Cleaning habits
Cleaning habits
New to this but was wondering do people clean the mask and hose everyday or how often?
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Re: Cleaning habits
Did when new, now once a week on the mask and once month on the hose.
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Re: Cleaning habits
Clean according to your immune system...
If you have never been sick, you may be able to just use your equipment for a period of time and then replace it.
If you drive by a school where children are playing and start to feel a tightness in your throat, your eyes start watering, and your nose starts sniffling, and you end up with a "cold" weekly, you want to clean more frequently.
If you have never been sick, you may be able to just use your equipment for a period of time and then replace it.
If you drive by a school where children are playing and start to feel a tightness in your throat, your eyes start watering, and your nose starts sniffling, and you end up with a "cold" weekly, you want to clean more frequently.
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Re: Cleaning habits
My schedule:
Daily: Clean Nasal Pillows, and empty humidifier water. Allow humidifier tank to dry on a towel. If I didn't have such an easy humidifier tank, I might not empty the water since I clean the tank once a week anyway.
Weekly: Clean Entire Mask, Headgear, Humidifier Tank, and Hose. Takes about 20 minutes, and I use the opportunity to thoroughly clean the kitchen sink and counter, change the kitchen washcloth, and change my humidifier drying towel. Clean CPAP with a damp cloth. Flick the dust off the filter.
Monthly: Change the filter.
Daily: Clean Nasal Pillows, and empty humidifier water. Allow humidifier tank to dry on a towel. If I didn't have such an easy humidifier tank, I might not empty the water since I clean the tank once a week anyway.
Weekly: Clean Entire Mask, Headgear, Humidifier Tank, and Hose. Takes about 20 minutes, and I use the opportunity to thoroughly clean the kitchen sink and counter, change the kitchen washcloth, and change my humidifier drying towel. Clean CPAP with a damp cloth. Flick the dust off the filter.
Monthly: Change the filter.
Re: Cleaning habits
It's not the cold virus your body has already fought off that you are concerned with.HoseCrusher wrote: If you drive by a school where children are playing and start to feel a tightness in your throat, your eyes start watering, and your nose starts sniffling, and you end up with a "cold" weekly, you want to clean more frequently.
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Re: Cleaning habits
This is a good place to start:
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89348&hilit=+CPAP+Basics+re%3A
Here's some phrases to type into the search engine space in the upper left corner. Hundreds of hits.
CPAP clean
CPAP mask clean
I clean my hose once a month, mask daily, headgear etc once a week. Probably about average for most users.
viewtopic.php?f=1&t=89348&hilit=+CPAP+Basics+re%3A
Here's some phrases to type into the search engine space in the upper left corner. Hundreds of hits.
CPAP clean
CPAP mask clean
I clean my hose once a month, mask daily, headgear etc once a week. Probably about average for most users.
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I like my ResMed AirFit F10 FFM - reasonably low leaks for my ASV therapy. I'm currently using a PR S1 AutoSV 960P Advanced. I also keep a ResMed S9 Adapt as backup. I use a heated Hibernite hose. Still rockin' with Win 7 by using GWX to stop Win 10.
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Re: Cleaning habits
Clean the nasal pillows and change the filter about once a month. Clean the short hose maybe once a year. Never clean the long hose. I would clean more often if I got sick.
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Re: Cleaning habits
I clean more to have a fresh smelling system than for infection reduction. Pillows daily, mask and tank weekly, hose monthly. Replace all every 6 months.
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Re: Cleaning habits
When I first started treatment, my DME recommended I clean everything weekly. She said that is the schedule she uses for her equipment and her husband's. I maintained that schedule for a while, then slacked off. Now tht cold season is here, I have gone back to that schedule and will keep it at least through the winter.
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Re: Cleaning habits
Just a little post-note: CPAP machine filters (the white fiber ones) tend to get grungy after 2 to 6 weeks, depending on the environment you use them in. Change your filter when it is noticeably the first shade of gray. Medium or dark gray, too late!
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I like my ResMed AirFit F10 FFM - reasonably low leaks for my ASV therapy. I'm currently using a PR S1 AutoSV 960P Advanced. I also keep a ResMed S9 Adapt as backup. I use a heated Hibernite hose. Still rockin' with Win 7 by using GWX to stop Win 10.
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Re: Cleaning habits
If you are getting a cold weekly anyway, why bother to clean?HoseCrusher wrote:you end up with a "cold" weekly, you want to clean more frequently.
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Re: Cleaning habits
I remember cleaning stuff every day, week, then month.
Now I change the filter and nasal pillows every 3 weeks,
and wipe the dust off the top of my machine. I clean the tank when it looks "iffy".
My immunity is working quite well. {{{knock on wood}}}
Now I change the filter and nasal pillows every 3 weeks,
and wipe the dust off the top of my machine. I clean the tank when it looks "iffy".
My immunity is working quite well. {{{knock on wood}}}
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Re: Cleaning habits
EVERY DAY??????Hornnumb2 wrote:New to this but was wondering do people clean the mask and hose everyday or how often?
Not hardly. Never have, never will. Have never "cleaned" a hose in 10 1/2 years and am still using my original ones.
Read everything in this link and you'll get an idea of the spectrum of what the users do:
viewtopic.php?p=567264#p567264
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Re: Cleaning habits
So far I have been cleaning my face mask every morning and then each Sunday I clean the mask, hose, humidifier tank and headgear straps using a CPAP parts dedicated sponge.
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Re: Cleaning habits
I was cleaning it every other day when I first got a CPAP.
I got lazy and started cleaning it once every 2-4 weeks for a while.
For hygiene purposes, I think once or more per week is solid.
Basically, if you have mold and weird stuff growing, you need to be doing a better job. I've never had anything like that grow in my humidifier tank despite my less than satisfactory cleaning habits in the past.
I got lazy and started cleaning it once every 2-4 weeks for a while.
For hygiene purposes, I think once or more per week is solid.
Basically, if you have mold and weird stuff growing, you need to be doing a better job. I've never had anything like that grow in my humidifier tank despite my less than satisfactory cleaning habits in the past.