Practical everyday helper
This simple liquid protects against corona
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Researchers were able to show that the use of a mouthwash can temporarily prevent the transmission of the coronavirus. Accordingly, the liquid can kill viruses.
While the vaccinations against the coronavirus are still rather slow in this country, scientists are still looking for effective ways to prevent the virus from being transmitted. Now Federal Health Minister Jens Spahn (CDU) recommends a fairly simple way to contain the pandemic. According to this, conventional mouthwash should reduce the viral load and thus at least temporarily prevent other people from being infected with the coronavirus. Different research teams were able to independently prove a corresponding effect.
Not a permanent solution
However, it should be noted that the use of mouthwash cannot replace a vaccination against the coronaviruses. Because the mouthwash only works in the oropharynx, but we also exhale the viruses through the nose. Accordingly, you should not do without breathing masks or vaccinations.
Special mouthwashes against the coronavirus have already been developed
According to WDR, doctors at the Clinic for Otorhinolaryngology at the Bielefeld Clinic, together with the pharmaceutical manufacturer Dr. Wolff a special mouth and throat solution has been developed that is supposed to reduce the viral load by up to 90 percent. The solution has already been tested on Covid 19 patients with the first promising results. Further studies are planned. 10,000 vials of the special oropharynx solution were used as a supplementary protective measure by the pharmaceutical manufacturer Dr. Wolff has already donated to Bielefeld hospitals, the Protestant Bethel Clinic and the Franziskus Hospital.
The first study to suggest that simple mouthwash can kill the coronavirus was published by Cardiff University researchers back in May 2020. According to the data, the mouthwash can act similarly to a corona drug and destroy the viruses. Virologists from the Ruhr University Bochum, together with their colleagues from Jena, Ulm, Duisburg-Essen, Nuremberg and Bremen, came to a similar result in another study.
During the investigation in Bochum were a total of eight mouthwashes with different ingredients mixed with a substance that is supposed to imitate human saliva. Virus particles were then added to this mixture. Since mouthwash is normally gargled, the researchers shook the mixture and finally checked the remaining virus content – which had decreased significantly.