On Oxygen and Adjusting to Your New Condition
First finding out that you are going to need oxygen therapy for 24 hours 7 days a week is a life changing experience.
We have all seen people with hoses coming out of there noses.
Those are patients on oxygen therapy and they are using a medical device called an oxygen concentrator or it could be an oxygen canister.
It is great to see these medical oxygen patients out and about.
About 6 years ago it was only possible to go out for a few hours at a time before your oxygen bottle ran out of oxygen.
Today we have portable oxygen concentrators that allow you to stay out for as long as you want.
They are powered in three different ways, battery, wall charger, and in your cigarette lighter.
Depending on your liter flow you can be out and about on your battery life for up to 8 hours at a time or even longer if you carry extra charged batteries with you.
Being diagnosed with C.
O.
P.
D.
or many of the other lung diseases that may cause the use of medical oxygen is hard but your life is far from over.
People are living there life and some even better lives than most coach potatoes.
Oxygen patients are traveling the country by plane,train, and automobile with FAA approved portable oxygen machines.
After the shock wears off, you will be out there doing the things you did everyday.
You will still play golf, go out on the boat, have picnics with the family.
As time goes on and technology gets better our oxygen concentrators will become more portable and easier to travel with.
Today the lightest portable is about 41/2 pounds.
Battery life on the travel oxygen machines will continue to improve and give all of us more freedom at longer period of times.
Remember being put on oxygen is not the end of the world, its just a new beginning.
It is a good idea to become part of a group, with people that also need portable oxygen concentrators to help them through there everyday activities.
Being and staying active is a key to good health.
If you Google groups in your area with your condition as a keyword you will find plenty of choices.
We have all seen people with hoses coming out of there noses.
Those are patients on oxygen therapy and they are using a medical device called an oxygen concentrator or it could be an oxygen canister.
It is great to see these medical oxygen patients out and about.
About 6 years ago it was only possible to go out for a few hours at a time before your oxygen bottle ran out of oxygen.
Today we have portable oxygen concentrators that allow you to stay out for as long as you want.
They are powered in three different ways, battery, wall charger, and in your cigarette lighter.
Depending on your liter flow you can be out and about on your battery life for up to 8 hours at a time or even longer if you carry extra charged batteries with you.
Being diagnosed with C.
O.
P.
D.
or many of the other lung diseases that may cause the use of medical oxygen is hard but your life is far from over.
People are living there life and some even better lives than most coach potatoes.
Oxygen patients are traveling the country by plane,train, and automobile with FAA approved portable oxygen machines.
After the shock wears off, you will be out there doing the things you did everyday.
You will still play golf, go out on the boat, have picnics with the family.
As time goes on and technology gets better our oxygen concentrators will become more portable and easier to travel with.
Today the lightest portable is about 41/2 pounds.
Battery life on the travel oxygen machines will continue to improve and give all of us more freedom at longer period of times.
Remember being put on oxygen is not the end of the world, its just a new beginning.
It is a good idea to become part of a group, with people that also need portable oxygen concentrators to help them through there everyday activities.
Being and staying active is a key to good health.
If you Google groups in your area with your condition as a keyword you will find plenty of choices.
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