Masking a familiar product helps protect everyone’s health. Currently, there are two popular types of face masks are medical masks and paper masks. Here are a few details to help you distinguish medical masks from paper masks.
Choosing the right mask and using the right mask can help you prevent the possibility of a virus infection, especially the corona virus, a virus that causes acute pneumonia from person to person quickly. Many people mistakenly think medical masks and paper masks are the same, but in fact these are two types of masks with differences.
1. Constructive characteristics
Regular medical masks will have 3 layers in them: the blue outer layer protects against water, helping to prevent liquid particles from splashing out when the sick person coughs or sneezes; the middle layer can filter dust and micro-bacteria; The innermost layer is white, designed to be free of fibers or ruffled with sweat absorbent properties for user comfort.
Paper masks are usually only 2 layers including 1 layer of filter and waterproof layer.
2. The ability to filter dirt
Medical masks are designed with many layers so the ability to filter dirt as well as bacteria is extremely good against bacteria or dust particles of very small size, this will help minimize the risk of epidemic infection.
Paper masks are less able to filter dirt and bacteria than medical masks.
3. Price
Medical masks have a cheap price of about 35,000 VND to 55.00 VND / box of 48 pieces while the paper mask is very cheap, cheaper than medical masks, the price is about 25,000 VND / box of 50 pieces.
Can medical masks be used many times?
There are many types of medical masks on the market, in terms of re-use criteria, there are 2 types of medical masks that are reusable and disposable. Disposable type is cheap, sold more popular, convenient, so it is used more widely.
Disposable medical masks usually have 1-3 layers, recommended by the manufacturer to use only 1 time, if reusing this type of mask, its effectiveness will be greatly reduced.
In addition, the mask removed in a bag, on the table, … will increase the pollution if worn on the face, making the face dirtier, increasing the risk of harmful bacteria entering the body.
Medical masks also contain activated carbon produced by advanced technology from the United States, Japan, Korea or imported from these countries. This face mask has activated carbon fibers to prevent dirt, toxic gases, flu-causing bacteria, … can be used 1-2 times but need to be carefully preserved to limit dirt.
