88 = hospital. Normal readings are over 95.

Anonymous wrote:Use the oximeter in a well lit area. Also will read low if your hands are cold. Try it on someone else, make sure it works.

If it's still below 90, go to the ER.

+1 and as one of the PPs noted, people with COVID can still seem okay while their oxygen is dropping to dangerously low levels.

Use the oximeter in a well lit area. Also will read low if your hands are cold. Try it on someone else, make sure it works.

If it's still below 90, go to the ER.

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Anonymous wrote:People should not be using these at home if they are clueless. You would have already called 911 due to other symptoms if it was really 75.

I agree. It seems like nobody explained the if/then scenarios. That's a problem with being able to buy them off the shelf.

I know that is so odd.

Anonymous wrote:Yes at 75 the person would not lucid and most likely turning blue.

People with COVID can act fine with surprisingly low oxygen readings.

I think OP is playing with a bad broken meter made in China (even though almost ALL of them are made in China).

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Anonymous wrote:People should not be using these at home if they are clueless. You would have already called 911 due to other symptoms if it was really 75.

I agree. It seems like nobody explained the if/then scenarios. That's a problem with being able to buy them off the shelf.

So it's worse than not checking at all? That seems illogical.

Anonymous wrote:People should not be using these at home if they are clueless. You would have already called 911 due to other symptoms if it was really 75.

I agree. It seems like nobody explained the if/then scenarios. That's a problem with being able to buy them off the shelf.

My friend was told to go to the hospital if his dropped below 90%.

Anything below 89 should be taken to the hospital. You can crash pretty quickly. I'm guessing the OP posted then stopped checking thinking it's fine...

People should not be using these at home if they are clueless. You would have already called 911 due to other symptoms if it was really 75.

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Anonymous wrote:Also, warm up their hands first. My friends dad had Covid and they struggled to get an accurate pulse ox. An EMT said to rub his hands to warm them first.

That could be it to. It’s gone up to 88. And my reading was fine. Again thank you all! Good night . I hope.

That’s still really bad.

When my mother was in the hospital alarms sounded and a team arrived to address oxygen levels when her saturation dipped into the low 90s (not covid).

Op, any updates? You should definitely go to the hospital if their reading is below 90.

Make sure that their hand is not pressed down on the table while they are being tested - I did that myself and I got a 91 and as soon as I lifted my hand up and relaxed it went back to 98. But yes, hospital if they’re being tested properly.