Today's video is for you my four eyed friends my glass loving people and for
those who can't get LASIK surgery and are danged stuck with these darn glasses. The
problem with the glasses is when we wear a mask they tend to fog up quickly so
we're going to look at several different strategies that have been presented
online to help me and to help you work without the worry of foggy glasses. Let's
get started. Welcome back my name is Tammy and this is NurseMinder and on
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Hey there in today's video we are talking about seven different hacks that
I have seen on the internet to try and keep these glasses from fogging up.
Today's video is all for mine my colleagues who suffer like me wearing
glasses. Now tip number one is to wash your glasses with soap and water and let
them air dry. So what I've just shown you is I've washed the left lens it's still
air drying here and just so I can see the difference and I'm going to leave the
right lens without the soap and water and then we're going to do a stress test
to see if those lenses fog up the same or different. Now to put my mask on I am
actually these one of my handy little do-it-yourself
hacks that I talked about in a previous video and I will pop that up here for you and
it was all it was like 11 different hacks on how to keep your ear loops off
your ears and because we're gonna be working with this for a little while I
definitely don't wanna be hurting my ear so I'm gonna put this on.
Okay there we go so this is the glass with the soap and water this is the
glass lens without it let's do a quick stress test. (blowing air)
Well they do both fog up but I feel like the left lens is not quite as quick to
fog up and maybe it's not as full as the other ones let's try that again.
That's a pretty big sigh.
So they are still both fogging up fairly significantly I don't notice a huge
difference with the stress test. What's interesting on the review of the
video footage is that the actual left lens the one that's with the soap and
the water the biggest hack that's all over the
internet that says will work to stop your fogging
it's actually the most fogged lens out of the two and it kind of lingers
around as you watch it. So notice this one starts to clear but left eye is still foggy
What you can see here is the right lens appears to be completely cleared off it comes
and goes quickly but it seems to be hanging and lingering on on the inner, in
the middle side of this lens here and it just seems to hang out there, that's
weird. So I'm gonna give this hack a thumbs-down. Hack number two is to use
tissue paper, now the idea around tissue paper we're going to use this to dampen
the movement of air out of the top of our mask and it can capture some of the
moisture and so I've just grabbed, I probably need one of these pieces, I just
grabbed a single ply of toilet paper I'm going to fold it in four and put this on my
mask. So I've got my mask here and I'm just gonna put the tissue paper right in
here on my bridges, form that in there place it on. Okay and so now we've got
some toilet paper in there I can definitely tell that it there I can feel
that there's a different texture let's give it a stress test
I'm still getting fogging in both lenses so again let's try pinch this a little
bit more I'll bring it up a bit higher
okay we'll try this again (blows air) .Let's try one more layer and see if that's going to help
I don't actually enjoy the feeling of the tissue in there it feels a bit
irritating to my nose. Maybe that's a sign of the kind of toilet paper I
buy, no it is quality toilet paper and I don't think tissue paper would be any
different so okay I've now doubled the layer and we'll see if this is any
improvement. I do still get some fogging, moreso actually in the right then the
left and than again may be a sign of how well I've got this pinch along my face.
It's coming up to my glasses still and they are fogging although my left side
is clearing off much faster than the right. So reviewing the video footage for
the tissue paper in the bridge of the mask I did notice that it fogged less
than it would have without it and so there is a slight improvement with the
tissue paper in there however if I can see some issues with that tissue paper
in the sense that it's free-floating and it's going to move around which means it
might be continually falling down your nose
and into the mask or if you're sweating it's going to absorb all that water and
then it's gonna feel probably kind of gross. So in terms of comfort I didn't
enjoy the sensation of the toilet paper on my nose. I wouldn't use this one
long-term but in terms of effectiveness it did reduce the amount of fog in the
glasses so I'm gonna give this a mixed thumbs-up thumbs-down. Now yesterday I was
also playing around with the tissue in the bridge of the nose just to kind of
get a feel for it before I did this recording and what I noticed was that
the volume of tissue had a very important effect on my vision and I'd
like to show that to you here. Okay so it's not even been 30 seconds and I can
tell you one of the things that I'm having issues with right now with the
Kleenex underneath here is that because I wear trifocals, I know I just aged
myself, but because they were trifocals it's shifted my glasses up just enough
that it's actually making me not see that's clearly as I should be able to
see so I'm gonna actually reduce how much tissue is in there. So just let you
know there were actually two sheets of 2 ply toilet paper that were folded up
in that mask at the time and that was creating just enough of a bump that the
sight line for my glasses was raised up and that was not very comfortable so I'm
