Good morning! :) So we're outside today because Grace
inspired this video when she asked the question about sports and masks. So
i'm gonna go out on my daily walks / run and we're gonna test
four different styles. I have got the bandana, the surgical mask, and then the two cloth
masks that fit differently and i'm going to let you know how these
perform with a walk first of all and then I'll do a
little bit of jogging with them so that you know my thoughts
about using them for exercise and that to give you an
idea as to which would be the best for you.
But first before we go there's a lot of bugs though right now I have got to get
myself all ready.
Welcome back my name is Tammy and this is NurseMinder and on this channel we do
everything nursing so if you're new here consider subscribing below so that you
get the next video when it's released. So we're going to start with the bandana
because it's the lightest weight and ... Hi neighbor ... because it's the lightest
weight and I think this will probably perform the
best in terms of me feeling like i can breathe
and that I don't have a lot of restriction but I'm more curious about
the dampness of it really so we're going to start out with
the bandana.
Don't mind the messy morning hair, this is what I look like before I get my
face on (LOL) and I guess you could consider this my
face! All right I am putting my hat back on
because um it already feels damp just with
talking but we're going to give it a go. Thanks
for the idea Grace! I hope you get your answers after this
video. And here comes our cat patches featured in another video when we talked
about blood glucose. I can never get out of here without
patches coming to say hello.
All right so I thought I should probably give you the weather report because the
temperature is certainly going to make a difference. Today it is 13 degrees C, it's
just 8 o'clock in the morning it feels really damp out because I don't
know if you live where I live but it's been a lot of rain this year
and, oh I can tell you already as I'm as I'm starting out on this walk I can
feel the moisture inside of this mask. Not a fan. This is a single layer bandana
that I'm wearing. Definitely easy to breathe through.
so I'm going to continue on for a kilometer here
and I'll report back.
Okay so I just finished my kilometer walk I'll take this one off now
and inspect it.
So like I feel like my nose is all wet and
breathability factor this bandana was great I had no
issues breathing while walking and then I did a short jog here as well.
No issues with breathability I definitely felt the moisture still
it didn't really get any worse though and
my glasses fogged up a little bit but maybe because I'm outside that resolved
almost as quickly as it fogged up so we're going to move on now to mask
number two. This is the surgical mask replica.
It's made out of quilter's cotton and by Rhonda Duncan here in Sherwood Park. I'm
going to put the link below and if you're looking to
pick up the surgical mask out of quilter's cotton which has been
in the research as the best fabric to have in a mask then you can contact her.
and we're going to put this on now and see now this one does not come with
a nose bridge so I think already I know that my glasses
will fog but we're going to try it out and see.
So I haven't gotten very far into the walk-in I am struggling to keep my
glasses clean with this mask because
as you can see all the air is escaping up and out
I had to loop it to try and get a tighter seal
on the ends and I'm going to try one more thing. So what I've done now is I've
tightened it here to get a tighter feel around the face uh
it definitely fits my face better this is an important consideration when
looking at a face mask I have a tiny head and often
adult size things don't fit nicely for me
so if you also suffer with tiny head syndrome
it doesn't mean you're not brilliant by the way because
we are then you may not find the cloth surgical mask a great fit and you're
gonna have to use some of these hacks that I talk about
in other videos to get a better seal. Now I'd actually probably go home and
sew this because this feels really comfortable now
um so aside from the glasses fogging up which I'm going to take them off so I
can finish this one kilometer trial I'll let you know
how the breathability goes with exercise.
So you're probably wondering how I can see
the truth is I can't really, there we go and there's a lot of puddles to navigate
back here. So now in terms of breathability,
I find that this mask is two layers of quilter's cotton
to be fine. I'm not struggling I don't feel like I have to work any harder
and actually maybe I'll stop up here.
There we go get rid of that background noise.
So in terms of the quilter's cotton i don't feel like I have to work any
harder to breathe I mean that maybe because there are gaps
around the nose and it's not a tight seal which a surgical mask is not
meant to do. I cannot wear my glasses with this one
though however when I exercise but aside from that
you can see I'm breathing pretty hard and
I think it stands up to what your needs would be.
