Healthy Herald is not necessary to leave the shoes away from home for the coronavirus

It is not necessary to leave the shoes away from home every time it turns from the street because it is an excessive precaution against coronavirus, despite the fact that this council circulates strongly in recent days through messaging networks and platforms, attributed to aMilanese hospital doctor.

The message, profusely shared in WhatsApp, states that "a doctor who works in a hospital in Milan rigorously recommends that a single pair of shoes be used to get out of the house and leave it out of the door of the house once used, because it seems to bethat the virus can remain for 9 hours in the asphalt ".

Data: Leaving shoes at the door before entering home is not an absurd advice as a precautionary measure, but unnecessary by excessive.

Dr. Jaime Barrio, of the Scientific Council of the Official College of Physicians of Madrid (ICOMEM), illustrates this argument with the following example: to completely avoid the risk of infection, the ideal would be for all to carry individual protection teams such as those that areThey use in hospitals to prevent infections, but it would be excessive when you do not deal with infected people.

Therefore, in the same way that no one recommends the daily use of special protection glasses to prevent an infected drop can reach the eyes directly, it is not necessary to leave the shoes away from home to prevent a possible particle with the attached virusTo the sole can reach someone's eyes or mouth.

Thus, Dr. Barrio, the words of the director of the Coordination of alerts and Health Emergencies, Fernando Simón, who, in his appearance on Monday, stressed: "We do not have to go further than reasonable (...) It is not necessary to leave the shoes away from home.Not at all".

Simon responded in this way "not to generate a state of extreme anxiety", because it is "very rare" that COVID-19 can end up infecting someone on that way, indicates the expert of the Scientific Council of the College of Physicians of Madrid, whoIn any case, the national and international health authorities advise disinfecting all the surfaces that may have been in contact with the virus and the soil is one of them.

In the case of homes where someone lives with confirmed, probable or in investigation of COVID-19, the Ministry of Health recommends cleaning and disinfecting daily with "a domestic disinfectant containing bleach" the surfaces that are frequently touched (among thewhich expressly quotes tables at night, bedrooms and bedroom furniture), as well as those of the bathroom and toilet.

On the other hand, the shoes also equals clothes for the purposes of preventive disinfection measures that are advised in these spaces where there is some person infected or susceptible to having been infected by the Coronavirus.

On whether the virus can remain nine hours in the asphalt, Dr. Barrio warns that at the moment it is unknown if it resists more or less time and to what extent varies depending on the temperature.

As explained by the World Health Organization (WHO) on its official website, it is not known with certainty how long the COVID-19 virus survives on a surface, but seems to behave like other coronavirus, which can survive in it from a few hoursUntil several days.Time can vary depending on conditions such as surface type, temperature or environmental humidity.

Given the suspicion that a surface can be infected, WHO recommends cleaning it with a common disinfectant to kill the virus, wash your hands with a disinfectant with alcohol or with soap and water and avoid touching your eyes, mouth or nose.

In summary: Leaving the shoes that have been used in the street away from home is an additional precautionary measure against COVID-19, but excessive and, therefore, unnecessary.