MupstateNY
Distinguished member
- Joined
- Aug 15, 2022
- Messages
- 424
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 11/2022
- Country
- US
- State
- NY
Good info here.
I wanted to share some supplemental ways of humidifying:
I like to aim for 40% relative humidity, based on what my children's allergist told me years ago. I will ask the ALS Center if I can go up to 50%.
I nursed my children for a long time, so I couldn't use cough suppressant for years. So I inhaled chamomile tea. Can I still do that now?
This thread gave me good questions to ask the pulmonologist on Monday.
Bestfriends, I found my own mucus crisis last night quite stressful, but what you guys went through was so much worse.
Fortunately (I never thought I would say that) I am allergic to dairy AND chocolate. And I've never liked spicy foods.
I wanted to share some supplemental ways of humidifying:
- run a shower of hot water, letting it collect in the tub
- boil a pot of water
- I bought a humidifier from Lowes that is also an air purifier, for about $500 a few years ago
- I find it helpful to have a hygrometer (measures relative humidity). I have one from Lowes (I think it was less than $20) that gives me the temp and humidity both inside and out (you have to hang a sensor outside, out of direct sun -- I gave mine a little hat which was an upside-down plastic take-out soup container with a hole poked in the middle -- this allowed me to hang it in a tree)
I like to aim for 40% relative humidity, based on what my children's allergist told me years ago. I will ask the ALS Center if I can go up to 50%.
I nursed my children for a long time, so I couldn't use cough suppressant for years. So I inhaled chamomile tea. Can I still do that now?
This thread gave me good questions to ask the pulmonologist on Monday.
Bestfriends, I found my own mucus crisis last night quite stressful, but what you guys went through was so much worse.
Fortunately (I never thought I would say that) I am allergic to dairy AND chocolate. And I've never liked spicy foods.