Concerns about cleaning with tap water
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Concerns about cleaning with tap water
Hello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a brain amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?
Thanks
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a brain amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?
Thanks
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
It depends on your water supply.MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:44 pmHello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?
Thanks
If you use municipal water, a report should be available from your local water company.
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
There's a term for people like that fellow.MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:44 pmHello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?
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"nutjob", technically speaking.
He's full of crap.
I think washing your stuff with distilled water is *stupid*, watch any video from the *manufacturer*, they just use the sink.
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
Does he brush his teeth with Distilled water? Does he bath with distilled water? Does he use distilled water for cooking and washing his dishes?MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:44 pmHello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?
Thanks
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
A lot of us don't even use distilled in our humidifiers.
There is absolutely no merit to contracting brain eating amoeba through CPAP use. Not one documented case.
Add to that, anybody who believes that they can get braining eating amoeba through CPAP, doesn't have enough food source for the amoeba anyway.
There is absolutely no merit to contracting brain eating amoeba through CPAP use. Not one documented case.
Add to that, anybody who believes that they can get braining eating amoeba through CPAP, doesn't have enough food source for the amoeba anyway.
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
What are you washing?MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:44 pmHello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?
Thanks
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
Thanks for the replies.
I have been washing everything including the piece within the humidifier tank, the “air outlet adapter”. I have learned now that not nearly as much cleaning is required. I just wanted to ensure that I wasn’t doing anything stupid. The manufacturers website says clean with “drinking quality water” and I wasn’t sure if that implied tap wouldn’t cut it. Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!
I have been washing everything including the piece within the humidifier tank, the “air outlet adapter”. I have learned now that not nearly as much cleaning is required. I just wanted to ensure that I wasn’t doing anything stupid. The manufacturers website says clean with “drinking quality water” and I wasn’t sure if that implied tap wouldn’t cut it. Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!
Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
His "stuff".ChicagoGranny wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 11:16 amWhat are you washing?MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Tue Apr 04, 2023 8:44 pmHello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?
Thanks
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
Have you heard of marburg, it's going around again.MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:56 pmSorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
Are you in Africa PR? Afraid of getting it?
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
It's not difficult to get worked up about something when the three cases per year that occur amongst 300 Million Americans get trumpeted on the evening news. Play the lottery. You've got a 50-50 chance of winning that before your brain gets eaten by amoebas. Same odds more or less.MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:56 pm...
Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
No, and I'm also not snorting river water, which is my point, were you able to follow subtleties.
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Do you spend your life huddled inside lest you get struck by lightning? (1 in 15,300), I'm sure you NEVER get in a car (odds of getting killed, 1 in 103)amenite wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 2:00 pmIt's not difficult to get worked up about something when the three cases per year that occur amongst 300 Million Americans get trumpeted on the evening news. Play the lottery. You've got a 50-50 chance of winning that before your brain gets eaten by amoebas. Same odds more or less.MinnesotaSnoozer wrote: ↑Wed Apr 05, 2023 12:56 pm...
Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!
You're being *COMPLETELY irrational*.
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Re: Concerns about cleaning with tap water
Since 1962? 7
Of course, this is the CDC's data so someone somewhere will have reason to suspect a global deep state conspiracy to suppress the real truth that [insert fabricated number of cases here] die from brain eating amoebas annually.
I think the real takeaway here is don't clean your CPAP gear in a pond.
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