Here is How to Wear a Face Mask Without Fogging Up Your Glasses
We have been talking about face masks like crazy over here. especially since the CDC recommended that everyone wear one. Everything from how to make them from t-shirts, fabric, socks, underwear, leggings, paper towels, and bandanas.
We’ve told you how to wear a face mask and how to wash a face mask. We’ve even posted about the best things to use as a filters for face masks. But we haven’t talked about how to keep them from fogging up your eyeglasses. This is an issue!
When your breath escapes our homemade masks (they don’t fit as well as real medical masks), it usually comes out from the top, straight up into your glasses. Which of course will fog up your eyeglasses.
There are some things you can do to help ease this issue a bit. You may have to try a few different things.
The masks some of us are using and making do not fit properly by form fitting to our faces as well as some medical masks. Our breath will come out warm and hit our glasses which will be cooler than our breath. Then the lenses will fog up.
There are a few things you can try to help avoid this. The first would be to wash your glasses with soapy water. There was a study in a 2011 medical journal that addressed the issue for doctors.
Immediately before wearing a face mask, wash the spectacles with soapy water and shake off the excess. Then, let the spectacles air dry or gently dry off the lenses with a soft tissue before putting them back on. Now the spectacle lenses should not mist up when the face mask is worn.
From the study in the Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England
This will help for a few hours or so and then you will have to repeat the washing. There are spray-on anti-fog chemicals for this, but who knows how long that will take to get and you most likely already have soap and water.
Another thing you can do is to take a tissues and fold it. Place this inside your mask at the bridge of your nose. This can help by absorbing the moisture before it escapes.
Hopefully the combination of the suggestions above can help you out a bit!
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