Respiratory Hygiene
(Room Lanier Grand Ballroom J)
28 Aug 21
4:30 PM
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5:45 PM
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Speaker (Non-Member)
Americans die 23 times faster from Covid-19 than Japanese, who have long employed a simplified form of respiratory hygiene as a broad public health program. Respiratory hygiene is a safe, free, universally available, one-minute, nonpharmaceutical intervention that mitigates oral pathogens and thereby chronic inflammatory disease as well. Anyone who has a toothbrush and can blow their nose can do it (a toothbrush is desirable but not required). Pathogenic microbes in the mouth seed the entire body with inflammation. Brushing your teeth with just your finger prevents 10 percent of hospital pneumonia deaths; gargling prevents 36 percent of upper respiratory tract infections; the 20 billion microbes in your mouth at bedtime multiply to 50 billion while you sleep; brushing teeth does nothing to address the microbes on your tongue, cheeks, and palate. Respiratory hygiene might annually save 400,000 to 1 million lives from acute lower respiratory infections; 5,000 to 125,000 lives and $7 billion to $17 billion from non-Covid-19 viral respiratory infections; 162,000 lives and $35 billion annually from Alzheimer’s disease; and $10 billion annually in dental decay. It might have saved 300,000 of the now 3 million Covid-19 deaths. Learn how to swish, gargle, spit, and blow away inflammatory illness.