Maintaining Good Eye Health While Using Oxygen Therapy

Maintaining Good Eye Health While Using Oxygen Therapy

There are many threats to your eye health, and your eyes are extremely important in how you can function and care for yourself. These threats can even be caused by the things meant to help you, or help you see better. Eye health is just as important as lung health, and eye comfort and ease of use is just as important as the health of your eyes. Here are a few ways to both look after the health of your eyes, as well as receive the oxygen therapy you need, with the bonus of more comfort and convenience.

Glasses are often preferred over contact lenses, especially if you have sensitive eyes or need a very strong prescription. If you are using an oxygen concentrator with the use of a nasal cannula, you be tempted to use contact lenses, just to keep from having a bunch of things crowded on your face.

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Before Your Next Adventure: Key Points for Seniors to Remember

Before Your Next Adventure: Key Points for Seniors to Remember

Chances are, you’ve been on quite a few adventures and had other memorable experiences you cherish to this day. Just because you’re older now doesn’t mean your traveling days are over. There are still many different ways you can have adventures and create new memories that are worth cherishing. Before you start packing your bags, there are several points to remember in order to keep your traveling experiences enjoyable and safe at the same time.

Where Do You Want to Go?

Of course, your to-do list when it comes to planning starts with your destination. While you might not be able to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania or go base jumping off Angel Falls in Venezuela, you can still find plenty of great adventures.

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Staying Safe and Healthy in Frigid Cold Weather

Staying Safe and Healthy in Frigid Cold Weather

The middle of winter can be just as dangerous as the middle of summer, with the extremes in temperature that can occur during these times of year. Dangerous cold weather can be rough for anyone of any age and for those who are young and healthy, but can be even more so for the elderly, and for those who have chronic diseases. It’s important to know what to do when the frigid weather moves in and to have a plan.

Not only can you start to become ill during very cold weather, but there is also a danger of slipping on ice if you go outside, or if the power goes out due to wind or ice, you will be in real danger of hypothermia.

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SeQual Equinox Offers More Freedom to Continuous Flow Oxygen Patients

SeQual Equinox

You will soon be able to take advantage of these technological advances with one of the newest continuous flow oxygen concentrator – the Sequal Equinox!

This comes from the makers of our customer favorites in the smallest portable models in the industry – AirSep, as well as the maker of one of the best continuous flow concentrators, Sequal (makers of the popular Eclipse series). They combined the best of both worlds in the Sequal Equinox. It weighs just 14 lbs (with the battery) and features continuous flow settings up to 3 LPM (liters per minute), as well as pulse dose settings as high as 6.

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