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Re: The Sky is Falling!!!

Posted by ChuckS on January 04, 2002 at 09:41:29:

In Reply to: Re: The Sky is Falling!!! posted by Lawrence on January 03, 2002 at 19:16:12:

You could put a heating pad under your humidifier and maybe a blanket over it as a temporary measure. You could then see if that would help. If it helps, you'd know that a regular heated humidifier would help. You could do this until you get the regular one, or maybe instead of a regular one. However, if you ever go to the hospital, they may not allow the heatimg pad arrangement.

As others have suggested, you could put hot water in to start with. If your room humidity is low, or even moderate, you should get a room or home humidifier. I think anybody living in Canada should have a house/room humidifier in the winter anyway. (I'm from Minnesota and I also think every Minnesotan also should) You could also put wetness, like wet washcloths, around the air intake to your CPAP.

You should have the humidifier lower than you and the CPAP to keep water from splashing to either. I think it would be good to have the CPAP as high off the floor and as far away from other objects as possible to minimize the amount of dust, etc, it picks up. Perhaps you could make a wooden stand with the CPAP on top and the humidifier on the bottom. Allow extra room in case you ever get a different model of either.

An AutoPAP could help too, since it would run lower than max pressure most of the time. It would run at the max (which may be your present pressure) only when needed.

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