January 21st, 2010 
lia A study in Hong Kong showed that routine hand washing and wearing masks could reduce the risk of transmission of influenza virus among family members when properly implemented.
The findings, published in the medical journal Annals of Internal Medicine, the situation is considered critical to the pandemic, as the number of patients should be quarantined at home when the hospitals lack isolation facilities.
“During the pandemic period, the existing resources are inadequate for all patients infected with the flu satisfaction, and quarantine methods will be needed at home,” write the researchers.
“Our results found that hand hygiene and the use of masks, the transmission of the virus or as soon as possible after symptoms begin to appear in the first patient was infected with the virus.”
Under the guidance of health experts, Ben Cowling of the University of Hong Kong, the researchers examined a number of positive patients suffering from an influenza A or B.
With relatives of patients, often from people who previously one of the following three groups: those who care, a group that regularly washing his hands, and groups that regularly washing hands and wearing masks.
Of the 259 households involved in the study were 60 households found to be infected with the virus in a period of seven days after these measures were introduced. However, fewer infections in households where two points are well conditioned.
“The hand hygiene and masks seem to prevent the spread of the disease in the household when applied within 36 hours of the patients early symptoms of the disease,” write the researchers.
“These findings suggest that treatment with no pharmaceutical help for the Inter-pandemic and pandemic influenza to reduce.”
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