Vicks Personal Steam Inhaler for Targeted Relief from Congestion

bought this for sinus and congestion relief and it works really good. fill it with water, let it heat up, stick your face over it and just breathe. the steam is warm and soothing and within a few minutes my sinuses feel way clearer. comes with a vapopad which adds a nice menthol kick. easy to clean and the mask fits comfortably. great for nights when youre stuffed up and just wanna breathe right before bed. used it several times now and still works like new

This Vicks personal steam inhaler works amazingly well for congestion and sinus relief. The warm steam provides instant comfort, and using it with the VapoPad makes breathing much easier. It’s compact, simple to set up, and perfect for quick relief at home. I love that it’s drug-free and targeted, so I can use it whenever I need. Great quality as expected from Vicks—highly recommended for anyone dealing with allergies or colds!

Like I said in the title, it works. It works well! But it gets crusty very fast. I use this for two reasons: for one, as a singer, I need to keep my vocal cords hydrated even in Midwestern miserable dry and cold seasons. This gives me targeted relief. Your throat-coat teas are nice, but don't actually help hydrate your vocal cords. This does. Plus, if your sinuses aren't clear, they will be, because you'll get the impossibly gross experience of all your phlegm suddenly leaking out of your skull as the steam permeates. Yummy. For two, we learned the hard way that running whole-home vaporizers damages our furnace. If we can't create a more comfortable macroenvironment, I need this little thing to at least ease my microenvironment. It takes a little time to heat up, but once it does, you get a good 20 minutes of steam. Hold your head over it and just breathe it in. Read a book or something. I sit at the kitchen table with this on and do crosswords. It needs to rest on something stable and flat, so it's not something to have in your lap while lying on the couch, but it's fine for sitting at the table. Maybe it's because of Iowa water, though, but you have to scrub limey grit off after pretty much every use even if you filter your water. That's really it - it gets crusty quickly, and I'd like it if the cords were longer. Otherwise? It does the job and cuts down on the notorious Midwestern winter bleeding sinuses.

I got my Vicks Steam Inhaler a few days ago. I had been choosing between it and the Mabis one. However, the latter costs $20 more so I decided to go with this one considering almost identical review ratings. I would rate it with 4.5 starts, not with 5. There is still a little room for improvement. It is pretty compact and quick. It starts producing steam in about 4 minutes. Yes, you can regulate the amount of steam. But I found that hot air makes me breath faster and, as a result, there is not enough steam produced by the machine between my breaths. Fortunately, I came up with a nice and simple solution. The mask has a few holes in it to mix the steam with some fresh air. If I cover with my fingers some or all three holes I get enough steam with every inhalation. It's pretty convenient, at least, for me and allows to (manually) regulate the amount of steam. Another thing important for me was a possibility to use oil. Neither Vicks or Mabis inhaler assume that you can directly add aroma oil to water. Both brands sale their own inhaler pads designed to work with their machines. But the choice of oils is very limited. By the way, the Vicks Inhaler comes with a disposable pad good for one time use. Some people reported that they had still added a few drops of oil. For some it worked fine, for the others it didn't work that well screwing in some way the water heating surface. What I did is I bought this refill kit (http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000XPX1HG) and it's been working great for me. You can put a pad directly on the plastic thing with the holes the steam comes out. The only difference with the original pad is form but it works great. It does not mess with the water heating surface and you can refill those cotton pads with any oil you want. For the future, I'm going to buy cotton pads and oil separately. I prefer to use calendula and there is no pads or kits coming with calendula extract.

I've been using this for 5 days quite a bit (since 4/19/14) with the Kaz pads. I'm on Spring Break now and have the time to do so. It has helped tremendously to open up the respiratory/bronchial passages so that I can breathe much better. On 4/12 and 4/13, I was having severe problems breathing, but was too weak to go to urgent care to get help. I used a liquid supplement called respiratory complex that I get at Whole Foods Market along with Oregano oil and Olive leaf extract (extremely strong--recommend the capsules) in addition to other supplements. Those helped, but I did finally go to urgent care (no choice, had to get a doctor's excuse for work) and had treatments there for a few hours. Even after all the supplements, treatments and prescriptions, I noticed a significant difference after using this vaporizer, even more so with the Kaz pads. I only wish that I had known years ago about using these vaporizers for symptoms of bronchitis. It could have alleviated symptoms and prevented a lot of suffering. I've had bronchitis many times and pneumonia a few times, starting at 4 years old. I've never smoked. Perhaps it was as a result of breathing smog in Southern California. It was a lot worse in the 1960's when I first was struck with respiratory problems. I highly recommend this vaporizer with the Kaz pads for temporarily alleviating the symptoms of bronchitis--especially for opening up the breathing passages and reducing coughing. Just a few minutes ago, I added eucalyptus oil to the Kaz pad, even though they advise against it. I used the vaporizer with this pad and it helped. I do recommend, as another reviewer noted, keeping your eyes closed when using oils on the pad. They are quite strong and best to keep out of your eyes. They also have Vick's Vaposteam, designed to be used with vaporizers. That's obviously not pure water. (I haven't had a chance to use it as it hasn't arrived yet, even though it was ordered at the same time).

