No side effects reported due to prolonged wearing of face mask - Cloth masks are safe
Posted on: 28/Apr/2021 9:12:39 AM
If you are having doubt regarding whether wearing facemask could lead to breathing of carbon dioxide, then this article would reveal the truth.
It has become compulsory to wear facemasks to avoid getting Coronavirus infection. There were many complaints that wearing face masks for a longer duration of time has been affecting lungs as it led to breathing of carbon dioxide. This is not true and this was revealed by popular virologist Dr. Jacob John. He has confirmed now that till now there has not been any case reported regarding the adverse effects of prolonged wearing of face masks.
Truth is that by wearing facemasks we could avoid getting infected with this deadly and rapidly spreading infection. Recently, popular Tamil actor Vivek passed away and it grabbed many eyeballs.
It was later bought out by another famous actor that wearing facemasks could lead to breathing in of carbon dioxide. This made many take to the social media to express their views supporting the actor.
Dr Jacob John was asked about that and he expressed his thoughts and spoke about how till now no adverse case due to prolonged wearing of facemasks was reported. He threw light on how the surgeons do operation for 10 hours also wearing facemasks and how no one has fainted due to breathing in of carbon dioxide.
He made it very clear that when a person breathes in wearing a facemask then he or she breathes only oxygen and not carbon dioxide. Truth is that carbon dioxide goes out through the masks.
