Glasses Can Save You from Coronavirus
In today’s corona-infested times, when the world around is surrounded by the dark, gloomy, and murky milieu, there’s a sigh of relief for people who wear glasses.
According to three types of research made in the last year namely, Lancet, Jama, and a Chinese study, it has been proved that wearing glasses for extended hours can help one save from getting infected from coronavirus.
As we know that the virus reaches into our bodies while we touch our eyes, nose, and mouth; wearing masks mitigate the rate of transmission of the virus. Similarly, when one is wearing glasses, the rate of touching the eyes is reduced to a greater extent, thereby reducing the rate of incidence of coronavirus.
In a new study conducted in India itself, it has been found that people who wear glasses are 3 times less likely to get infected with the coronavirus.
19 percent of the people involved in the study regularly wore glasses.
medRxiv is the world-famous website related to health sciences on which a study was done in India and whose report has been published. This study took place in a hospital in Kanpur, North India, in which researchers included 304 people. Of this, 223 were males and 81 were females. The age of all these people was between 10 years to 80 years and symptoms of Covid were seen in all these people. 19 percent of the people involved in the study were those who wore glasses most of the time.
Every person touches the face on average 023 times and eyes 3 times every hour.
Researchers involved in the study found that participants touched their faces an average of 23 times per hour and their eyes an average of three times per hour.
During this, it was found that people who regularly wear glasses were 2 to 3 times less likely to get Covid-19 infection.
The study report said that touching and rubbing the eyes with contaminated hands can be important to spread the infection.
Frequent touching and rubbing of the eyes due to prolonged use of glasses can be prevented. Further, today some of the glasses come with anti-virus coating. This seems to be a very promising breakthrough in technology that comes as a boon for all of us.
Wrapping up, wearing glasses for 8 hours a day can certainly assuage the strike rate of the impending disastrous wrath of the probable 3rd wave.
