The researchers mainly looked at the filter value, whether it fits well with the face and whether you can breathe through it.
“Research showed that some self-made masks – if well made – sometimes even worked better than medical masks”, says Gwen Teesing, researcher Social Health Care Erasmus MC against EditieNL. Together with Delft University of Technology and Franciscus Gasthuis & Vlietland, she researched self-made mouth masks.
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“It’s alright including masks made of filter material used in duckbill-shaped ventilation systems. “
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Another well-functioning mask, according to Teesing, is made of two layers of cotton with kitchen paper in between.
Comfort
“That also appears to filter well. Furthermore, it is very important that the mask fits well. That is safer and also more comfortable. For example, if your glasses fog up all the time, I can imagine that you wear the mask less well. we not investigated. “
But how difficult is it to make a face mask yourself? Not everyone is equally handy. Lieke Arens of ‘Mondieus’ has now made more than three hundred mouth masks.
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“I made costumes for the theater world, but because of corona that was completely silent. Then I started making masks”, she tells EditieNL.
Pattern
She takes about twenty minutes with one mouth mask. “I make them from double-layer cotton, which I like to breathe well. Moreover, cotton fits very well.”
Do you want to get started yourself? Then you can here the pattern use van Lieke for a mouth mask.
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