<h1>Humidifiers and COPD: Which One Is Best?</h1>

When it comes to COPD, just about anything you can do to reduce bronchial inflammation, improve breathing, and generally increase comfort for the person affected is a good thing. Those with COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) routinely have a hard time breathing, deal with frequent bronchial infections, lack of energy, lack of oxygen, and a whole list of other unpleasant symptoms. And for the sake of clarity, COPD is a group of lung or breathing difficulties that include emphysema and chronic bronchitis. 

 

Often, air that is too dry in a home or room can make COPD symptoms worse because that dry air can dry out those bronchial tissues, leaving them even more irritated and swollen, which blocks airflow even more. Logically, many people with COPD or their loved ones seek out a portable humidifier to help humidify the air and soothe those irritated tissues and help make breathing easier. Choosing the right humidifier, however, can be difficult, since there are so many to choose from, those with filters or filterless, small personal units to large room units, ultrasonic humidifiers, evaporative units and more.

 

Choosing a good electric room humidifier  for COPD or any other particular condition, you have to look at the nature of the problem or illness. With COPD, you often have chronic bronchitis or bronchial infections, so you definitely want clean, bacteria and mold-free moisture so you’re not adding to the problem. That requires that the humidifier either have a good silver ion system or other antibacterial / anti-mold capability. You also want a unit that is quiet, since whatever sleep someone with COPD does get isn’t interrupted by the noise of a humidifier.

 

Also, if you choose a filtered humidifier, that’s usually to remove minerals (so you don’t have mineral spots left on furniture), chlorine or other pollutants from the water, which is important—just make sure the filter lasts longer than a month or so and it’s easy to change. And, a larger capacity humidifier is better, too. Getting a humidifier that has too small of a room capacity (square feet) just means you or the person with COPD will have to refill it too often—larger capacity means less refills, less work, etc.

 

For these reasons, either a warm mist ultrasonic room humidifier with silver ion and mineral filters or hot steam humidifier (no filters) is often recommended for those with COPD, since both are quiet room humidifiers and very effective. Warm mist ultrasonic humidifiers with silver ion and mineral filters (such as Stadler Form’s WILLIAM are usually quiet, release only clean bacteria and mold free moisture, and often come in larger capacity units. Hot steam humidifiers are actually chosen more often because of the super-low maintenance factor—no filters to change.

 

And the hot steam humidifiers, like Stadler Form’ FRED can release essential oils along with the water, which are both antibacterial and healing. FRED doesn’t require filters and always quietly releases clean moisture since it boils the water, killing bacteria and leaving behind any impurities as the water is converted to steam. In any case, warm mist is usually best as it humidifies a room and maintains that humidity better–and doesn’t make the room unnecessarily ‘chilly’ as some cool mist units can do. We also highly recommend that for anyone that has COPD, to make sure to have a quality portable room air purifier to keep any airborne bacteria, dust or mold spores from making things worse.

 

Air Purifiers and Cleaners.com is your best online source for the best rated air humidifiers, from small personal humidifiers to large room capacity humidifiers, to ultrasonic cool mist, hot steam, and evaporative units that are perfect for reducing allergies, asthma, or COPD in any home or room. 

And since we’re an online store with low overhead, we gladly pass those savings on to you with cheap discount prices and free shipping , every day! If you have any questions about which portable or personal home humidifier is best for COPD, allergies or any other dry air situation, just give our experts a call at 1-800-701-2513 and they’ll be happy to assist you!

 

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