Now this one is not as tightly fitted against my face as the bandana was and
so the bandana I felt the moisture immediately
with this one it's probably a little moist in there because of all the
breathing but I don't really notice it at this
point which would be something to watch for so we're going to switch out now and
try and the next mask we're going to try is
another two layers of cotton. This is a bit more fitted it's got the
the face I don't even know what this pattern is
called to be honest but
So we're gonna try this one. So this mask also has two layers of
cotton and there's a place for a filter so you
could make it three layers.
It has a nose piece so you can form it around your nose a little bit
and I find for my face my size that this line is really quite lovely and it
seems to fit as snug as you can get a mask so
we're going to carry on for the next kilometer combination of walking and
running and I can already tell my glasses are
fogging up with this one as well. All right so I also cannot wear my
glasses with this mask because they fog up so I'm gonna
have to do a little running here without them.
Morning. um but in terms of breathability so far
no issues it doesn't feel quite as heavy as the quilters cotton
so it's probably a different thread count
in terms of filtration 100 % cotton is what it's made out of and two layers is
what the research says will provide you the best so let's do a
little running now and see how this goes
All right so this mask again you want to take it off so you're
not touching the outside if you're going to reuse it i just want to see how damp
it is on the inside
Slightly damp so it's not going to last it's not going to last for any long
periods of time of rigorous exercise so if you're going to
be exercising with a cloth mask or the bandana be sure you have multiple
so you can change it out because once they're damp the
effectiveness of filtration is reduced significantly it will still trap
your exhalation your droplets
from others but if you're looking to also protect yourself and maximize that
once they're damp you need to switch them out.
So i have one last mask to try today and that's the good old surgical
mask. I am going to make it tight
so I'm going to tie off the ends here
I'll try to get that a little closer
I didn't plan this too well I don't have any sort of tripod or anything to hold
my camera as i go maybe that'll be my next purchase, one of
those handheld I know i'm behind the times I don't have
that there I want it tight nice and tight
I'm going to make this the best that I can make it to assess it in terms of
exercise um breathability dampness and of course
glass fog. Glass fog is a big one for me guys right
I mean I can't really see without my glasses so when I was running through
those trails just now I may have walked through a few puddles
that I couldn't tell were actually on the ground because they're the same
color as the ground
all right
so the goal here for me is to be able to wear my glasses
get a nice tight seal this one obviously has
so let's see all right so I'm just getting started
I'm still kind of recovering from that last jog but already
my glasses are not fogging up so for me knowing that the surgical mask does
provide the best protection outside of the N95
knowing I can get a nice tight seal I should show you where I'm walking it's
beautiful here, knowing I can get a nice tight seal and
my glasses aren't going to fog up is the ideal fix but I know that not
everybody has access to surgical masks so if there's somebody out there
one of you crafties and creatives who can design a better nose piece
for people like me who wear glasses and have small heads that would be
amazing. So I'm going to carry on in my walk here
and then after a kilometer I will come back and let you
know.
Well as you can see
my glasses are not fogging up
and I don't feel like
I'm having any issues breathing
I'm back and
it's been an interesting test so breathability fine I don't have any
issues I don't feel like I'm struggling the
surgical mask should not be damp because it's water resistant my face
might be a little damp from absorbing all that I'm just gonna touch
the inside of my mask now which you don't do for infection control
you don't have to message me below about infection control I know that
in fact it is a little damp the fibers are a little wet
so while the surgical mask is water resistant it doesn't mean it's
waterproof and if I was working with a patient I'd
want to switch this out
but in terms of being able to wear with my glasses
this is the clear winner for me however I know that that is not
what people have access to and so for those who wear glasses you need to try
and find a mask you can get a little bit more wire
to prevent the air flow coming up and a nice fit so that it's going to
reduce the amount of air going through the sides and out and in through the
filter now I'm going to enjoy the rest of this
lovely day and finish off my walk and
maybe get my bike out later today too that'd be lovely
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