Spitting Spreads COVID-19 - M.A.Aleem Neurologist Trichy Tamilnadu India

Spitting Spreads COVID-19 

- M.A.Aleem Neurologist Trichy Tamilnadu India 

Many people particularly whose who  smoke chew tobacco beetle leaves gums or having acute or chronic upper or lower respiratory tract infections allergy or asthma have the urge of spitting anywhere and everywhere.

In recent days the risk of catching a contagious disease like COVID-19 is high with spitting. Other diseases like common cold flu TB hepatitis viral meningitis cyromegalovirus herpes virus and Epstein Barr virus and glandular fever can also spread through saliva by spitting. 

Spitting habit of people on roads can intensities the risk of COVID-19 spread.

It is established now that the 

 COVID-19 can transfers through respiratory droplets. When a person randomly spits on the road or any other public place, the chances of the droplets entering eyes, nose or mouth of other people nearby are high. If a person spat in an enclosed room which doesn’t have proper ventilation, the threat of virus transmission would increase even more.

A lot of people around us have the habit of spitting frequently which is dangerous amid the pandemic. Thus, people should maintain cleanliness and hygiene and their surroundings to limit the transmission of diseases, be it COVID-19 or any other communicable disease that transmits through saliva.

Having the need to spit time and again is an old habit of many of us. But the situation is very risky now. A minor negligence of one person might be hazardous to public health and we must consider changing our habits to minimise virus infection.