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“The best way to treat babies with a cough is to use a dehumidifier for congested coughs, or a humidifier for dry coughs, and ensure the child is well-hydrated.”

(Source)

Why not just give your baby cough medicine?

I highly recommend you to talk to your doctor before you give your baby any kind of cough syrup. According to a study from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, one third of the 7,000 toddlers who use hospital emergency rooms suffered from allergic reaction every year. Another report from The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP)
warned parents NOT TO use over-the-counter suppressant, antihistamine or similar products without a prescription from doctor. FDA has also warned parents that cold and cough medicine will cause adverse side effect to children under two years old.

(Announcement from FDA)

Remedies for baby cough?

In addition to a dehumidifier, warm water is also an effective and natural way to cure baby cough. You can bathe your baby into warm water with a few drops of eucalyptus oil. Herbal rub is also a good way cure baby cough. All you need to do is to mix 1 tablespoon of olive oil and 2 drops of eucalyptus oil together, and rub it on the chest and back of your baby. After the mixture vaporized, you will realize that your baby breathes a lot easier than before. Also, the mixture is good to calm your baby down and make him/her a lot easier to sleep. If you find the two methods mentioned above is too annoying, simply grab a plastic suctioning bulb from the supermarket. It is a quick and easy way to help relieve his symptoms.

If you are skeptical about the remedies mentioned above, here is the advice from Dr. Ben Spitalnick (Review of this Doctor):

“This is going to sound old timey but there are some old remedies that do still work, a dehumidifier by the bedside, pushing fluids, help you kids drink that helps. Tylenol and Motrin fever medicine help them feel better and if you think your child is sick enough to need medicine have your doctor check them out.”

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Probably many of you want to find a good way to solve the moisture problem in your basement, and that is why you are here reading articles to learn more about dehumidifiers. For those of you who do spend time doing your research, you would find a product called Humidex which is also claim to help solve your basement moisture problem. You may probably wonder whether or not you should spend extra dollar to get a Humidex instead. You are lucky to have found AirDehumidifier.com, because we have already done the research for you so that you don’t have to spend 2-3 hours finding information on Google or Yahoo! Here is our view on this Dehumidifier vs. Humidex debate:

Before we get to the meat of the story, I thing it would be necessary to give you some information about what a Humidex is (just in case you are too lazy to do your research). Basically, Humidex is a ventilation unit that will exhaust the trapped moist, excess humidity or contaminated air to outside through a duct. The air is then replaced by warmer and fresher air from outdoors or upper level. With the built-in Humidstat, Humidex can continues to remove moist air from the house and replace it with warmer air, which should theoretically lower the relative humidity.

According to both the experts and the users experience, using Humidex is 90% less expensive to run than a dehumidifier because it consumes only 38 watts of electricity, which should on average cost you $2 a month on your electric bill. What’s more powerful is that it can act as a whole house dehumidifier to dehumidify your basement, crawl space and upper levels.

It sounds good, doesn’t it?

Even though it is much cheaper to run a Humidex than a dehumidifier, the upfront cost of a Humidex is approximately 7 times than the price of a dehumidifier. A fully installed Humidex costs from $1500 to $1800. Even if you don’t mind using a second hand Humidex, the installation cost alone by local installer should cost you around $250, which already allows you to get a brand dehumidifier online plus shipping. You really need to do you own math to see if buying a Humidex is a smart choice.

Moreover, if the humidity ratio of the air outside your house is higher than the ratio inside, lots of moist air is added to the house and it will result in an expensive electric bill. There is no doubt that when the air outside is dry, Humidex is doing a good job keeping the moisture down. However, there is “NO guarantee” that it will perform as well when the outside air is no longer cold or dry. That means the ability of Humidex, as an air exchanger, to reduce humidity in your house depends highly on the condition outside of your house. If a salesperson comes to you telling you that it is the only way to solve your year-round moisture problem, chances are s/he is trying to ripped you off. In order to drain the moistuer air in your house, which is NOT a function of Humidex, you still need a dehumidifier.

Notice that I am NOT saying Humidex doesn’t work. It does help you to lower the humitidy in your house. What I am trying to point out is that it is hard to tell whether a dehumidifier or Humidex will better suit your needs. You really have to do your own math to see which option is better for your house.

Here is what a happy customer said about Humidex:

“I had a humidex in my last home and it does what it says. My basement
was as dry as it was when I was using a dehumidifier, however, my
electric bill was much lower with the humidex.”

Are you willing to pay more upfront so that you can have a lower electric bill in the future? That is the question you should be asking yourself.