Concerns about cleaning with tap water

[MinnesotaSnoozer]

Hello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a brain amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?

Thanks

[chunkyfrog]

Hello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?

Thanks

It depends on your water supply.
If you use municipal water, a report should be available from your local water company.
If the well is an open shaft, over which chickens roost, I'd boil the heck out of it.

[palerider]

Hello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?

Thanks

There's a term for people like that fellow.

"nutjob", technically speaking.

He's full of crap.

I think washing your stuff with distilled water is *stupid*, watch any video from the *manufacturer*, they just use the sink.

[LSAT]

Hello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?

Thanks

Does he brush his teeth with Distilled water? Does he bath with distilled water? Does he use distilled water for cooking and washing his dishes?

[Dog Slobber]

A lot of us don't even use distilled in our humidifiers.

There is absolutely no merit to contracting brain eating amoeba through CPAP use. Not one documented case.

Add to that, anybody who believes that they can get braining eating amoeba through CPAP, doesn't have enough food source for the amoeba anyway.

[ChicagoGranny]

Hello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?

Thanks

What are you washing?

[MinnesotaSnoozer]

Thanks for the replies.
I have been washing everything including the piece within the humidifier tank, the “air outlet adapter”. I have learned now that not nearly as much cleaning is required. I just wanted to ensure that I wasn’t doing anything stupid. The manufacturers website says clean with “drinking quality water” and I wasn’t sure if that implied tap wouldn’t cut it. Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!

[palerider]

Hello, new to the forum, been using a CPAP for about a year.
I recently had some concerns brought to me by a fellow user after witnessing me clean my stuff in the sink. He said he only cleans with distilled because of a delay amoeba that could be in the tap water. Now it’s in my head, is there any merit to that? Do you guys always clean with distilled or with regular sink water?

Thanks

What are you washing?

His "stuff".

[palerider]

Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!

Have you heard of marburg, it's going around again.

[Julie]

Are you in Africa PR? Afraid of getting it?

[amenite]

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Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!

It's not difficult to get worked up about something when the three cases per year that occur amongst 300 Million Americans get trumpeted on the evening news. Play the lottery. You've got a 50-50 chance of winning that before your brain gets eaten by amoebas. Same odds more or less.

[ChicagoGranny]

three cases per year that occur amongst 300 Million Americans

How many were from tap water?

[palerider]

Are you in Africa PR? Afraid of getting it?

No, and I'm also not snorting river water, which is my point, were you able to follow subtleties.

[palerider]

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Sorry if I come off as irrational but the thought of the amoeba was quite scary to me!

It's not difficult to get worked up about something when the three cases per year that occur amongst 300 Million Americans get trumpeted on the evening news. Play the lottery. You've got a 50-50 chance of winning that before your brain gets eaten by amoebas. Same odds more or less.

Do you spend your life huddled inside lest you get struck by lightning? (1 in 15,300), I'm sure you NEVER get in a car (odds of getting killed, 1 in 103)

You're being *COMPLETELY irrational*.

[amenite]

three cases per year that occur amongst 300 Million Americans

How many were from tap water?

Since 1962? 7

Of course, this is the CDC's data so someone somewhere will have reason to suspect a global deep state conspiracy to suppress the real truth that [insert fabricated number of cases here] die from brain eating amoebas annually.

I think the real takeaway here is don't clean your CPAP gear in a pond.