Good news, spectacle wearers: their spectacles may offer some extra protection against the new coronavirus, according to the findings of a new study.
In a report published earlier this month on the prepress website medRxiv, the researchers said that those who wear glasses for at least eight hours during the day are less likely to contract the new disease because they touch their eyes less frequently than those who wear glasses. don’t use cups.
In a report published earlier this month on the prepress website medRxiv, the researchers said that those who wear glasses for at least eight hours during the day are less likely to contract the new disease because they touch their eyes less frequently than those who wear glasses. don’t use cups. (iStock)
COVID-19 spreads mainly when a sick person coughs, sneezes, or even speaks, with the infectious particles that pose a risk to healthy people, if they breathe these infectious particles (hence the importance of wearing a mask and measures of social distance). However, the virus can also spread through membranes that protect the eyes, that is, the conjunctiva.
In fact, “touching and rubbing the eyes with contaminated hands can be a significant route of infection for the SARS-CoV-2 virus,” the researchers wrote.
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For the study, the researchers interviewed just over 300 people who were hospitalized due to COVID-19 in India. Patients, aged 10 to 80 years, were asked about their habits of wearing glasses. About 60 patients have been identified as “long-term spectacle wearers,” according to the report.
In the end, the researchers concluded that those who wear glasses have two to three chances of getting COVID-19 compared to those who don’t.
“The present study showed that the risk of COVID-19 was 2-3 times lower in the population that wears glasses than in the population that does not. [The] protective role of glasses was considered statistically significant if they were used to [a] long period of the day, “or more than eight hours, concluded.
The results reinforce previous research on this topic. In a study published in JAMA Ophthalmology in September, for example, Chinese researchers also found that people who wear glasses for long periods of time may be less susceptible to COVID-19.
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“According to reports published in recent years, the prevalence of myopia [or nearsightedness] in China it is now more than 80% of the population, “wrote the study authors at the time.” The use of glasses is common among Chinese of all ages. However, since the COVID-19 outbreak in Wuhan in December 2019, we have observed that few patients with glasses have been admitted to the hospital ward. “
Fox News’s Kayla Rivas contributed to this report.