Mouthwash might be able to kill coronavirus in your mouth, but it won’t cure you

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  • Mouthwash can stop the spread of the novel coronavirus, new research suggests, but it can’t save you from becoming infected.
  • Lab tests involving mouthwash that contains active ingredients that can interact with the chemical structure of the virus showed that the virus could be killed.
  • Reducing the viral load in the mouth could also reduce transmission. Still, the person will continue to be infected with the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which will keep replicating in upper and lower airway cells.
  • Researchers are going to study the effects of mouthwash on COVID-19 patients to see if they can replicate the lab tests, and measure how long the viral load reduction lasts after a patient uses mouthwash.

During the early days of the novel coronavirus pandemic, you may have seen messages that went viral on social media that said that mouthwash could kill the coronavirus and prevent COVID-19 infections. That’s a myth you should not have given any importance to. But teams of researchers have gone ahead and studied the chemical properties of various mouthwash products and concluded that some of them could kill the virus in the oral cavity. That’s not to say that the infection is prevented or that mouthwash can cure patients.

It’s one thing to reduce the viral load in the mouth, which could then reduce the spread of the virus for a limited time. But it’s quite another to eliminate the infection from the entire body. Once the virus infects cells in your nose and lower airways, it’s able to multiply, and the thousands of new copies will continue to infect other cells, just as the immune system kicks in and starts mounting a defense, with or without the help of meds.

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