Poll: What do you do when colds or allergies come visiting?

General Discussion on any topic relating to CPAP and/or Sleep Apnea.

What do you do when colds or allergies come visiting?

No problem, full face mask or Hybrid all the time.
11
24%
Back up of Full face mask
10
22%
Back up of Hybrid
3
7%
When congestion gets to bad, go without xPAP
4
9%
No severe cold/allergies that stopped xPAP
8
18%
Healthy, No colds since starting xPaP
4
9%
New to xPAP
5
11%
 
Total votes: 45

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Re: Poll: What do you do when colds or allergies come visiting?

Post by Pugsy » Tue Oct 27, 2015 9:02 pm

lucrezaborgia wrote:I was actually going to ask about this. I have a horrible cold with nasal congestion but my tube isn't heated so I'm getting a lot of rainout. Until I can get a heated tube what is my bestboption. Higher humidity? Lower?
If you want to keep the humidity levels higher you might try making a homemade hose cozy and slip it over the hose to help insulate it and maybe lessen chance of rain out happening.
I made one with some old thick socks...cut the toe out a little so I could slide the sock over the hose...did several of them and secured with tape or rubber bands. Wasn't pretty but it got the job done.

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Re: Poll: What do you do when colds or allergies come visiting?

Post by Lucyhere » Tue Oct 27, 2015 10:42 pm

chunkyfrog wrote:The upside is the people who are so annoyed by a perfectly harmless act.
Right?
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Re: Poll: What do you do when colds or allergies come visiting?

Post by chunkyfrog » Wed Oct 28, 2015 4:12 pm

It is more healthy to be amused by foolishness than frustrated over failing to contribute to their education.
Especially when universal enlightenment is a lost cause. At least it is ordinarily someone new.
Repeat offenders, hmm, ???

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