Aussie hose temperature

Mile High Sleeper · Post by **Mile High Sleeper** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:25 pm

I love my new heated hose from http://www.sleepzone.com. For a few nights, I was able to set heated humidifier at 2 w/ the Aura nasal pillows (aka AEIOMed headrest w/ nasal seals) and my Respironics APAP w/ C flex. Then rainout set in, and I dropped hh to 1. It felt like the hose wasn't heating, even when I put it in a plastic bag to feel it. I used a cooking themometer with a 5 inch shaft and round dial about the size of a half dollar. In a 64 degree F. room at 45% humidity, inside hose temperature was 92 degrees with the dial blocking the end of the hose. When I turned on the APAP air, temp went to 85 degrees, so I know the hose is working. My next experiment is to put a hose cover on the heated hose, and see if I can sneak back up to hh 2 again to help with my blocked nostril. I know the Aura is sensitive to rainout.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:28 pm

Is your machine lower than your bed? That would help. Do you have the hose suspended from your headboard? That would help. Didn't your heated hose come with a hose cover already on it?

Mile High Sleeper · Post by **Mile High Sleeper** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 8:44 pm

Yes, dear Guest. Thanks to the great advice on this forum, I put my machine on a very low shelf almost at floor level, and used a pony tail ring to pin it to the side of the mattress in a straight vertical run, and then another to pin it to the headboard. The hose does have a cover, but I read that some here put on a second cover. It all helps.

capt · Post by **capt** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 10:23 pm

The only things that I can think of are due to you living in Colorado, which has low humidity even when it is raining, compared to other states to the east and south. Perhaps the humidity in your house might be extremely low due to the furnace running at night with the cool nights of winter. Have you checked to see what your house's humidifier is set to? What is the temperature of the room? The lower the room temperature the greater chance to create a rainout problem using your cpap hose using its humidifier.

ozij · Post by **ozij** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 1:13 am

The Aura's sensitivity to rainout is of its own making - those wonderful, soft thing pillows react to the cool outside temprature, and condensation occurs in the pillows themeslve, even when the hose is dry.

Come winter, I added a covering to my heated hose - especially where it touches a cold concrete wall.

I also wrap the Aura's cushion with a very thin soft material - the kind of tube bandage they use put on the top of other bandages on wounded fingers.

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inacpapfog · Post by **inacpapfog** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 6:33 am

I agree with ozij! The Aura's nosepiece has a lot of surface area that is exposed. That is where the condensation is occuring! I covered mine with flannel and it ended the rainout in the nosepiece. I use the heated hose and it certainly ends rainout in the hose itself, compared to a standard hose!

Mile High Sleeper · Post by **Mile High Sleeper** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 12:33 pm

Good advice, all. I'll try wrapping the nose piece. Thanks.

snork1 · Post by **snork1** » Sat Jan 21, 2006 11:19 pm

for sure wrap the exposed mask tubing.

I have a couble wrap on my Aussie heated hose and that makes a BIG difference in being able to up the humidity too.