Full Face Mask - cold air blowing on face

[danjeharry]

Hey all,

My first post. I usually use a nasal mask (Respironics Easy Life), but I have a bunch of environmental allergies so often get nasal congestion (taking antihistamines/nasal steroid sprays but doesn't always works). So I sometimes switch to a full face mask. I'm using the Respironics Comfortgel Full Face right now and I've tried the resmed quattro before as well. With all the full face masks I've tried, I always get the feeling of cold air being blown directly onto my face, esp during inhalation, which I don't get with the nasal masks. Has anyone else experienced this before? Are there any masks/workarounds that prevent this from happening? Not sure why it happens in full face masks vs nasal.

Thanks

[chunkyfrog]

It seems to go with the territory.
Once I got used to it, I hardly noticed it.
In winter, I am particularly grateful for my heated hose.

[2 B Sleeping Soundly]

I do not use a full face mask so I don't have any suggestions to help with cold air blowing on your face, but I do have the same nasal mask (Respironics Easy Life) and find that if I use some sort of aromatherapy scent, like Pur-sleep, on nights that allergies and nasal congestion are a problem, it helps me immensely. Give something like this a try for those nights that you can almost make the nasal mask work, but would normally need to give up and use the full face. I find that their scent called 'Clear' works very well for me and helps my nasal passages open enough to then let the XPAP machine air do what it does best...

John

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