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Do not do this. Was CTO of Healthcare company that focuses on heart failure. In the course of my work I learned that if you're in the hospital, they only give y

Do not do this. Was CTO of Healthcare company that focuses on heart failure. In the course of my work I learned that if you're in the hospital, they only give you just enough to keep your SpO2 in the desired range. If they give you too much oxygen, you can get oxygen toxicity. Your body will also get used to trying less hard for air, so when you go off your SpO2 drops dramatically. You have to slowly titrate off. This isn't a thing you want to fuck with.

j45 3y ago
Very well written and explained, thank you. Cleaning and recirculating your environments air can achieve a big improvement in its own
nathan-wailes 3y ago
Thank you for the warning. What do you think about CO2 scrubbers?
- viggity 3y ago
  seems like a much more reasonable approach. In fact, the CDC (iirc) just released a warning about long term, habitual use of an N95 as your CO2 levels rise significantly. In fact, any time that a person is at risk of death from limited air availability (submarines, space flight, etc), you won't run out of oxygen before the CO2 build up kills you. Don't get me wrong, if you go to the mall or whatever to get oxygen treatment, I'm sure you'll be fine. It's not super concentrated and you're only on it for an hour. Different beast than an oxygen concentrator long term. With the CO2 scrubber, you might be fighting a bit of a losing battle with it if you have a whole house air exchanger, but that seems like a cheaper/easier solution to keeping CO2 in sync with ambient environment. A whole house air exchanger is also a fantastic way to mitigate radon (mostly a midwest issue, but is a problem in central eastern states and appalachia) and your radon is borderline between safe and unsafe. I have such an air exchanger, a radon monitor, and no radon mitigation. When the air is particularly cold, sometimes I'll turn off my air exchanger and my radon levels go from 3pCi/L to 4.0-4.5 (4 is usually when they recommend you get mitigation system. If it is borderline like that you can get a passive system that exposes your sump well to ambient environment. And at higher levels you should get an active one where a fan will draw vacuum on your sump 24/7)
  - nathan-wailes 3y ago
    thank you for the advice!

j45 3y ago

Very well written and explained, thank you. Cleaning and recirculating your environments air can achieve a big improvement in its own

nathan-wailes 3y ago

Thank you for the warning. What do you think about CO2 scrubbers?

viggity 3y ago
seems like a much more reasonable approach. In fact, the CDC (iirc) just released a warning about long term, habitual use of an N95 as your CO2 levels rise significantly. In fact, any time that a person is at risk of death from limited air availability (submarines, space flight, etc), you won't run out of oxygen before the CO2 build up kills you. Don't get me wrong, if you go to the mall or whatever to get oxygen treatment, I'm sure you'll be fine. It's not super concentrated and you're only on it for an hour. Different beast than an oxygen concentrator long term. With the CO2 scrubber, you might be fighting a bit of a losing battle with it if you have a whole house air exchanger, but that seems like a cheaper/easier solution to keeping CO2 in sync with ambient environment. A whole house air exchanger is also a fantastic way to mitigate radon (mostly a midwest issue, but is a problem in central eastern states and appalachia) and your radon is borderline between safe and unsafe. I have such an air exchanger, a radon monitor, and no radon mitigation. When the air is particularly cold, sometimes I'll turn off my air exchanger and my radon levels go from 3pCi/L to 4.0-4.5 (4 is usually when they recommend you get mitigation system. If it is borderline like that you can get a passive system that exposes your sump well to ambient environment. And at higher levels you should get an active one where a fan will draw vacuum on your sump 24/7)
- nathan-wailes 3y ago
  thank you for the advice!