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- From: acheng@ncsa.uiuc.edu (Albert Cheng)
- Subject: Re: Humidifiers (Q)
- References: <rbkatz-070193124922@128.96.93.74>
- Message-ID: <C0I4z9.C6u@news.cso.uiuc.edu>
- Originator: acheng@shalom.ncsa.uiuc.edu
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- Organization: Nat'l Ctr for Supercomp App (NCSA) @ University of Illinois
- Date: Thu, 7 Jan 1993 20:59:31 GMT
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- In article <rbkatz-070193124922@128.96.93.74>, rbkatz@cc.bellcore.com (Bob Katz) writes:
- >With all the dry winter air, I'm in the market for a small humidifier.
- >I've heard that there are a few kinds: evaporative, steam/vaporizer
- >(including warm mist), and cold mist. I'd like to get one that doesn't
- >have a "white dust" problem, that wouldn't have a bacteria problem, and
- >that wouldn't consume excessive amounts of electricity. Can anyone
- >recommend a model? (The Berkeley wellness newsletter last January
- >mentioned that the "new" evaporative wicking models sounded promising, but
- >they hadn't been tested yet.)
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- I just talked to my doctor's nurse about a humidifier for my 2 years
- old girl's room. She recommends cool mist type for safety sake. I
- should change the water daily. The bacteria start to culmulate if I
- leave the water unchanged for days.
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