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- Hi folks, I'm Bob Shcrupp, physical therapist.
- Brad Heineck, physical therapist.
- We're the most famous physical therapists on the internet.
- In our opinion of course, Bob.
- So, as you might imagine, today we're gonna talk about
how to stop glasses from fogging up when wearing a mask
and we're gonna show you two techniques
that work and two that don't.
- Yours are fogging up Bob.
- I know they are, let me just show you real quick
before we go any further,
how my glasses fog up on me.
- [Brad] Wow.
This is really.
- Are you seeing it, Mike?
- You're gonna be scaring people away
getting that face up that close to the camera, Bob.
Better get back here.
- So, I have a problem because not only do I have to
wear a mask a lot of times when I see patients,
but I have a big nose
(laughing)
and I have glasses.
- Yeah. - It's a bad combination
and so the problem is, when you work with a patient
you can't touch your glasses then,
you can't touch your, you know, if I wear a shield,
you can't touch the shield,
so I've had it where I'm in with the patient,
I'm trying to look at their oxygen reading
and I can't read it, I literally can't read it.
I'm just like, you know, what do I do?
So this is a real serious problem
and for those of you out there who are just maybe wearing
the regular masks, the homemade masks,
or the masks like Brad here,
and you got glasses, it's still gonna be a problem,
so we'll go over this.
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So, first let's talk about what doesn't work, Brad.
They talked about, I've seen YouTube channels
where they take, you wash your glasses with soap
and then you clean them off
and that's supposed to give you like, a little film
or something, doesn't work
and also this I didn't try myself
and it'll be interesting to see what you think, Brad,
but I seen other YouTubers say using the anti fog spray,
there's a spray, does not work
and I'm assuming it doesn't make sense that it would
work for me 'cause I,
or even use Rain X.
- Oh sure, that stuff you put on your windshield.
Yeah, I think that it's from like,
if you snorkel or scuba dive, I've used toothpaste,
I've used soap, I've used saliva, it all works good,
but that's a completely different situation
when you got that, your mask is completely sealed
from air, this is totally different atmosphere than that.
- Obviously it has to be sealed,
or otherwise you're gonna have water coming in, so.
(laughs)
Second, this is not a issue of glasses being cold.
I heard one YouTuber say, you know,
that happens to be once your glasses warm up.
No, I'm in the middle of summer and my glasses were warm
and they're still fogging up, as you can see.
So, the stuff that has worked for me
and works really well actually,
is the first thing is the most simple one,
you just take a Kleenex and you fold it up,
you could even make a kind of accordion type, you know?
And you put it in place and you put the mask over the top
of the, this might be a little hard for me to do
when I'm not in front of a mirror,
but already it creates a seal or barrier.
See, right now it's not foggy.
- It may be a little more comfortable with time.
- It is real comfortable 'cause what we're seeing,
I've seen with nurses they're wearing these all day,
they're getting skin break down here,
they're reacting to the metal.
There's a little adjustable metal piece in here
that you can help shape it around your nose.
- Right, to help the seal.
- But that doesn't do the full job,
but this really helped.
If you want to also include with this,
you could actually tape this down in place too,
so you just put some tape on both sides here
and what I have here is a surgical tape, kind of.
- Could you get that at the pharmacy, the local pharmacy?
- Yeah, yeah, this is available everywhere.
- Buy it online, whatever.
- Buy it online, that's where I bought it.
It's hypoallergenic, it's for sensitive skin,
but let me tell you this, this skin is really sensitive,
I mean really sensitive and you put it up there
and you seal it down, I don't know again
if I'm pinching it all and that does the same job.
If you wanted to really make sure,
you could do this and this.
- Duct tape doesn't work.
- No, duct tape would not be sensitive,
but when you pull this off, I mean this does not feel good.
I can't even find it.
- It bites a little bit.
Yeah, it's a lot better if you're in front of a mirror.
- I can just, if that was on all day
I think that would irritate.
Brad and I have seen this,
we work with the tape that we place on for knee problems
and like, Chondromalacia and stuff like that
and I have had patients that have used it for weeks
without a problem and then the third week they come in
and it's all red and irritated.
- Over time it. - Over time it seems like
it irritates the skin, now there's a little more friction
there because of the way it's being used,
but almost most patients after like, two or three weeks
it starts to get red.
I could see the same thing happening.
Now, if you're in a pinch and you don't have
some of this tape and you wanna try,
you could take a couple band aids.
So Brad's got a band aid there,
he's gonna see if he can
do it with that. - There we go.
- It's like applying your makeup without a mirror.
- Yeah, I didn't put my makeup on this morning, Bob.
Look at that though, huh?
- Good job, well done.
- I got another one, but I'm not gonna take the time
to put it on because well, this side doesn't fog up.
I'm just kidding.
- So this is the by the way, the N95 mask
and we can have these because we work with patients
who are under quarantine actually,
this is one of the ones I use with them actually.
- That one is one?
- That's an N95, yeah.
- Oh, it doesn't have the valve on it.
- Well it's an N95.
- Okay, then it's gonna filter.
- Yeah and Brad and I were having a discussion
about these, you know again, these serve
to prevent droplets if you sneeze or you cough,
but they really don't protect another person
even from the air born virus,
'cause it could go right through it.
- Right, it's too coarse,
the virus could go right through it
and then so, and then if you're like this
it doesn't seal very well around here
and there's a number of issues with these,
so it's really nice to have the N95.
We realize it's very difficult to obtain them.
- To obtain these and also we wear the goggles now,
because they do believe it goes through the eyes.
- Oh, sure.
- And we actually have sometimes the goggles
or sometimes the full face shields,
but those too fog up and that's why,
I mean it's really pertinent that you actually
keep things sealed so that,
it starts just blowing down this way usually
is what happens I think.
- Right and then there's the audible part,
you can't hear if you're working
with some of the hard of hearing,
that really is challenging with, you know.
- It's an awful situation,
I mean it's so not optimal.
- People out in the health field
know exactly what we're talking about.
- And then you're trying to, you know,
you have to watch what your hands are doing
and you got gowns on, you got,
it's a terrible situation,
luckily I go on and do evaluations,
they don't take very long,
but to have to wear that all day, oh my gosh.
- Yeah, these people are really.
- They are heroes on the frontline.
- You gotta take your hats off to them.
- I don't have a hat on.
All right, thanks everybody for watching.
- Enjoy.