JUST TO SHARE (Lau Tai Onn): Making Our Own Face Masks by Dr. JB Lim

The blogger’s note: Dr. JB Lim wrote to the blogger after his recommendations for steam inhalation against Covid virus were posted in this blog last night as follows:

Date: 25/05/2021 @ 1.24 am

Sifu Ir Lau. It is good to share whatever we know for the benefit of others.

Why don't you also post the article I wrote about making our own face masks, and how they should be worn wet impregnated with boiled dilute starch solution and a mixture of antiviral oil and kept wet all the time with a small bottle of water spray without taking the mask off when going out, but at home fill up the room air with vapours of these antiviral oils from a nebuliser?

Also I forgot to add before going to the tailor to make these personalised masks, take a measuring tape and measure the length across your face from ear to ear and just below the eyes right down to cover well below the chin at the neck. Then give these measurements to the tailor.

Ensure the 4 strings to tie behind the back of the head are long enough.

I think two layers of thin cotton cloth sewed together are better than a single thick one.

Add that additional info for me into your blog and share it out.

Hope it helps. I try my best.

Lim jb

P/s: The reason I suggest two thin layers of cloth sewed together is better than a single layer of thick cloth for the home made mask is because the pores and fibres the two layers would not be directly in line with each other.

This makes it harder for the virus to find a direct entry through, whereas a single layer has all the pores and fibre arrangements in just the same direction like an open door.

Furthermore, two layers will provide double layers of coating of the mixture of antiviral oils and film of water between, and hence when the outer layer is saturated with the virus if we assume, we still have the inner second layer which is cleaner. This would be like changing the mask for a new one.

This is far more logical than having a single layer mask.

You may add this explanation in.

Thanks.

The blogger’s note: The articles Dr. JB Lim mentioned above that he wrote to his Golden Ox chat group are as follows:

21/5/2021 @ 7.56 pm

I think I have already written twice explaining in different ways why masks are completely useless trying to filter out such tiny tiny particles like SARS-CoV-2 virus or even much larger viruses.

However, if others still insist on wearing loosely fitted commercial masks, let me explain how you can make your own much more efficient ones that can be used again and again by washing.

First buy a metre of a thick cotton cloth, and ask your tailor to cut them into several small pieces large enough to cover almost your entire face from just below your eyes, down to your entire mouth and down to the lower part of your chin to almost to your neck.

On both sides of your cheeks up to near the ears need to be covered by a large enough piece of your home made cloth mask.

Next, stitch a string on the each of the 4 corners of the mask long enough to tie two of them at the top on the back of your head, and two of the lower strings at the back of your neck like a surgeon.

Wash them thoroughly before use and each time after use.

Next, before using, soak the mask in dilute solution of starch in which various types of antiviral aromatic oils are added, the list of these oils I have already given in the article in my blog.

The purpose of soaking in a dilute solution of boiled starch is to make the mask sticky and gummy to trap all dusts including SARS-CoV-2 virus in the inhaled air.

Not just that mechanism alone.

Both the starch and water molecules will occupy all the holes and close up all the gaps between the fibres and the tiny holes in between, thus giving no chance of any virus to enter between hundreds of thousands of holes between these fibres.

The molecular adhesion of both the water and starch molecules are quite strong and this additionally will also trap even particles sub below the size of any virus trying to enter.

However for this mechanism to work, the mask MUST be kept wet all the time.

This can be partly be achieved by moisture exhaled by the breath.

But to ensure it is almost 100% effective, carry with you a small bottle of water spray, and spray the water onto your mask without taking it off when the mask begins to dry up.

This is the best I can offer you.

Thank you

Lim jb

21/5/2021 @ 9.51 pm

On a question from a member of the chat group as to how to keep the mask moist all the time, Dr. Lim replied as follows:

I told you to wash your mask often before and after use.

8 hours is not too long compared to many people who don't even change their loosely fitting commercial mask at all.

These people keep wearing the same mask for months without changing them.

That is why I ask people to make their own really tightly fitting masks, many of them can be made with just one meter of thick cotton cloth, maybe 2 dozens of them out of 1 metre.

Wearing the same mask for 8 working hours is just as effective as a newly washed one as I told you to wet it with boiled dilute starch solutions on which several antivirus aromatic oils are also added.

Then wet them again by just spraying water on the mask when it begins to dry out after 3 hours or so.

Takes just 5 seconds to spray a mist of water on it.

What's so difficult about this?

I don’t think there are so much of this virus in the air that your mask gets saturated with them even after 24 hours.

Just wash them like clothes when you get home. They are so small that you can wash them under a running tap unlike clothes where you need a washing machine.

The dilute solution of boiled starch and 0.5 to 1 mls of mixed antiviral oils in one litre of water can be kept for months in a container in a refrigerator.