Humidifier?

Re: Humidifier?

• Oohgurl member

  December 2013

  I did. I dont know if it helped or not but it uses such little water I am keeping it on all winter.
  
  LO is getting over a nasty cold and I found the pedatric Vicks wall plug ins to really really help the congestion.

  

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• coffeeandbooks member

  December 2013

  I have heard some warnings about humidifiers getting mildew and some other gunk,  so just be careful to keep it clean.
  

  

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• TradeMama member

  December 2013

  Hmm I will see if I can find a mildew resistant one.

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• LaxMOM44 member

  December 2013

  I actually notice that she wakes up
  more congested...but we still use it. Just in case it is helping.we got the Vicks cool most and I don't notice it working at all but then I am used to the warm ones. Here's a pic of ours. I wouldn't recommend it but I wouldn't stop you from buying it either. I am looking into a warm one for her nursery and I'll just keep it far away from her crib.

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• john5111 member

  December 2013

  Ive used the crane one since he was born every night. I think it helps. Its a cool mist one I dont run it super high and then every morning I dump the water out and then each weekend I soak and clean it. It seems to help.
  

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• smg2302 member

  December 2013

  We use the Vicks Starry Night Cool Mist Humidifier every night.  She used to be super congested and now she is not.  The filters have to be changed like every other week to keep clean.
  

  
  
  
  
  

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• watuzzigal member

  December 2013

  john5111 said:

  Ive used the crane one since he was born every night. I think it helps. Its a cool mist one I dont run it super high and then every morning I dump the water out and then each weekend I soak and clean it. It seems to help.
  

  This is us, too!
  
  I'm not completely sure it helps, but I don't think it hurts, and the doctor suggested it when she got her first cold.

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• JulieK79 member

  December 2013

  Do humidifiers help with dry skin? Someone told me to try one because T gets eczema type red patches all the time.

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• LilFlea member

  December 2013

  We use it every night in LO's room, it works well since he would wake up all stuffy & couldn't breathe sometimes...the only mildew I've found is on the windows lol but we clean them often ;;)

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• Schell2013 member

  December 2013

  I found it helped. I even put a couple drops of eucalyptus in it.

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• TradeMama member

  December 2013

  Is there a benefit to warm vs cool air?

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• babyo52 member

  December 2013

  We use a humidifier when O is stuffy, it seems to help her. We bought a warm mist one because I thought that it would make more sense in the winter to have warm water in the air opposed to cool water, but after talking to my pedi he said the cool mist humidifier is better. But he didn't explain the difference.
  
  This is what I found on the mayo clinic website "
  

  For their safety, always use cool-mist humidifiers for children. Hot water or steam from a warm-mist humidifier or steam vaporizer can burn a child if he or she gets too close. In the event of a spill, hot water might also burn.

  Humidifiers add moisture to the air, which helps ease coughing and congestion due to a cold. Warm-mist and cool-mist humidifiers are equally effective in humidifying the air. Also, by the time the water vapor reaches your child's lower airways, it's the same temperature regardless of whether it started out warm or cool."

  
  

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