tastyfood
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I have been learning how to use a capnometer for a while, but still have doubts about how to use it at home without attachments.
I own the Massimo Emma .
At first, I started using it by breathing through the top of the airway adapter, with my mouth. I would approach the measurement as a "best effort" type test, by exhaling as much as possible after doing bag breathing or holding my breath or doing Buteyko-style breathing.
I then realized that this is not very efficient because by exhaling a lot of air through the mouth, I lose a lot of CO2, which invalidates future measurements.
After that, I remembered that Peat mentioned to me via email that he had used a similar device that was so sensitive that it would pick up the CO2 from simply putting it under the nose.
I started putting the capnometer under my nose, simply blowing air through my nostril while doing regular breathing. I've been recording really crazy values by doing this. Easily, without much efforts, in the 50s of mmHG. During asthmatic episodes, I've been recording 72 mmHG.
My question: is it really viable to use the capnometer without any breathing attachments?
Another user had posted a picture like this:
I am not using any attachment, but simply breathing into the tube. Am I doing this wrong? Is the attachment strictly necessary not to waste any air?
How am I recording such high values from simply breathing through my nose? Does it matter if one breaths through the top or the bottom of the airway adapter?
Tagging two users who have discussed capnometers in the past:
@Blossom
@yerrag
Thank you!
I own the Massimo Emma .
At first, I started using it by breathing through the top of the airway adapter, with my mouth. I would approach the measurement as a "best effort" type test, by exhaling as much as possible after doing bag breathing or holding my breath or doing Buteyko-style breathing.
I then realized that this is not very efficient because by exhaling a lot of air through the mouth, I lose a lot of CO2, which invalidates future measurements.
After that, I remembered that Peat mentioned to me via email that he had used a similar device that was so sensitive that it would pick up the CO2 from simply putting it under the nose.
I started putting the capnometer under my nose, simply blowing air through my nostril while doing regular breathing. I've been recording really crazy values by doing this. Easily, without much efforts, in the 50s of mmHG. During asthmatic episodes, I've been recording 72 mmHG.
My question: is it really viable to use the capnometer without any breathing attachments?
Another user had posted a picture like this:
I am not using any attachment, but simply breathing into the tube. Am I doing this wrong? Is the attachment strictly necessary not to waste any air?
How am I recording such high values from simply breathing through my nose? Does it matter if one breaths through the top or the bottom of the airway adapter?
Tagging two users who have discussed capnometers in the past:
@Blossom
@yerrag
Thank you!
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