To ask if anyone knows about using an oxygen canister at home - bought off internet and love to know how people use and what results you get

[loveyouradvice]

Hi - this is a new world for me.

I've just had an operation and am not healing as fast as they would hope - wound site still inflamed.

And I gather oxygen in the blood helps! So I bough a canister off the internet from a reputable company and have been breathing in 10 breathes twice a day.

Does anyone on here use oxygen canisters for anything? I gather people use for sport? feeling tired? other stuff?

Three questions:

1. How do you use it
2. What sort of results do you get
3. And have you heard of people using it to help them heal?

A fool and his money are soon parted

I'm sure 20 gulps of oxygen a day will have miraculous healing powers OP

Ds is on oxygen. You don't need the fire bregade round because the cannisters aren't pressurised. You just have a nurse round to tell you how to store them. The electricity company only need to know if you use a consentrator machine so they can tell you about planned power cuts.

You do however need to be checked by a Dr to see how much oxygen your body can take. Too much and your lungs struggle to get all the co2 out and you get poisoned.

One of many on Amazon www.amazon.co.uk/ClearO2-110L-Breathing-Oxygen-Valve/dp/B07NDH8G9J/ref=asc_df_B07NDH8G9J/?hvlocphy=1002316&linkCode=df0&hvptwo&psc=1&hvnetw=g&hvadid=310734735537&hvpone&hvlocint&hvpos=1o1&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl&hvqmt&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&hvtargid=pla-742428102857&hvrand=12662296083991429095

And it says this “Ingredients: :
Oxygen
Legal Disclaimer :
This product is not intended to treat, prevent, diagnose or cure any disease or medical condition.”

So..,,,

It's a thing.
Just Googled it.

No mention of health and safety.
But talk about making your skin healthy

Oxygen cylinders are most certainly pressurised!

20 breaths a day is going to do fuck all for wound healing though.

Only evidence I know of is for hyperbaric oxygen therapy - delivered in a hyperbaric chamber just like the ones they use to treat decompression sickness “the bends”. You can not replicate this effect at home.

Maybe consult someone with an actual health related qualification. Dr Google can be misleading.

My friend had pressurised gas bottles of O2 as her baby was born very prematurely.
The Fire Brigade did have to be informed of it being in her flat, and she had to tell her insurance.

Terrible idea! Don't do it!
To improve healing - eat well, take some exercise (at a level you can manage), don't drink, don't smoke!
Look after yourself. Keep the wound clean and dry.

Aah I misread it as 10 minutes, not 10 breaths!

Yeah that’s going to do fuck all for wound healing, OP - all you’ve done is piss money up the wall and bring a flammable canister into the house.

Nurse here.

Um...really??

Not sure where to start with this.

You know your blood carries oxygen round the body anyway right? Maybe see a health professional rather than trying to find your own random cures (that won’t help). Smoking delays wound healing btw. And FFS don’t mix that with oxygen. You’ll go bang.

Do you smoke? If you do, that might be why your wound isn’t healing

And if you smoke and breathe your oxygen at the save time, your wound definitely won't heal.....ever

its active ingredient is fresh air

I have lots of canisters of fresh air for sale. Very reasonable rates. PM me.

Also a bridge and some lovely Nigerian gold

Of course the cannisters are pressurised. If they weren't they'd have about 2 breaths in them if that, and be even more of a waste of time then they are already.

Just because something is for sale, doesn't mean that it's a good idea. These products will be somewhere between a placebo and potentially dangerous both to directly to the individual breathing them in and to the household in general as potential explosion risk/fire accelerant.

Oxygen cylinders are most certainly pressurised!

Our oxygen company told us they're not. The oxygen is flammable but the cannisters is not pressurised.

This is my new favourite thread.

Well they lied or were mistaken. Look at the cannister in the link above. It says 110 litres of oxygen in a small bottle of a volume of around one 1 litre.

The only way to reduce the volume from 110 litres to 1 litre is by increasing the pressure. Basic physics, Boyle's law, pressure of a gas is inversely proportional to the volume.

If anyone is in any doubt as to bow potentially dangerous keeping pressurised oxygen at home when you don't understand the risks, look at the awful tragedy in the US last week where 30+ divers died in a fire on a boat - one of the reasons why the fire was so intense was that the boat would have been carrying oxygen cylinders because this is used by divers when treating decompression sickness.

Omg it could be anything in the cannister. Hope it hasn't harmed the OP as they haven't been back

The cylinders are definitely pressurised...think about it...if there are more litres of oxygen in the cylinder than you could get litres of water (for example) in it then it must be under pressure.

@Teddypicker1 all oxygen cylinders are compressed (pressurised) gas. You may have something different like a portable concentrator or liquid oxygen?

Our oxygen company told us they're not. The oxygen is flammable but the cannisters is not pressurised

If you have a 10 litre cylinder, that's not a lot of oxygen. The average human breathes 7 - 8 litres per minute (according to Google).

So you've got about 1 - 2 minutes of air. If it's not pressurised.

I must have misunderstood then. I thought they said they're not pressurised so they don't explode. I only really use the machine anyway.

This can't be real. if it is it's the most bizarre thing I've read for ages.

Op hasn’t come back because she exploded.

@loveyouradvice you’re a firework... boom, boom, boom

Hi ... I'm still here.... Glad I've made you all laugh... so yes it is one of these....

Degree of histrionics here. Small portable lightweight canisters are readily available all over now - for sports, altitude, health, 'recreation'. I'm guessing that is what you are using OP, rather than medical grade compressed tanks.

And I suspect the result will be NO result.

I'm not a smoker and am talking to an MS Centre about having Oxygen therapy next week (appropriately and professionally reviewed) and just thought giving myself a boost early might help!

And I'll talk to my pharmacist tomorrow - they're deeply knowledgeable and will probably - as you've all suggested - just laugh.

I think the OP hasn’t come back because she’s had 3 pages of people telling her she’s a twat