Wearing sanitary masks during sleep reduces common cold symptoms

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  • Kawamoto Masahiro
    Department of Otolaryngology, Ikeda City Hospital
  • Inohara Hidenori
    Department of Otorhinolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine

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  • 睡眠時マスクによるかぜ症状の軽減効果

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Background: In Japan, sanitary masks have proven useful in ameliorating common cold symptoms, but scientific findings remain largely to be defined.<br>Subjects and Methods: We randomly allocated 72 subjects with common colds at our medical institutes to 2 groups—32 wearing sanitary masks on a 24-hour basis until symptoms had completely disappeared and 40 (control group) wearing masks during daytime alone. Over a 1-week course, subjects filled out symptom questionnaires daily before bed and after rising. We then compared clinical effects on a visual-analog scale for sore and dry throat, cough and sputum, and cold contraction.<br>Results: Statistically, subjects with 24-hour mask wear got well more quickly (p<0.05) than those in the control group, and cough and sputum scores were significantly reduced (p<0.05).<br>Conclusions: Sanitary-mask wear during sleep appears to reduce common cold symptoms.

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  • Stomato-pharyngology

    Stomato-pharyngology 24 (2), 129-133, 2011

    Japan Society of Stomato-pharyngology

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