#humidifier

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I've tried several, from little personal desk humidifiers to large home units (mum gives me a home unit about every five years) and it seems like Slightly Higher Humidity is meant to do something for you health wise but it just doesn't for me. There's no particular change in my skin or breathing or whatever. I can't find anything anywhere, even on the Complaining About Things website (Reddit) about the idea that humidity just kind of isn't that awesome. Any complaints are about mold and bacteria if you don't clean them properly, which leads to equal amounts of talk about "well sure, thoroughly scrubbing a small appliance with vinegar daily is a pain but they're so helpful!"

But they don't actually seem that helpful to me. Is it just me and my dessicated flesh prison? I wouldn't mind if it was just "something I tried which didn't work", but I'm perplexed that everyone else seems to find them miraculous.

I mean, one, no way am I unplugging, emptying, scrubbing, refilling, and resetting this diva-ass machine daily or even less-than-weekly if that, I have too much ADHD. But two, if I did, for that amount of work that thing had better unchap my lips, fix my ADHD, and cook me a meal. It's not even doing one of those things.

Recent-ish Admin BT finds: electronics edition (various thrifts in the Boise, ID area)

K, my husband, and Son have been getting cold after cold the last four or five weeks. K in particular was thinking that a humidifier in her room would help a lot at night, but I found that the filter in our old-but-still-functional humidifier was sort of . . fossilized. I was surprised and almost overjoyed to find that even though my humidifier is probably 20+ years old, filters for that model were still available.

I ordered some. They arrived. This evening I set it up, which took a bit of effort because the darned thing has been sitting in storage and it was dusty-yucky. I washed the pieces up, managed to lose one of them, hunted around the house in increasing frustration for a while, and eventually located the missing piece in a bedroom. Don't. Don't ask.

It is now humming mistily away in her bedroom, and hopefully she won't have a dry throat and nose tonight. A small triumph, but hey. I'll take it.

Chernobyl Humidifier !

 13 cm tall, 15 cm long, and 12 cm wide,

Recently my mom picked up one of those steam inhaler type things, because when my sister was younger she used to have a nebulizer and we'd always thought I probably needed one but asthma was lower on my priority list. After three days of using it in addition to my regular inhaler, my lungs feel clear for the first time in YEARS, and combined with zyrtec I'm no longer having allergic sinus issues from all the dust. Like, I went through three tissue boxes in the first day clearing everything out and I can breathe through my nose again!

I use it twice at night before I go to bed and it's been an absolute lifesaver. I have to say it's been even more helpful than my rollator in terms of quality of life boosts- no more winter nights waking up every half hour wheezing! No more using my emergency inhaler every 5 or 6 hours for three months a year! Highly recommend the vicks version. It's cheap and it is perfect.

That's awesome! It's so awful when your breathing is affected; I'm glad you found something that helps so much!