Author Topic: HEPA Filters (Read 188 times)

eskimo2 · « **on:** April 07, 2005, 10:54:02 PM »

My preemie daughter is due home from the NICU in a week or two. She is doing well but will be on oxygen and has been diagnosed with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD). For at least the next year she will very sensitive to airborne particles. Particulates that full term babies wouldn’t notice could make her very sick.

So, I need to get a couple of HEPA filters and know nothing about them. I’m looking for the best bang for my buck. If you have any recommendations or advice, please fire away.

Thanks,

eskimo

kevykev56 · « **Reply #1 on:** April 07, 2005, 11:59:52 PM »

Just picked up These From Sams. They seem to work real nice and at a very good price.

Golfer · « **Reply #2 on:** April 08, 2005, 12:24:05 AM »

Glad to know she's alright eskimo.

I have an Ionic breeze along with the car and bathroom ionic breeze's. I think they do a dandy job, and one in the nursery sure couldn't hurt. They're expensive, and I don't know how other filters/systems stack up to them but I don't have anything bad to say about it.

Best of luck the next year or so sir.

eagl · « **Reply #3 on:** April 08, 2005, 03:04:07 PM »

The best/cheapest way to do the filter thing is to buy a big box fan, one of those big square ones, and then tape a HEPA central air filter to the intake side. It will cost 1/10th of what a regular room filter costs, but it will be quieter and cost less for replacement filters. You can get really high quality filters at most department stores. I usually got my filters at lowes or home depot, the best superduper anti-allergen 3M filters I could find.

Mickey1992 · « **Reply #4 on:** April 08, 2005, 03:44:08 PM »

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Originally posted by eagl
The best/cheapest way to do the filter thing is to buy a big box fan, one of those big square ones, and then tape a HEPA central air filter to the intake side. It will cost 1/10th of what a regular room filter costs, but it will be quieter and cost less for replacement filters. You can get really high quality filters at most department stores. I usually got my filters at lowes or home depot, the best superduper anti-allergen 3M filters I could find.

I have also done this. Works like a charm. Make sure you also get a HEPA filter for your furnace and vaccuum cleaner too.

If you have central heating/cooling, I would also put filters on the floor vents in the bedroom. Even if you put a HEPA filter on the furnace, you don't want the old crap in the ducts coming loose and blowing into the room.

ASTAC · « **Reply #5 on:** April 08, 2005, 04:17:50 PM »

You could ask the Navy if you could move aboard an Arleigh Burke Class DDG:D