Facial masks in children: the position statement of the Italian pediatric society

Facial masks may be one of the most cost-effective strategies to prevent the diffusion of COVID 19 infection. Nevertheless, fake news are spreading, alerting parents on dangerous side effects in children, such as hypercapnia, hypoxia, gut dysbiosis and immune system weakness. Aim of the Italian Pedi...

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Autores principales: Villani, Alberto, Bozzola, Elena, Staiano, Annamaria, Agostiniani, Rino, Del Vecchio, Antonio, Zamperini, Nicola, Marino, Francesco, Vecchio, Davide, Corsello, Giovanni
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7491016/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32933562
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-020-00898-1
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author Villani, Alberto
Bozzola, Elena
Staiano, Annamaria
Agostiniani, Rino
Del Vecchio, Antonio
Zamperini, Nicola
Marino, Francesco
Vecchio, Davide
Corsello, Giovanni
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Bozzola, Elena
Staiano, Annamaria
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description Facial masks may be one of the most cost-effective strategies to prevent the diffusion of COVID 19 infection. Nevertheless, fake news are spreading, alerting parents on dangerous side effects in children, such as hypercapnia, hypoxia, gut dysbiosis and immune system weakness. Aim of the Italian Pediatric Society statement is to face misconception towards the use of face masks and to spread scientific trustable information.
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spelling pubmed-74910162020-09-15 Facial masks in children: the position statement of the Italian pediatric society Villani, Alberto Bozzola, Elena Staiano, Annamaria Agostiniani, Rino Del Vecchio, Antonio Zamperini, Nicola Marino, Francesco Vecchio, Davide Corsello, Giovanni Ital J Pediatr Commentary Facial masks may be one of the most cost-effective strategies to prevent the diffusion of COVID 19 infection. Nevertheless, fake news are spreading, alerting parents on dangerous side effects in children, such as hypercapnia, hypoxia, gut dysbiosis and immune system weakness. Aim of the Italian Pediatric Society statement is to face misconception towards the use of face masks and to spread scientific trustable information. BioMed Central 2020-09-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7491016/ /pubmed/32933562 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s13052-020-00898-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2020 Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated in a credit line to the data.
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Corsello, Giovanni
Facial masks in children: the position statement of the Italian pediatric society
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