Eyeglass wearers, a question

[fred hargis]

My wife doesn't get out much anymore, she's high risk and chooses to stay home. But when she does go shopping she wears a mask, normally a surgical disposal type. She also wears eyeglasses, and I watched her struggle to see through the fogged up glasses as we were in the store last Tuesday. Does anyone have a practical workaround for this problem? I'm aware of some anti-foggin compounds but so far she's resisted using them. If I managed to get some of the N95 masks would the fogging still be a problem?

 

[Bill Arnold]

I've noticed other folks with glasses using a KN95 Mask. It appears to envelope the nose to help keep one's breath away from glasses.

 

[larry merlau]

another tip is to wrap the strings down and then up so the tension pulls down from eyes then around ear..

 

[fred hargis]

Thanks Bill, I just placed an order for some to try them out. Larry, I'll ask here to try the string trick as well. Thanks!

 

[Leo Voisine]

I find that if I bend the nose piece in a certain way the glasses fogging get better. I don't believe I could describe the way I do it.

I can say it will be really nice to get past all of this pandemic stuff.

 

[glenn bradley]

With everyone having different shaped heads, specific recommendations can be difficult. These have worked well for us but, still have some fogging depending on how cold it is. In controlled climates they are pretty fog free. We are retired and don't go out except as required.

We keep a couple masks in each car and have ones we carry when we go out. We have enough so that there are always clean ones available. I have an oblong face. Your glasses frame size and shape will come into play as well. Glasses with a shorter dimension top to bottom may fog less than more rounded glasses where the bottom of the frame is lower on the face.

 

[Chuck Ellis]

I only use reading glasses and only when needing see up close... biggest problem is when I'm doing the Farmer's Market and have to see the phone to do a credit card... I'll try the string trick and see if that works...

 

[Darren Wright]

The few times I've noticed it, I've let my glasses down to the tip of my nose where they weren't right over the top of the mask, and it seemed to help

 

[Don Baer]

The few times I've noticed it, I've let my glasses down to the tip of my nose where they weren't right over the top of the mask, and it seemed to help

I would do that but then it wouldn't help much because then I wouldn't be able to see....lol

 

[allen levine]

I find that if I bend the nose piece in a certain way the glasses fogging get better. I don't believe I could describe the way I do it.

I can say it will be really nice to get past all of this pandemic stuff.

I watched a video somewhere online a while back, and it suggested the same thing....if you bend the nose piece solidly against the nose then overlap your glasses it prevents most fog up.....I use disposable paper masks, and when I take the time to fit the mask like that it works. takes some adjusting.

 

[Steve Southwood]

If only out for a short time, bend mask best as possible to fit, then clear Scotch tape across top.

Basically tape seal the top to your face. All our exhaust has to go down then. Somewhat hinkey way to doing it, but it's 2020 so it should be expected.

 

[fred hargis]

I only use reading glasses and only when needing see up close... biggest problem is when I'm doing the Farmer's Market and have to see the phone to do a credit card... I'll try the string trick and see if that works...

I tried the string trick Larry mentioned yesterday with my sunglasses, but only for a few minutes. But it did seem to eliminate the fogging. So, I've ordered some masks that Bill recommended, and I'll also order a couple of the ones Glenn mentioned. Like Leo, I'll sure be glad when this is over. Thanks for all the advice!

 

[Dan Noren]

i don't know if this will work, i will have to try it myself, but, there is the old way of keeping a mirror in the bathroom from fogging up by using a small amount of shaving cream, and rubbing it on the mirror until it was gone.

 

[Dave Hawksford]

I have a hard enough time breathing these day much less adding CO2 back in my lungs. I don't ware them above my nose.

 

[Jonathan Shively]

In the shop I have students clean their safety glasses with a dryer sheet, seems to help with the fogging issue better.

 

[Bill Arnold]

I have a hard enough time breathing these day much less adding CO2 back in my lungs. I don't ware them above my nose.

That defeats the purpose of wearing a mask. Nose above a mask means you're expelling any virus you might be carrying instead of the mask trapping it.

 

[Paul Douglass]

I think if the glasses are fogging,,, the mask is not working... If breath is going out other then through the mask,,, the virus can go out and come in... If you have a beard,,,, most masks to not work also.... that is why I think masks are really not doing much good. I wear one because it makes my wife happy, and if it catches some virus, maybe that is good... Keeping my wife happy is really enough reason for me...
We had a real scare the other day.. Got our flu shots and my got real sick,, like could not get out of bed for two days... She feels much better now, but scared both of us... I did not have a reaction and my wife has not before either. I did have a co-worker many years ago, get a flu shot and ended up in the hospital in a coma.. He was in a coma for three days. He recovered... but that is scary...

 

[Dan Noren]

I have a hard enough time breathing these day much less adding CO2 back in my lungs. I don't ware them above my nose.

i got thrown out from menard's for just that dave. never going back....

sounds like my coworker paul. got a flu shot, spent the next 3 days throwing up everything but her shoes. same with my dad's neighbors, got talked into flu shots by the kids, got the flu, both of them.

 

[Jonathan Shively]

I got the flu, pneumonia and shingle shots same night both arms. That night my arms were so sore I had to sleep on my back/in my chair. That way for at least three days. Got sick, sicker than a dog, hold a bucket and sit on toilet sick. Missed a week of school. They said stomach flu. Covid tested before allowed back at school, negative. Not getting more than one shot at a time from now on.

Don't care how I wear or what type of mask I wear, driving bus in the morning in the cold, just put my glasses up on the bill of my cap.

 

[Don Baer]

MY PCP wanted to know why I don't get a flu shot and I told her they gave me the flu. She said that's impossible since the virus is inert and I said well the inert virus makes me sick. She dropped the subject.