User Experience with Hose Cover

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HockeyGirl22
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User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by HockeyGirl22 » Wed Sep 06, 2017 8:12 pm

Would appreciate your thoughts with using a hose cover if your machine uses heated tubing to the mask. Does the cover make a noticeable difference with your CPAP therapy? Thanks in advance.

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Re: User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by RicaLynn » Wed Sep 06, 2017 8:24 pm

Only in the fact that keeping my cat from perforating the tube means my pressures stay consistent and keeps the therapy device silent, thus enhancing my sleeping environment...

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Re: User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by Bertha de Blues » Wed Sep 06, 2017 8:25 pm

HockeyGirl22 wrote:Would appreciate your thoughts with using a hose cover if your machine uses heated tubing to the mask. Does the cover make a noticeable difference with your CPAP therapy? Thanks in advance.
It can help prevent rainout if you use an unheated hose with humidification, but yours is heated, so you won't notice a difference there. Some users say it cuts down on noise. I have a heated hose with humidification and tried a hose cover a couple of nights. Couldn't tell any difference at all.

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Re: User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by WearyOne » Wed Sep 06, 2017 9:31 pm

I have a two-foot regular hose extension between my heated hose and mask, plus I can't stand the noise the hose makes rubbing against the back of the nightstand. So I have always used a cover and don't know if it makes any difference or not. But the old heated hose I had up until a couple of months ago--which they don't make anymore--had a thin attached cover. I'm thinking they must of thought it helped some or wouldn't have bothered to put it on there.

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Re: User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by palerider » Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:06 pm

HockeyGirl22 wrote:Would appreciate your thoughts with using a hose cover if your machine uses heated tubing to the mask. Does the cover make a noticeable difference with your CPAP therapy? Thanks in advance.
It'll reduce the electricity needed to keep the tube warm.

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Re: User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by WearyOne » Wed Sep 06, 2017 11:46 pm

palerider wrote:
HockeyGirl22 wrote:Would appreciate your thoughts with using a hose cover if your machine uses heated tubing to the mask. Does the cover make a noticeable difference with your CPAP therapy? Thanks in advance.
It'll reduce the electricity needed to keep the tube warm.
Ah, excellent point!

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Re: User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by Marillion » Thu Sep 07, 2017 10:36 am

For me, since I have a heated hose anyways. The primary use is to reduce the sound of the hose rubbing on the backboard of the bed.

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Re: User Experience with Hose Cover

Post by Okie bipap » Thu Sep 07, 2017 11:14 am

Marillion wrote:For me, since I have a heated hose anyways. The primary use is to reduce the sound of the hose rubbing on the backboard of the bed.
I agree. My wife and I both have hose covers and they reduce the noise the hose makes where it rubs on the headboard.

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