Wonderful, comfortable, reliable alternative to cannula
These masks are comfortable, durable, cute, and provide consistent flow my daughter’s doctors and I appreciate. The added humidification that occurs helps keep her nose from drying out, especially when she’s requiring higher flow rates -we also use a humidifier bottle.<br /><br />When she is an especially active sleeper it can get loose if not taped. We use kind tape to tape it on when she’s ill or already has low saturations - just to save us all being woken regularly by pulse ox alarms.<br /><br />I’m so glad I found these a few years ago, for my (then 2yo) daughter. She has been using them daily for years. She has NEHI & for nearly 4yrs has been on oxygen anytime she sleeps, during illnesses, & times of poor air quality. We (inpatient nurses, respiratory therapists, physicians and I) struggled to get her to put or keep on the cannula. Even if she’d comply awake, she was constantly ripping off the cannula in her sleep. The only solution were these padded arm braces that kept her from being able to reach her face. She despised the “wind in ‘her’ nose”. We tried so many variations and setups, but either she wouldn’t keep them on, they wouldn’t stay on, or the blow-by options couldn’t consistently/reliably keep her SATs up. There wasn’t a cannula or mask we could find that she’d keep on, until these.<br /><br />I am so late in reviewing them. Recently, we were traveling & she decided to chew on the tubing while we were driving through a mountain pass. I had to switch her back to a cannula for a few days until I could get more of these. We were all ready to hug the delivery man when they arrived. These have made a world of positive difference in her (our) live(s). They’ve literally saved my girl.
Rating: 5 stars