Could nasal irrigation and oral rinse reduce the risk for COVID-19 infection?

Public health measures are essential to protect against COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The nose and the mouth represent entry portals for the COVID 19. Saline Nasal Irrigations (SNIs) can reduce the viral load in the nasal cavities. Oral rinse with antimicrobial agents is efficacious in reduci...

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Autores principales: Casale, Manuele, Rinaldi, Vittorio, Sabatino, Lorenzo, Moffa, Antonio, Ciccozzi, Massimo
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: SAGE Publications 2020
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Letter to the Editor
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7436790/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32799596
http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2058738420941757
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author Casale, Manuele
Rinaldi, Vittorio
Sabatino, Lorenzo
Moffa, Antonio
Ciccozzi, Massimo
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description Public health measures are essential to protect against COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The nose and the mouth represent entry portals for the COVID 19. Saline Nasal Irrigations (SNIs) can reduce the viral load in the nasal cavities. Oral rinse with antimicrobial agents is efficacious in reducing the viral load in oral fluids. We advocate the inclusion of SNIs and ethanol oral rinses as additional measures to the current public health measures, to prevent and control the transmission of any respiratory infectious disease, including COVID-19.
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spelling pubmed-74367902020-08-31 Could nasal irrigation and oral rinse reduce the risk for COVID-19 infection? Casale, Manuele Rinaldi, Vittorio Sabatino, Lorenzo Moffa, Antonio Ciccozzi, Massimo Int J Immunopathol Pharmacol Letter to the Editor Public health measures are essential to protect against COronaVIrus Disease 2019 (COVID-19). The nose and the mouth represent entry portals for the COVID 19. Saline Nasal Irrigations (SNIs) can reduce the viral load in the nasal cavities. Oral rinse with antimicrobial agents is efficacious in reducing the viral load in oral fluids. We advocate the inclusion of SNIs and ethanol oral rinses as additional measures to the current public health measures, to prevent and control the transmission of any respiratory infectious disease, including COVID-19. SAGE Publications 2020-08-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7436790/ /pubmed/32799596 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2058738420941757 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).
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