Sterilizing A Used Machine?
Posted: Wed Oct 12, 2011 5:28 am
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I'd make sure you ran it without hose and filter for some time though to get the Lysol fumes out of there. Last thing I would want to suck into my lungs when I went to sleep.pap4life wrote:I see no problems to be encountered.
If you have concerns, then wipe the outside with Lysol and then turn it on, and give it a shot (not directly into it) Lyson near the filter intake and you have a machine that is as clean as the present air that you are breathing. Lysol kill over 99% of germs, if there any..
Me too. I wouldn't want any moisture particles from the Lysol entering the machine and frying the electronics.apneawho wrote:I would put new filter in before I would use Lysol.
That is an absolutely horrible idea. You'll either have no useful germ killing on the inside of the machine, or you'll risk ruining your CPAP machine.pap4life wrote:I see no problems to be encountered.
If you have concerns, then wipe the outside with Lysol and then turn it on, and give it a shot (not directly into it) Lyson near the filter intake and you have a machine that is as clean as the present air that you are breathing. Lysol kill over 99% of germs, if there any..
WD40 and a match then?? Kills spiders, I would assume it would do the same to germs?archangle wrote: That is an absolutely horrible idea. You'll either have no useful germ killing on the inside of the machine, or you'll risk ruining your CPAP machine.
There are delicate electronic sensors in the air path inside the CPAP machine. Any kind of chemical sprayed on them is likely to ruin them. Go spray some Lysol on a clean mirror and let it dry. Do you want to leave that residue on the inside of your machine and the delicate electronic sensors of your CPAP machine?
I'm sure someone will pipe in and say they've sprayed Lysol or something else into their CPAP machine with no problems. They may just be lucky, or they really didn't get enough of their sterilizing chemical into the actual internals of the machine to kill the bugs anyway. They may also have had an older dumb CPAP machine without flow sensors, humidity sensors or whatever other sensors are in the newer CPAP machines.
Lysol kills germs when you wet the surface with it. It does NOT produce a vapor that will go everywhere and kill germs. If the vapor was strong enough to kill germs, it would probably kill you as well.
The electronic sensors inside modern CPAP machines do NOT like to get wet.