Room humidifier question

I have not used a room humidifier yet my room is moist and cool - I have adjusted the humidification on my airsense 11 but to no avail. Has anyone with dry nasal passages and breathing issues through the nose found relief with a room humidifier? Does it also help with dry mouth symptoms?

Have you turned on the heat at all? With what results (and what area do you iive in)?

sleepingbetter0209 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 3:24 pm

Does it also help with dry mouth symptoms?

Probably not. It all depends on what is causing the dry mouth.

sleepingbetter0209 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 3:24 pm

Has anyone with dry nasal passages and breathing issues through the nose found relief with a room humidifier?

What humidity setting have you been using?

What is your ambient room humidity?

I live in Southeast. Not a particular dry climate- I have humidity level set at 5 or 6 usually on Airsense 11.

sleepingbetter0209 wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 04, 2025 7:19 pm

I live in Southeast. Not a particular dry climate- . . .

In order to answer Pugsy's question on your room humidity, you may need to buy an inexpensive humidity guage to make sure the relative humidity in your room does not drop below 35 for days at a time. This can happen indoors from certain forms of heating or cooling, even if your overall outdoor climate averages are higher than that. In my experience, keeping indoor humidity higher than 30 by using a humidifier in drier months helps with dry skin and dry throat during waking hours. I also use dehumidifiers in wet months to keep relative humidity below 50, for allergy-prevention reasons--dust mites apparently hate me.

Also, drinking enough liquids takes effort on my part. Unless something else is messing with it, you can generally judge that sort of thing by whether your urine is relatively clear. Sorry to be gross about it, but staying hydrated is absolutely necessary for the human body to function well for many reasons, and it is not something most civilians and nonathletes generally receive training to keep an eye on and is not something thirst alone is all that helpful with.

But morning dry mouth directly connected with PAP use is another matter that involves machine settings, mask types, mouth leaks (especially with nasal masks), and other treatment-related factors. New users often have some slight upper airway dryness at first, even when settings are optimal, until the body gets used to PAP. But anything beyond that can usually benefit from some directed problem-solving skills.

May you soon figure out what works best for you!

And I have observed that fully answering all Pugsy's questions pays off big time. Just sayin'.

Let me explain why I said "probably not" when asked my opinion as to whether adding a stand alone room humidifier to the mix and it's potential effect on dry mouth and/or dry nasal mucosa issues.

First you have to understand just how these cpap machines work when we use the humidifier setting to add moisture to our cpap provided air.
CPAP machines humidity settings are what the machine will try to maintain or deliver based on the ambient humidity that is already in the air you are breathing.
Let's use the ResMed humidity setting of 5 as an example....I don't know exactly how much humidity the setting of 5 is supposed to deliver but it's going to be somewhere around 85 % (let's assume it is 85%) but it won't ever add more than that 85% humidity to the air no matter what the ambient humidity might be.

So if you use a stand alone room humidifier to add moisture to your bedroom air all it can do is affect the amount of water consumed while the machine is trying to maintain that 85% humidity. It can't change the humidity that the machine has been set to maintain. It simply won't/can't generate more than 85% humidity no matter how moist the ambient air might be.
It won't give you more moisture than the humidity setting of so and so is designed to give..

If you think that more moisture will help your dry mouth the machine can't deliver it just because you have a stand alone humidifier. Instead you would be better off to simply try a higher humidity setting and see if it helps or not.
A lot is going to depend on why you are having a dry mouth.....like what is causing the dry mouth.
Is it mouth breathing or medication side effect or maybe some other health condition or hydration issue?????