How Do I Dry Inside My CPAP Hose After Washing?

N O !

davwtalk wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 11, 2023 3:59 am

Do you really need to clean inside of the hose?

In 3030, anthropologists will write this up as a quaint religious practice of an ancient people.

Julie wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 11, 2023 4:00 am

N O !

to emphasize-

HELL N O !

Although some outer space aliens, much as in their so-called "sleep studies," still advocate the more complicated, controversial, and expensive 'bullet-and-probe' method:

The Lumin Bullet. . . . Insert the sanitizing probe into your CPAP hose and collapse the Bullet casing around the probe. The magnets in the Bullet will pick up the sanitizing probe. Guide it through the Bullet and in under two minutes the inside of your hose will be sanitized and ready for use immediately.--https://www.cpap.com/blog/need-know-cpap-cleaning/

Sounds painful.

lazarus wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:43 pm

Although some outer space aliens, much as in their so-called "sleep studies," still advocate the more complicated, controversial, and expensive 'bullet-and-probe' method:

The Lumin Bullet. . . . Insert the sanitizing probe into your CPAP hose and collapse the Bullet casing around the probe. The magnets in the Bullet will pick up the sanitizing probe. Guide it through the Bullet and in under two minutes the inside of your hose will be sanitized and ready for use immediately.--https://www.cpap.com/blog/need-know-cpap-cleaning/

Sounds painful.

depends upon what you wrap it around.

and hey! it's only a hundred bucks.

how have i managed to live this long without it?

chunkyfrog wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 11, 2023 12:46 pm

Remember the image someone posted a few years ago?
They caught an earwig, dropped it into a hose, and did a horror photo shoot.
Probably. Pathetic twerps will do anything to get attention.
Should have given it a little mop, and put it to work.

I actually had an earwig in my nasal cushion.

Freaked me the fuq out so that whole summer I wrapped the entire machine in a drawstring veggie bag with a tight mesh.

That was our old place. Much better now.

Pretty sure it wasn’t me that posted photos tho. Was too busy freaking and killing at 11pm.

Conrad wrote: ↑

Mon Sep 04, 2023 6:36 am

I clean my hoses and equipment and have been doing so since I started treatment ~12 years ago. I clean once a week and I have yet to 'wear anything out'. I replace my nasal pillow and machine filter once a month and everything else gets swapped out once a year.

That said, I don't use anything to dry my hoses out, I do hang them up in my bedroom. I also empty my water reservoir (oh the horror), shake out the water, and with it open, I turn it upside down to dry.

BUT, if a person wanted to dry their hoses out, a battery-operated air pump, of the type used to inflate an air mattress, would be perfect. I have such a pump and the end of the CPAP air hose fits perfectly onto the pump fitting. The pump can be set to either blow or suck. (Comments from the peanut gallery are welcome)

I’m a year in and have read and heard soooo much in opinions on everything, in every kinda forum and blog site in a quest to educate myself.

Long story short, I understand where you’re coming from. I had the experience early in my game of rinsing, wiping, changing out whenever until…. that whenever time came around and I wiped my water chamber and kept getting pinkish/reddish marks on a paper towel I was using to clean. On further examination (holding the water chamber up to the light) I discovered pinkish/reddish fuzzy stuff in the corners of chamber. I concluded my machine settings, environment and slack cleaning habits probably all shared a blame in what I discovered growing in the chamber. That being said, I now follow a regiment very similiar to yours. So it comes down to doing what makes you comfortable.