My thread gives way better advice, but I am a pragmatist, not a doctor: https://www.elitetrader.com/et/thre...-omicron-infection.363556/page-2#post-5511222
Strongly agree. I've had a few since early 2000...used it for training (rowing) and documenting my oxygen levels during my cardio-work. In the fall of 2016, I notice my oxygen levels declining for 3 straight days, and then one night I woke up with a fever. I went straight to the hospital because of low oxygen levels plus a fever...I knew I was seriously ill but didn't know from what. Although my oxygen levels had been declining for several days...I was still breathing normally but was becoming light headed during my workouts. The 3rd day I couldn't even complete my routine...first time that had happen in about 5 years. Then the fever hit me... In the emergency hospital waiting room and reading a magazine, I collapsed (fainted)...stopped breathing, had to be resuscitated, lapsed into a coma, and was put on a ventilator...the following day I was then put on life support. I woke up from the coma about 2 months later and learned I had become ill from sepsis pneumonia/double pneumonia. Had I not been monitoring my oxygen levels during my rowing workouts in those days prior to collapsing in the emergency room waiting room at the hospital...I may have stayed home alone that day after waking up with a fever. Doctors stated I would have died at home had I collapsed in my vacation house because my kids were not scheduled to return back home from their mother's place for another few days. Also, oximeters are great for any serious athlete or anyone that trains hard / stay's in shape. I know a few Olympic athletes in different sports...they all use oximeters when training and even to monitor their oxygen levels from Yoga. wrbtrader
Last night a friend's wife had what seemed to be in a getting serious breathing crisis as a result of a nebuliser antibiotic she was given at home but the medical tech supervising forgot the inhaler first to open her airways. 4am she was struggling to breathe. Oxymeter showed her O2 was good just she was very wheezy. No need to panic, Vics rub in a pan of how water and towel opened her airways and nobody had to Uber to the ER. 24th is Christmas here and the 24/7 pharmacies were all closed. Almost everything starts with knowing the patient's saturation.