Hose cover fixes rainout

WillSucceed · Post by **WillSucceed** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:26 am

I have a friend who made a hose cover for me. She used polar fleece with a lining of "Thinsulate". It is fairly light and insulates exceptionally well. She also made a short cover for the section of hose on the Breeze and, for the section of hose on the Swift.
Now, the hoses are all colourful, warm, quiet and, stay in place slung over the headboard of the bed.
The polar fleece and Thinsulate material were both very inexpensive; she said that she got them both at the local fabric store and sewed together the tubes in no time.
Saved me some coin as I did not have to buy the heated hose.

biggziff · Post by **biggziff** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:30 am

[quote="Jan in Colo."]Well, an inanimate object "gurgling" would most definitely get my attention, so I'd guess I'm not at the amount of rainout that the others are concerned about.

But isn't that great news that you've had two nights without it? I think perhaps your wife deserves a little extra TLC for making that cover.....don't you?

Jan in Colo.

biggziff · Post by **biggziff** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:32 am

[quote="WillSucceed"]I have a friend who made a hose cover for me. She used polar fleece with a lining of "Thinsulate". It is fairly light and insulates exceptionally well. She also made a short cover for the section of hose on the Breeze and, for the section of hose on the Swift.
Now, the hoses are all colourful, warm, quiet and, stay in place slung over the headboard of the bed.
The polar fleece and Thinsulate material were both very inexpensive; she said that she got them both at the local fabric store and sewed together the tubes in no time.
Saved me some coin as I did not have to buy the heated hose.

WAFlowers · Post by **WAFlowers** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 10:16 am

Jan, I've experienced rainout (before I bought a heated hose) as everything from a few drop of condensation that caused some gurgling to enough condensing to fill the barrel of a Swift and eventually get snorted up my nose, choking me! Imagine sticking your nose in a bucket of water and sniffing. Really nasty.

peg · Post by **peg** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 11:37 am

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No question...she gets it from me...she is getting extra special attention as she was recently DX with breast cancer (on our 10th anniversary, no less) She had the surgery and is doing chemo so we try to make her as comfortable as possible....

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Bless your heart!
I will keep the two of you in my prayers.

biggziff · Post by **biggziff** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 2:35 pm

Thanks...prayer and faith has carried us through this so far!

frostman · Post by **frostman** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 5:16 pm

I got mine off ebay, check out this link, reputable seller, good buy, mine works fine

http://cgi.ebay.com/CPAP-Tube-Wrap-Stop ... dZViewItem

Snoozie · Post by **Snoozie** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:37 pm

I also got mine from the Ebay site. While it still gets some moisture in the hose, it definitely has helped a lot, plus I don't have that cold hose touching me now. I also got the one for the small hose on mask. Now I have a pattern to make one with the thinsulate lining.

Janelle · Post by **Janelle** » Mon Oct 24, 2005 8:50 pm

I too, got mine from the CPAP Tube Wrap man. BTW, did you notice he has his own website?

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 2:28 am

WillSucceed,
Are the covers simply tube shaped, wide enough to slip over the connectors, or do they have somenthing to close them around the hose?

Thanks,
O.

Oh 2 breathe · Post by **Oh 2 breathe** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 4:15 am

I use two hose covers that my supplier gave me. They seem to be made of thinsulate-type material and have velcro tabs at each end which makes it easy to get them on the hose and then stay on without sliding. I threaded one inside the other and placed both on my hose. Works great even on cold nights!

~ OTB

Rodrugg · Post by **Rodrugg** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:33 am

Wow! A hose cover sounds awesome and that's awesome! My uncle Stanley has sleep apnea and now my dad says I have it too. He overclocked my uncle's machine and made a "Y" adaptor for the hose so we could both use it. Anyways, that hose gets all filled up with water and then it drips in my nose and it tastes like onions or cabbage or whatever my uncle ate before he went to bed. It is awful and sometimes I have to unhitch myself just to go gargle that taste out of my mouth. That hose cover sounds cool and then I could only have to smell them odors rather than taste them. I think my grandma could make one out of some old army blankets until I get my own machine.

biggziff · Post by **biggziff** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 5:51 am

Dont feed the troll...

Janelle · Post by **Janelle** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 7:30 am

Rodrugg, first of all you should NOT use the same machine as your uncle, since neither of you may be getting the pressure you need. If you get more pressure than you need you could be inducing central apneas which are when the brain shuts off and it forgets to tell the body to start breathing again. This can last for only a few seconds to minutes. I think you can see the consequences. Or you may not be getting enough pressure, which means your apnea is not being treated correctly.

If you don't have insurance, you can get your own equipment through Awake in America which donates machines and masks to those who are underinsured or not insured. But most of all you need to get a sleep test to determine exactly what is going on. There are a lot of conditions which accompany Sleep Apnea and those may need to be addressed as well before just the machine alone will help. You might be able to forgo the sleep test if you can get an Autotitrating unit, but there still are the other factors to consider.

Take a look in your throat in the mirror. Is it mostly closed up from swollen tonsils or a sagging soft palate? Or is it pretty open? If your father thinks you have sleep apnea just because you snore that isn't always necessarily so. Lots of people snore who do NOT have sleep apnea, and lots of people who have sleep apnea DON"T snore. You should do a search for the Epworth Sleepiness Scale and take that test. That will give you a pretty good indication of whether you have Sleep Apnea or not.

WillSucceed · Post by **WillSucceed** » Tue Oct 25, 2005 9:54 am

Are the covers simply tube shaped, wide enough to slip over the connectors, or do they have somenthing to close them around the hose?

Hose cover is a simple tube that is of a big enough diameter to let the hose ends slide through easily. The rubber end of the hose will slide easily if you put a piece of plastic wrap over it that is secured with an elastic band. The plastic wrap will slide easily in the tube whereas the rubber end of the hose does not want to slide very well.
She did not finish the seam all the way to the ends of the tube and put in some velcro so that the fabric tube ends could be secured around the rubber hose ends.
Having the fabric tube being somewhat bigger in diameter than the hose allows for a significant amount of air to be trapped, and kept warm, by hose cover. This hose cover has worked beautifully and was very inexpensive.