Low humididity

[fuzeman]

Anyone else having issues with low humididity, dry skin ( mainly finger tips ), and touch screens, like on cell phones?
I’ve never used finger-print ID on any devices because of dry finger tips in winter, but this winter it seems worse than usual.
Humididity in the house is low, 29% atm, and we do have a dry winter house.
On occasion when the tip doesn't register, exhaling on them with damp breath can help for a short time.

[Bizman]

I have a customer who can't use a smart phone for that very reason, all year long. His fingertips are too dry to register.

[Easyscor]

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[RotBaron]

29% is above average humidity for the desert environment I live in…

However, I notice dry skin (especially hands in the winter, and also sinuses) which I attribute to mainly two things, forced air furnace heat (even worse with radiated heat) and soap.

With Covid people are washing their hands properly instead of soap for 3-5 seconds and rinse and also using hand sanitizer with alcohol much more frequently.

Of course I’m not sure if the above is causing it for you…

Working with your hands in dry cold air also used to get me in Colorado.

When I worked for UPS it got to the point of having to wear gloves as the cardboard boxes steal the oils from your hands.

My knuckles and fingers are so dry right now that I’m using Neosporin instead of moisturizer. Once the cuts, cracks and abrasions heal I’ll go back to an aloe Vera based product.  Fingerprint ID on devices still works for me, but it’s not my fingertips….

[Spikes]

Anyone else having issues with low humididity, dry skin ( mainly finger tips ), and touch screens, like on cell phones?
I’ve never used finger-print ID on any devices because of dry finger tips in winter, but this winter it seems worse than usual.
Humididity in the house is low, 29% atm, and we do have a dry winter house.
On occasion when the tip doesn't register, exhaling on them with damp breath can help for a short time.

It's certainly been exceptionally cold/dry for an extended period up here. Much longer than I can think in recent memory.

[fuzeman]

29% is above average humidity for the desert environment I live in…

However, I notice dry skin (especially hands in the winter, and also sinuses) which I attribute to mainly two things, forced air furnace heat (even worse with radiated heat) and soap.

With Covid people are washing their hands properly instead of soap for 3-5 seconds and rinse and also using hand sanitizer with alcohol much more frequently.

Of course I’m not sure if the above is causing it for you…

Working with your hands in dry cold air also used to get me in Colorado.

When I worked for UPS it got to the point of having to wear gloves as the cardboard boxes steal the oils from your hands.

My knuckles and fingers are so dry right now that I’m using Neosporin instead of moisturizer. Once the cuts, cracks and abrasions heal I’ll go back to an aloe Vera based product.  Fingerprint ID on devices still works for me, but it’s not my fingertips….

Absolutely the hand washing and sanitizer dries them out. Gloves worn opposed to using that when I go out if possible
Used to help a guy deliver Sunday papers and those dried up the hand a lot. Gloves a necessity for dryness and ink there. Allergic to neomycin sulfate so I use double antibiotic cream when needed. I do peroxide rinses on hands and they turn white from bubbles. Rinse and apply some castor oil and that helps to a degree.
When I found out about that allergy my hands were blister city and I overdid the topical corticosteroids and that also effected the skin on my hands.

[Blooz]

Get a humidifier in your house. You can also boil water on the stove. My grandparents always had a humidifier running all winter and it wasn't until years later I understood why. Not only does it combat the dry skin but it reduces the carpet static shocks. Got to keep the humidity up in winter.

Get some O'Keefe's "Working Hands" hand cream. Get the small flat green can (goes on nearly dry. a little dab will do ya. feels like a light wax coating on your skin). Don't bother with the tube stuff (it's too greasy) It's miracle stuff. I've tried them all and this stuff works! I use it on both hands and feet. If your hands and fingers are split badly, it'll take about three days for this stuff to heal them up. After that just apply a couple times a day and you'll be golden. I get mine at Walgreen's but I'm sure other places have it.

[fuzeman]

I shall investigate that stuff. Thanks <S>

Where’s that shoveling snow emoji??

[Shuffler]

After Hurricane Harvey flooded my home, I went with all porcelain floors. No more carpet in my home. Walls in the bathrooms are mostly porcelain too.

[Dichotomy]

Anyone else having issues with low humididity, dry skin ( mainly finger tips ), and touch screens, like on cell phones?
I’ve never used finger-print ID on any devices because of dry finger tips in winter, but this winter it seems worse than usual.
Humididity in the house is low, 29% atm, and we do have a dry winter house.
On occasion when the tip doesn't register, exhaling on them with damp breath can help for a short time.

I do indoor gardening as a hobby now.  At the seedling stage they really prefer 70 to 80% humidity.  I'm getting lucky if I get 35%.  So ya low humidity is an issue for me right now.  I'm going to have to buy a couple of humidifiers to put into my tents to get my plants where they need to be.  They're doing okay for now because I mist them a few times a day but I'd really prefer it to be seamless

[guncrasher]

i get nose bleeds almost every night, i boil water to bring humidity up.  have one of them humidifiers but wont seem to make a difference, then again we have had winds 50+ for almost 3 weeks.


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[Bizman]

Have you tried flushing your sinuses with salt water using a nose can?

[Eagler]

I do indoor gardening as a hobby now.  At the seedling stage they really prefer 70 to 80% humidity.  I'm getting lucky if I get 35%.  So ya low humidity is an issue for me right now.  I'm going to have to buy a couple of humidifiers to put into my tents to get my plants where they need to be.  They're doing okay for now because I mist them a few times a day but I'd really prefer it to be seamless

Enjoy those tomatoes

Eagler

[Dichotomy]

Get a humidifier in your house. You can also boil water on the stove. My grandparents always had a humidifier running all winter and it wasn't until years later I understood why. Not only does it combat the dry skin but it reduces the carpet static shocks. Got to keep the humidity up in winter.

Get some O'Keefe's "Working Hands" hand cream.

Working hands is the bomb.  When i was stocking groceries on the side for the last few years the amount of cardboard I dealt with on a day to day basis had my hands so dried out and painful.  Once I got some of that stuff it was a new world for me.  It got to the point that every new person that they hired in my department got a free can on first day with instructions to use it. 

[guncrasher]

Have you tried flushing your sinuses with salt water using a nose can?

tried that years ago, couldn't stand it.  don't like the feeling.  thank God wind stopped.


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