What Symptoms Will Appear When Wearing a Home Non-invasive Ventilator for the First Time and How to

1. Intolerance: you can take several deep breaths. After a period of self-adjustment, the user will gradually adapt to this new feeling.

2. Oropharyngeal dryness: patients may suffer from oropharyngeal dryness when using a household noninvasive ventilator. Adjust the mask to reduce air leakage, drink more water (2500 3000 ml / D), and use a heating humidifier to effectively eliminate the above discomfort.

3. Facial crush: check whether the headband is too tight. If so, loosen the headband appropriately, but do not loosen it to air leakage. It can also be cushioned with gauze. It is also necessary to wash your face before use, and regularly clean the mask and pipeline.

4. Flatulence and discomfort of gastrointestinal tract: when wearing a household non-invasive ventilator for the first time, opening the mouth for breathing or swallowing will make the gas enter the esophagus. Generally, the patient will reduce or disappear in about a week. Try to breathe through the nose, speak less, and use drugs to promote gastric motility when necessary.

5. Mouth leakage: if a nasal mask is used, try to keep the mouth closed suslfkflg. Oral air leakage will reduce the curative effect. If the problem of air leakage in the mouth cannot be solved, you can use an oronasal mask or a jaw band.

6. Expectoration disorder: when the patient has expectoration disorder, the family members should turn over and pat the patient's back regularly, encourage more drinking water, guide the patient to cough and expectorate effectively, and carry out atomization inhalation when necessary. Conditional families can give expectoration.

7. Get up: if you need to get up at night, please remove the lower cover and turn off the home non-invasive ventilator. When you continue to sleep, please put on the mask again and turn on the ventilator.

This epidemic has made more people know about respirators. Household non-invasive respirators can effectively treat sleep apnea symptoms, COPD and other related diseases, which are also recognized by the majority of users. However, the home ventilator is a medical device after all. In normal use, if it is not used properly, it may cause discomfort to patients. Therefore, the use of home noninvasive ventilator must be used under the guidance of doctors or professionals.