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

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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?

Normal air is around 40%

Normal air is 21% oxygen.

Was about to say what @Tumbleweed101 said. Doctors prescribe oxygen to end-stage COPD patients only because respiration involves breathing in oxygen, which your body needs and breathing out carbon dioxide, which is toxic. Using oxygen when your blood gases are in a “normal” range can a create a situation where carbon dioxide builds up in the blood to dangerously toxic (even lethal) levels VERY quickly!!! Personally I think you should see a wound care nurse. That is their specialty area.

Oxygen is not flammable but it makes everything around it much more flammable. It is possible for nasal hairs to spontaneously combust in high concentrations for example. For those saying that it doesn’t matter that it isn’t the oxygen burning please just accept that it does matter to some of us.
I’m not sure how common it is to use pure oxygen in hospital directly on the patient, it goes in to the mask or nose thing as enhanced air, I think. DD is in hospital with pneumonia and in resus in A&E she was on 35%O2, not 100% to get up to 95% saturation.

The problem with oxygen, carbon dioxide and COPD relates to a small number of COPD patients and not people with normal respiratory physiology.

Oxygen makes up 21% of room air not 40%.

Nose hair doesn’t spontaneously combust in oxygen .

There is an academic paper mentioning nasal hair combustion but I don’t have it to hand, it’s an interesting example of enhanced surface area changing combustion behaviour. I’m sure it’s not an every day thing (and there’s obviously a possibility that the person using it as an example made it up for effect, but that person isn’t me because I’m an engineer and I don’t have the imagination!)

chemenger but surely you also see that someone coming on and posting “oxygen isn’t flammable” with no elaboration is completely useless and may in fact give the uninformed the impression that oxygen is completely safe around ignition sources?

Yes, there is a technical difference but if someone isn’t going to explain that it just makes them look like a pedantic twat.

Which was probably why chemenger was elaborating on someone else's pedantry.

I'm a PhD chemist and if one of my family needed oxygen I'd be bloody careful with it. Oxygen + something flammable + not very vigorous heat source = trouble.

Heat sources - smouldering cigarette butt, spark from an an electrical appliance of some sort .... probably all sorts of factors I'm unaware of.

There are not enough words to describe your stupidity OP.

Using oxygen when your blood gases are in a “normal” range can a create a situation where carbon dioxide builds up in the blood to dangerously toxic (even lethal) levels VERY quickly

This is true of people with COPD. People in good health will be able to regulate their oxygen & COPD levels and are not at risk of hypercapnia (high CO2 levels), which is what you are describing. The OP has been very foolish, but let's not scare her into thinking she has done something that could cause her long-term harm.

Yes I was wrong about the o2 content of atmosphere- it is 21% rather than 40%- I didn’t check, was just recalling GCSE science (from 20+ years ago).

I was in a supermarket car park with the DC and we were near a woman on a motorbility scooter with nasal cannula oxygen, tank on the back. She got out a cigarette to light, at that point I moved me and the DC.

I'm glad I've given you all a good laugh - and thank you to those who reassured me that I wasn't harming myself, just not actually doing anything useful.

Xxstatic – thank you – really interesting post and helps me understand the whole process

LuckySwoocsh – thank you too for a good laugh! Never tried NOss but know the teens are all into it….

Anyway, regarding the wound healing, (don't laugh now) but I read about chopped up onions (near the patient in the room) can really help with healing wounds. There was a study about it, it was really interesting. It might be worth a shot, and won't do any harm. Good luck anyway.

3luckystars – this is JUST the kind of advice I’m looking for – something I can try which may or may not make any difference, doesn’t have side effects - AND I can even then use the onion in my cooking so nothing wasted! Huge thanks

CustardOmlet – yes indeed – lots of green juice, plenty of veggies, increased protein and gentle exercise are underpinning my recovey I hope. Inspired by you Im now going to work out how much protein I’m actually getting a day.

WTF?! Is this real?!

Here is some more info about the onions and thank you for not laughing! It's worth a shot anyway.

Get well soon x

3luckystars did you notice that paper was published in 1947?

Manuka honey is another healing thing.

Or maggots.

Leeches.

Always leeches.

Maggots, honey and onion?! Sounds like a Heston Blumenthal recipe not a wound care plan!

Yup onions and manuka honey on top of the regular advice of gentle exercise and great diet including plenty of Vitamins C and Zinc!

Happy to give anything a go - and the medics don't know it all, just their "patch"!

Happy to give anything a go

I do psychic surgery for a very reasonable price.

(Disclaimer-psychic surgery has no scientific basis and fools and their money are easily parted).

Leeches

Leeching is great! Always enjoy leeching a patient. Don’t like destroying the leeches afterwards though, poor things.