Experts appreciated the advice to do inhalations with vodka to protect against "omicron"

The advice of Academician of the Russian Academy of Sciences Sergei Kolesnikov to inhale vodka to protect against the omicron strain of CORONAVIRUS is rather strange, since ALCOHOL does not kill viruses, but vodka kills mucous cells and everything. Larisa Popovich, DIRECTOR of the Institute for HEALTH Economics at the National Research University Higher School of Economics, told RBC about this.

“Of course, alcohol has an antiseptic effect, but it certainly does not kill viruses. At least when inhaled. There is a nasal form of the vaccine - it can be effective because it has a component that causes an immune response. And vodka kills both mucous cells and everything in a row, ”Popovich said.

She recommended wiping hands with alcohol, as it gives a disinfectant effect, but she did not advise inhaling alcohol. “And vodka, if you really use it, then for ingestion, and then extremely rarely, on holidays,” the expert added.

Associate Professor of the Department of Infectious Diseases at RUDN University Sergey Voznesensky also told RBC that the recommendation to carry out inhalations of vodka to reduce infection with "omicron" is devoid of any meaning.

“The first point is that vodka is not alcohol. It does not have the same virucidal effect, that is, it does not destroy the virus in the same way that alcohol would. The second is that the masks that we use are not designed according to their technical characteristics to be applied with a liquid substance, ”explained Voznesensky.