Purchase this for a family member who had a bad bout with bronchitis. This did help with loosening up the congestion and providing some relief before bedtime. Their complaint was that it was a little intense in terms of heat temperature, and the menthol aroma, which was a bit overpowering. the cost was pricey, but with the namebrand like Vicks and the reviews seem to point in a positive direction. Let’s just hope this lasts for years to come with occasional use and no broken plastic parts like some have complained about withholding a star for the intensity and one for long-term use, which cannot be measured now.

The unit is approximately 8-1/2 inches high and 5-1/2 inches wide, It has an on/off switch, soft inhaler hood, and air flow levers to adjust the steam flow. It is easy to fill with water and clean after use. We followed the advice of another post, and bought some 100% cotton make up removers/cleansing rounds by Equate they're 60 to a package, and cost $2.37. Then we bought a 4 ounce bottle of the KAZ liquid inhalant, it's cost was $2.38. I made a small hole in the center of one of the flat round cotton pads and lightly dabbed a little of the inhalant around the surface of the pad. Then placed the pad over the center post. The pads are slightly larger than the sample (1) KAZ aromatic inhalant pad that came with the unit. You can trim them to fit or tuck them in around the inside of the inhaler hood. We kept our face 3 to 4 inches off the soft inhaler hood and breathed in the soothing vapors. The steam vapors can get very hot, so keep a comfortable distance away, and adjust the steam flow with the flow levers around the inhaler hood. This unit works very well giving a 5 to 15 minute treatment depending on the amount of water added to the reservoir. Both my wife and I used the inhaler with very good results. It really does help clear the sinuses when you suffer with a cold or allergies. We are both very happy with the product. Hope this helped.

I loved it. It worked great! It helped my rhinitis due to a deviated septum. Until the plastic tabs that held the top portion to the base started cracking and breaking off. I've bought this in March, it is now November. Still under warranty, right? Yes, it is. I've sent photos of the broken tabs. The plastic became brittle over the months for some reason, so I contacted Kaz, who is the parent company of this Vicks Personal Steam Inhaler. They were polite--mostly because the emails were from a pre-written script. I've sent them all my information: address, photos, copy of receipt, date code that's stamped on the plug of the unit. Then they want me to send it in so they can send me a replacement. So this item was close to $30 but not quite $30 when I bought it. The shipping would have cost me approximately $15 to ship it to Kaz for a replacement. So why should I pay for shipping a defective item to the manufacturer that would cost more than half the price of the unit? I shouldn't be paying for shipping the defective item back to the manufacturer due to a manufacturer's defect. Kaz customer rep told me it's the standard warranty procedure many other major companies use. I've written back to them telling them over the last 20 years, Bionaire/Sunbeam, Oxo, Vornado, Simplehuman, and Waterpik have never told me to pay for shipping a defective unit back to them. If I dropped the unit and broke it, that's my fault. This is a manufacturer's defect (not my fault) and they want me to pay for shipping the unit to them. So before you buy any of the Kaz's line of products, just hope that you will never have to send your unit in because of a manufacturer's defect. Their warranty is inferior to other great companies. They lack the integrity other major companies possess. UPDATE: So I've tried to post a review on Vicks website on my experience dealing with their company. Pressed "submit review" and guess what came back!?! "Error submitting review." Their website wouldn't allow me to post an unfavorable review!

A natural way to clear any nasal blockage and avoid allergies

A must have product

Ayant contracté une pneumonie très virulente, j'ai commandé et utilisé cet Inhalateur à vapeur ce qui a aidé à humidifier et injecter de l'air avec un antitussif dans mes poumons (j'en avais badigeonné le dispenser d'un couche d'onguent Vicks Vaporub (petit contenant bleu)). On peut soit le respirer directement en se positionnant au dessus du diffuseur ou le laisser se diffuser dans la pièce, qui est très pratique pour traiter les jeunes enfants .

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Este vaporizador es genial, no estorba, es muy portátil, hace lo que debe hacer sin más. Es fácil de limpiar y se pueden usar almohadillas de olor VICKS con él.