curious to know if this has worked for you they'll put your comments down below
and let me know if the tissue has actually been effective for you. Now our
next hack is about taking this top where your wireframe is and actually folding
it down so it's on the inside and then use that against your skin let's see and
I'm going to actually double loop it
I like that one, that's fun it doesn't feel like it's sitting on my nose
properly. Let's try tightening that again. I'm getting
some fogging. I'm not finding this particularly comfortable or effective in
terms of decreasing the fogging to my glasses. Now this hack has to do with
where the ties are actually located. So typically we are putting them on our
ears, we're going to try and bridge them up higher on the back of our head and to
do that we're gonna need one of those hacks, those do it yourself' hacks I
taught you in the previous video so let's put this on. Okay so that's
resting up at the top of my head, pinch this in, and it's already starting to
slide so I'm not sure I can get that hack to work. So we're going to just call
that one a failure. The next hack is to do the loop-de-loop
we call it, you take your thing and we're going to loop it and we're going to loop
it so just create a little bit more tension and create little bit more of a
tight seal. Now it seems to be working fairly decently
but I'll tell you what I've noticed. I think this actually leads us into the
next hack and the next hack is to leave a gap and leave space. So right now I
haven't really enforced tightening like it's not pulled back on my head where it is so
tight that there hasn't got anywhere to go in fact it's loose here around the
mouth and so what's happening is that the air has a place to go. So this is our
next hack and that is just to simply relax the mask so it's off your face a
little bit more, keep these gaps open and pinch your nose to just direct the air
down. I definitely feel a lot of air movement inside the mask and moving
outwards to the sides a little bit down but I'm not getting any fogging in my
glasses so I'm gonna give this hack two thumbs up. All right so I think I just
came on to something that's gonna help a lot of you with your glasses and not
getting them to fog. What we noticed here in the picture on the left, this is one
of the earlier hacks that I tried and you can see that the glass is fogged and
then over here this is where I double looped, a loop-de-loop
the mask and I'm wondering if you can see what I can see. I mean I know you can
but can you pick out the difference between these two pictures? What I'm
hoping you notice is that the mask in this picture is straight across under
the eye and that this one because of the loop actually pulls it down and away and
so the air then is force is not up here above my eye socket it's actually below
it which the eye socket is maybe adding another ridge it's directing the air
down but I'm thinking that the fact that this mask is now angled down is actually
part of the reason but I have a wider gap on the side and
the air can escape. Give it a try and let me know in the comments if that works
for you. Now our last hack is tape. We are going to take a small piece of tape and put
it on the top outer edge of your mask so that when you put it on, I'm going to
take my glasses off for this part, you seal it and then put it on. I have it
sealed here right where the air is supposed to go into my glasses (blows air). It
actually works really well. I'm gonna pull this tighter and see how that works.
I am still getting some leaking on this side so let's try a little more tape
shall we.
There we go. Wouldn't you know it, it's still finding its way through there.
Where do I have? That is sealed this looks sealed I don't see any space
there.
I really want to know if this one is going to work so I have it all the way
across, there may be a little gap so, I can't believe I'm taping up my face this
is the most ridiculous thing I've ever done. Let's fill in that hole right there
It feels like it's on there pretty solidly. Let's give it a go and it still
gets through! You know why? Because it's coming through my mask probably! I don't
know if you get to see that but it does fog up on both sides with the tape! So
now I'm starting to think it has nothing to do with this bridge at all it
actually has to do with the air that's coming out of the front of my mask. Oh
yeah I can feel that I can do that pretty good so maybe we've been looking
at the wrong problem this whole time. I'm gonna peel this off now. Okay see here's
the fun part with the tape is now you have to peel it off oh ... owe ... owe
okay not a fan of that one either. Now I just I'll talk about a few other hacks
I've read on the internet and that is use a paper clip or a pipe cleaner
here to create that kind of metal framework and while that will probably
work to give you a little bit more structure around the nose I'm a little
concerned because it won't be underneath the fabric and that we've got an open
edge on our skin with pressure so we could be putting ourselves at risk for
pressure sores,wounds, and if it ends up being dislodged we could end up
getting it in our eyes. So I'm not a big fan of the two ideas therefore the
paperclip or the pipe cleaner. I'd love to hear more from you your experiences
and maybe you have something that I haven't found yet on the Internet to try
and keep these things from fogging up. Please put them in the comments below
share your strategies and let me know how they're working for you and if
you're not ready to go back to work yet don't worry I've got some binge worthy
content coming up right now. :)