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BBC - Mouthwash 'can kill COVID virus in lab in 30 seconds'
2020-11-18
[BBC] Mouthwash can kill coronavirus within 30 seconds of being exposed to it in a lab, a scientific study indicates.

Scientists at Cardiff University found there were "promising signs" that over-the-counter mouthwashes may help to destroy the virus.

The report comes ahead of a clinical trial on Covid-19 on patients at the University Hospital of Wales.

Dr Nick Claydon said the study could lead to mouthwash becoming an important part of people's routines.

While the research suggests use of mouthwash may help kill the virus in saliva, there is not evidence it could be used as a treatment for coronavirus, as it will not reach the the respiratory tract or the lungs.

Dr Claydon, a specialist periodontologist, said: "If these positive results are reflected in Cardiff University's clinical trial, CPC-based mouthwashes... could become an important addition to people's routine, together with hand washing, physical distancing and wearing masks, both now and in the future."
Posted by:Besoeker

#11  Coca-Cola can dissolve nails...eventually. Inside humans is different.
Posted by: magpie   2020-11-18 20:38  

#10  By far the stupidest thing I've come across today concerning The 'Rona, is some playboy type story about a health care worker "stopping at a gas station for drink when a couple smokers are joking about the rona".

Perhaps you've seen it?

It is paired with an image of two health care workers in face, mask, glove, scrubs. Its super powerful you all, embracing each other as they embrace the suck.

Touching each others' faces FFS. What is this bullshit? Its worse then that New Yorker with the health care gal playing on her feces touch screen phone.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-11-18 12:42  

#9  By this pm:

half the women gargle after every encounter, spit it on the sidewalk.

Mouthwash, isopropyl, tide pods sold out.

Florida Woman has reversed a nasal irrigater to spray bath salt and Dr. Pepper up the nose.
Posted by: swksvolFF   2020-11-18 12:37  

#8  That'll be next...pocket-sized mouthwash to go everywhere with you. I am suspicious of this report in a way. Sure, it may be true and mouthwash may be efficacious, but, really, are they then implying that we should gargle all day? When we come inside the house? Should the virus be present in the mouth (which we wouldn't know), when is it too late to use the mouthwash? It's either feel-good stuff or a little plug for the pharma/mouthwash industry.
Posted by: Clem   2020-11-18 12:25  

#7  I suppose the alcohol in some mouthwashes (mine, for instance) has a similar effect on viruses and bacteria as the alcohol in hand sanitizer.

As long as you catch it before it gets into the lungs, that is.
Posted by: Bobby   2020-11-18 12:15  

#6  /\ Reminds me of the Monty Python skit when they were in Australia hunting mosquito.
Posted by: Clem   2020-11-18 11:18  

#5  A single shot from a .22 will kill a virus in a millisecond. The trick is drawing a bead on the little sumbitches.
Posted by: SteveS   2020-11-18 11:17  

#4  Now how am I supposed to use mouthwash if they are beating everybody up about wearing a mask?
Posted by: Clem   2020-11-18 10:30  

#3  ^Sniff it instead of coke?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-11-18 09:22  

#2  If Trump said this the media would report that he wants us to inject mouthwash into our arteries, or maybe inhale it.
Posted by: Glenmore   2020-11-18 08:42  

#1  And vodka kills in in 25 seconds - so what?
Posted by: g(r)omgoru   2020-11-18 06:04  

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