

Answer: if you are in good health, you may not wear a mask if you are at home, well ventilated or low density. For example, there are no suspicious patients in the family, no close contacts or family members who come back from the epidemic areas; private cars have not been in the epidemic area guests or suspected patients. In the open air labor and work with good ventilation conditions, and keep an appropriate distance from the adjacent personnel: no tourists gather in the park when they visit the park. There is a suitable distance between them and the surrounding people. The office strictly takes disinfection, temperature measurement and ventilation measures, and colleagues do not have suspected and close contacts.

What kind of masks should children wear and what matters should they pay attention to?

Answer: children choose products that conform to national standards and label children or youth particulate respirators. Before wearing a mask, children should read and understand the instructions carefully with the help of their parents, so as to master the correct usage. Parents should always pay attention to the wearing of children's masks, such as children feel uncomfortable when wearing masks, and should be adjusted or stopped in time. Because children face is small, and adults can not fully close the mask edge, it is not recommended that children wear a mask with a close sex requirements.

What should I pay attention to wearing masks?

Answer: choose the appropriate size masks. Wash hands before wearing masks. When wearing, let the mask close to the face and press the aluminum pieces on both sides of the nose with the fingers of the left and right hands to reduce the air leakage around. The nose clamp of medical surgical mask is above, and should be pressed when used. After wearing a mask, you should avoid touching the mask. If you must touch the mask, wash your hands before and after touch. When you remove the mask, try to avoid touching the outside of the mask and wash your hands immediately.

Is it safer to wear two layers of respirators?

Answer: wearing two mask can not increase safety.

Can the respirator be reused after use?

Answer: in addition to high or higher exposure risk personnel, masks worn by healthy people can be used repeatedly, including appropriate extension of mask usage and frequency of use. If you need to use the mask again, you can hang it in a clean, dry ventilating place or place it in a clean, breathable paper bag. Masks should be stored separately, avoiding contact with each other and identifying the users of mask.

What kind of mask do you need to replace?

Answer: generally replace respirators when they are deformed, damped or dirty, resulting in reduced protective performance.

How should the mask be disposed of after use?

Answer: if you belong to a healthy population, the masks worn will be processed according to the requirements of domestic waste classification. If you are suspected or confirmed, the mask should not be discarded at will. It should be treated as medical waste and strictly treated according to the process of medical waste.