Clicky Poll: Humidifiers

asilsjf

What do you think?

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schoolsoutbride

I use to only use them when sick, but since my sinus surgery, I NEED it during the winter.

goldenjes

We are a house divided.

I love them, and use them when someone is sick - especially a younger someone.  I figure if they're in continual use it's probably safer than if the water sits for a few days at a time.

DH thinks they are riddled with germs...although he had a big discussion once with me about Legionnaires Disease when we lived in our old house, and that freaked me out.

carrierrie

We used them a lot when H was a baby and continually sick.  Now, I think they're pretty much yuck unless absolutely necessary.  I clean it everyday when I use it, though.

FutureMECC

We run one in DD's room constantly.  She has terrible eczema so she needs all the help she can get!

ondrea

what do you use to clean/disinfect them?

MTJunebride

I stopped using one the first time I had to de-scale it from all the hard water build up.  Yuck.  We do have a whole house humidifier in our new house that we have on low.

amwadas

ondrea:

what do you use to clean/disinfect them?

I've read that if you run vinegar through it for a half hour then rinse it all out and let air dry that will clean it.

WonderRed

I don't have one because I don't feel like I need one.  I had one when N was a baby and never even used it once.  

PrncesWife

When we first moved here we used it every single winter.  But now that we've lived here awhile I don't feel like I need it anymore, so we haven't used it for at least the last 2 winters.

We just run DD's when she is sick.