Facemasks for adult and children with glasses

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Apologies if this has been done before- I seem to have spent £££ on various types of face mask but can't find anything that really works.

I have 2 teenage DC and the 3 of us all need to wear glasses all the time- if we take them off or they steam up we risk walking in to things. Especially since it looks like masks will be mandatory in shops etc soon and both DC have hospital appointments (which will mean wearing masks for several hours) coming up I really want to find something that we can wear without fogging up.

So far we have tried various basic home made efforts, cloth masks from etsy and several versions of disposables. All of them seem to slip off the DC ears and steam up almost immediately. As well as being unable to see, we are all constantly fiddling with our masks which obviously goes against all the advice to avoid touching them.

I've seen 'hacks' that involve taping masks in place or putting plasters over the nose area but (just to add to the fun) I have a pretty severe allergy to the adhesive in plasters so daren't event try that idea.

Please please share your ideas or recommendations for good masks to buy for glasses wearers! Thank you

Can you insert a wire so you can pinch the wire to fit the nose?

DH (glasses wearer is using a pipecleaner at the top of the face covering to fit it closely over his nose (we've made our own, so threaded into top seam, but you could just shape it over the mask). Seems to work ok.

The surgical style ones have wire in them and if you pinch at the nose they stay put and your glasses shouldn’t steam. We’ve had a mask law for a while here so I’ve tried a few types but come to conclusion that the fabric ones are horrible to wear for any prolonged period of time, especially on a hot day.

Wash the specs in washing up liquid and hot water, let specs dry on their own. Then they tend not to steam up.

I wear surgical masks all day at work and wear glasses - for me, the only thing that works is a really tight nose pinch with the wire, mask right up to the bottom of the eyelashes and to cross the ear straps which seem to direct the hot air slightly toward the sides rather than up.

A shaving foam clean and dry before putting one on is supposed to help apparently.

Cloth masks without a robust wire and glasses don't really work I don't think!

We bought ours from www.uk-respirators.co.uk

Our whole family have glasses and found these to be really effective. There is an area at the top of the mask that you can pinch and it will shape to the top of your nose, therefore no fogging up of glasses.

The nose wire is the most important thing here, so outward breath doesn't go to your glasses. Improves the purpose of the mask too, since breath plumes up over your head are hardly helping stop the spread.

Spent four hours out today with a mask on, need to get one that doesn't squish my nose quite so much. Or a smaller nose.

Thanks everyone- I will look at masks with nose wires