do humidifiers really help?
For the last couple of weeks, I've been waking up in the middle of the night w/ my throat so dry that it feels like it's sticking to itself. This leads to sleeping with a bottle of water, and I swear it seems like the more I drink, the more dehydrated I feel.
This hasn't really been a problem in the past, but I realized that the dryness coincided with the first time I used the heat this winter.
I picked up a cool air humidifier for my bedroom and it's in there making occasional spitting noises and (hopefully) flinging mist into the air. I can't tell a difference yet... do these things really work? I'm going to just let it run all night and hope that the room will reach critical mass (critical moisture?) at some point. My sinuses and throat would be perfectly happy to not be so damn dry!
This hasn't really been a problem in the past, but I realized that the dryness coincided with the first time I used the heat this winter.
I picked up a cool air humidifier for my bedroom and it's in there making occasional spitting noises and (hopefully) flinging mist into the air. I can't tell a difference yet... do these things really work? I'm going to just let it run all night and hope that the room will reach critical mass (critical moisture?) at some point. My sinuses and throat would be perfectly happy to not be so damn dry!