Tips for Home Oxygen Therapy
Posted by admin - 14/04/09 at 04:04 pm- Make sure the oxygen flow rate is set as prescribed by your doctor. (Neither above nor below).
- Keep an emergency oxygen supply somewhere handy. Make sure it is filled.
- Make sure the tubing has no kinks and the flow is working smoothly.
- Another frequent check area is the humidifier bottle.
- Oxygen flow tends to produce dryness to the inside of your nose. To reduce this you can apply a water soluble lubricant.
- Have your technician and supplier’s telephone numbers easy to find (on the fridge perhaps).
Each day more and more people are being prescribed with oxygen therapy due to respiratory and lung problems. We, the baby boomer generation, are more lightly to need oxygen therapy in the shorter term. When younger, in the sixties and seventies, there was much less awareness of the potential risks involved with smoking and a lot of us did smoking strange stuff, including tobacco. If you have smoked you should see your doctor and have a check up.
The good news is that oxygen supply equipment, be it oxygen tanks or oxygen concentrators, have developed in the last few years and are now much more user friendly.
