Hi fellow Hiveians,

Today I wanted to talk about how sometimes, we can get a little overzealous in life, and it end up potentially causing some issues!

Too Much of a Good Thing

A few months back I was really excited to share one of the kitchen gadgets that I purchased, an Ozone generator. It's been one of my favorite tools that I've gotten lately, that's for sure! It isn't without it's dangers though..

We know that just going around and breathing in ozone is impossible for the most part, because ozone is o3 and our bodies can't process it. We need o2 in order to breathe and that's a good thing. Ozone though, it is an incredibly powerful and natural substance that has all kinds of wonderful benefits like killing bacteria, viruses, cleaning things and the like.

What can happen though, is when we use the ozone generator we need to make sure that we use it in a well-ventilated area! Woops..

Now I want to preface that I only use it very briefly at a time, for 10 minutes per session. This is a setting on the device itself to provide the necessary amount of ozone to clean and kill the nasty things on fruits and vegetables which is important. What I've been struggling with though is that while I can operate just fine around it, my wife and son aren't as lucky!

The smell of the ozone is definitely something that I kind of enjoy, and I can breathe in the air in the area without an issue. Where the issue lies though is that my wife and son are more sensitive to it, and that presented a problem.

Since I got the generator, I tested it out and used it once in the kitchen but my son was really upset about it. He hated the smell so I had to turn the fans on, open the windows and all that. I decided that it would be best to put the device in a different room to do it's business while we were in the kitchen or living room doing other things. The product manufacturer says that it's perfectly fine to use the device in the kitchen while you are using it, but everyone is a bit different.

The most recent time I used it, I decided to put the thing in the upstairs bathroom next to the bedroom the little man sleeps in. That was a big mistake! He didn't get sick, but it definitely filled the room with the odor and we ended up getting nervous even though the device was off for about an hour before we went to bed, the smell was still pretty strong unfortunately. Thankfully we got to move him downstairs where there was no smell and he slept and woke up fine.

It was a bit scary to go through it because although the ozone generator is an amazing tool for our health and wellbeing, you have to make sure to respect these things and not take them too far! You could certainly get hurt by it and thankfully nothing happened here, but from now on we will be using the ozone generator outside instead of in the house. Definitely a lesson learned there for me!

What about you, have you tried to do something that was beneficial but ended up doing it a little more than you should have? What happened? Let me know in the comments!

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