In Ireland, one doctor has taken to social media to debunk the common myth that oxygen levels drop while wearing a face mask.
In the video, as O Tuathail strapped on mask after mask, the monitor displayed a steady 99 percent oxygen level. “That’s consistent whether you wear six masks for one minute or for the entire day. The level of oxygen in your blood won’t change,” O Tuathail says, per“Getting asked “does wearing a face mask lower your oxygen levels?” repeatedly by patients today! Based on what they are reading on social media,” O Tuathail wrote on Twitter.
“Because oxygen molecules are so tiny, they can permeate through whatever it is you put on your face, no matter how long you leave it on your face for,” O Tuathail said.addressing the belief that masks make it difficult to breath and drop oxygen levels. Add to that Kirsten Koehler’s — an associate professor in environmental health and engineering at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in Baltimore, Maryland. — statement that “scientific studies [show] that there’s no real important changes in C02 levels or oxygen levels even from wearing surgical masks.”. “It’s not something that I’m concerned about at all. Probably more likely is that people are hot when wearing a mask and so people maybe just feeling overheated.
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