Is the Disinfection Wipes Useful?

We might all be familiar with wet tissue, which is common in our life, after hands washing or during travel. It is commonly like this:

However, in current situation, can such a ordinary wet tissue help us to defend against 2019-nCoV? Actually, the answer is negative. In this case, which kind of wet tissue is the most helpful? Disinfection wipe is an acceptable answer.

1. What is disinfection wipe?

According to Management Specification for Environmental Surface Cleaning and Disinfection in Medical Institutions, for disinfection wipe, non-woven, fabric, dust-free paper or other material as carrier, purified water as production water, as well as some disinfectant, are used for cleaning and disinfection. Therefore, disinfection wipes are applicable to disinfect skin, object surface and medical instrument surface.

2. What ingredient do disinfection wipes contain?

Generally, disinfection wipes are made from purified water, spunlace nonwoven, 1,2-propanadiol, benzalkonium chloride and additives such as preservative.

3. Can disinfection wipes disinfect or sterilize?

Yes, they can. They can be used to clean hands, table and chairs before and after dining or without water and soap. However, its function is limited. Some other sterilization wipes can be more effective to kill germ and virus and even prevent virus from variation.

4. Are disinfection wipes safe?

Disinfection wipes of good quality are safe. Nevertheless, users should pay attention to some harmful ingredients of wipe of low quality, such as chlorine, bleaching powder, alcohol, and preservatives. They will irritate skin and eye. Especially, long-time use of preservative will lead to contact dermatitis, or synthesize active agent to destroy sebum membrane of skin. As some experts suggest, it’s better to not clean face with wet tissue, especially not wipe eye, middle ear and mucosa with them directly.

5. The expiry date of disinfection wipes

Once disinfection wipe package is opened, the wipes should be used up quickly. Their expiry date before opening is 2 years, while after opening, it shortens to 3 months. Besides, after opening, wipes should be stored in a cool and shady place.

Actually, disinfection wipes might be a future trend. However, if not necessary, soap can be a cheap and fine alternative for disinfection wipes.

6. The advantage of single sachet four-side sealing disinfection wipes?

It contains one or two pieces of wipes, including the sterilizing solution. As it is convenient to bring, so we can take them anywhere we go, for example, when we go for picnic, have dinner, travel outside, go to hospital, clean before injection etc.You will feel relieved to have some sachets of the sterilizing tissue in your pocket wherever you go.

How the antibacterial wipes are produced on the machine, please refer to the following machine information