[pmoriarty]

Be really careful with humidifiers.

I cranked mine up too much and it caused a mold issue in my home, and mold in my home caused me health issues.

[exhilaration]

The rule of thumb is that if your humidifier is causing condensation on your windows, then you have condensation inside your walls as well, which is the necessary precursor for mold.

We have this whole house humidifier installed in our furnace: https://www.aprilaire.com/whole-house-products/humidifier/mo... It has a remote temperature sensor you install outside, then it automatically adjusts the humidity based on the outside temperature to keep it under the mold-growing level.

[numpad0]

One one hand infection experts say humidity protects you, on the other hand they say most types of humidifiers are disease incubators. On top of it it’s a fact that humidifier additives effectively are chemical weapons that works on humans at lower concentrations than it works for pathogens.

We’re sort of in a bind — so how are we supposed to have safe air? 6-hourly bleached, heater based humidifiers running off the tap?

[adrianN]

Heat your homes a little less. There is a big humidity difference between an 18° room and a 24° room.

[Dylan16807]

Install a reverse osmosis system under your sink, and use that to fill the humidifier.

Nothing's going to incubate in that.

[MrGilbert]

I was sick quite often in the past - what helped me was

a) tuning down the room temperatures to ~21°C in winter

b) drink a lot of water

The last time I got really, really sick was in 2017.

[bootlooped]

I don't think it would be possible for a passive unit like this to do such a thing.

With ultrasonic or warm mist (steam) humidifiers you can over-humidify the air.