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Re: Breeze - pillows or dream seal?

Posted by BostonBoy on June 26, 2002 at 09:47:57:

In Reply to: Breeze - pillows or dream seal? posted by Sandy on June 26, 2002 at 07:23:38:

The DreamSeal mask gets little comment because it gets only rare praise. It just doesn't win 'best of breed' mask medals here.
The Breeze headgear fitted with nasal pillows is often mentioned as coping particularly well with higher pressures. You can see it pictured at http://www.mallinckrodt.com/respiratory/productcatalog/product.asp?id=208

The five features that I particularly like are the silent exhaust (although its angle is not adjustable); its very high tolerance for side sleeping and sleepers' movement; the very small skin contact area; the ability to don and remove it single-handedly, and the fact that if a blowout leak occurs it is nowhere near the eyes!

Some folks never seem to get the hang of adjusting it. Others take to it like a duck to soup. The headgear is adjustable in 3 planes, and because the planes are not at 90deg to each other, the adjustments can be finessed exceptionally well - in other words, there is usually more than one way to achieve comfortable fit, by making very small dimensional changes. When done right the pressure on the head is nominal, and the nasal pillows just about float on the nares.
I'm a back-and-sides guy, and I move a lot during sleep. The rig minimizes torsional contact with the bed pillow, which is what tends to dislodge masks. But I cannot speak for performance when the user has big hair or wants to sleep face-downward.


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