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Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2022 5:11 pm
by LSAT
The CPAP is filtering your room air. If the filter is getting dirty at 2-4 weeks, it means that the air you and your family are breathing 24/7 is dirty. I would be more concerned with that.
Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2022 6:37 pm
by chunkyfrog
Every 21 days, whether it needs it or not.
When Kansas is burning the prairie (in a month or three) we get smoke.
Some days anybody can smell it--the rest of the time, folks with
respiratory issues suffer alone.
Just reminding folks that Kansas hates asthmatics in Nebraska.
Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:00 pm
by southerndoc
palerider wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 2:13 pm
And, just
where do you think that ridiculous 'schedule' came from?
FROM THEIR CUSTOMERS THE DMEs.
When in doubt, believe the
clinician manual, not the stuff that's out there for the punters...
Do you get your medical advice off
WebMD? I hope not.
I don't understand why you're such an arse to everybody on here.
I asked what others were doing and quoted you the article that is posted by ResMed, not from WebMD.
Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:30 pm
by palerider
southerndoc wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:00 pm
I don't understand why you're such an arse to everybody on here.
I asked what others were doing and quoted you the article that is posted by ResMed, not from WebMD.
I'm certainly not an arse to "everybody" on here, just the ones that say dumb things.
I'd have *hoped* that a clinician would know where to get the more accurate info, like, oh, the clinician manual.
So much for hoping.
Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:42 pm
by southerndoc
palerider wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:30 pm
southerndoc wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:00 pm
I don't understand why you're such an arse to everybody on here.
I asked what others were doing and quoted you the article that is posted by ResMed, not from WebMD.
I'm certainly not an arse to "everybody" on here, just the ones that say dumb things.
I'd have *hoped* that a clinician would know where to get the more accurate info, like, oh, the clinician manual.
So much for hoping.
My specialty is emergency medicine -- not sleep medicine. I did not come here to ask for recommendations on what to do, I came to see what the consensus was that people were doing. The two are different.
Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 11:38 am
by palerider
southerndoc wrote: ↑Sat Feb 26, 2022 11:42 pm
I did not come here to ask for recommendations on what to do,I came to see what the consensus was that people were doing. The two are different.
What is the *
point* of conducting your informal poll of other's behavior?
Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:25 pm
by clownbell
@OP - In the interest of posting a diversity of views, I will offer this.
Filters are very cheap. Given that you can't see the super small particles, and assuming that even very small particles may affect your therapy, I replace once a month. If you buy them in bulk as previously mentioned, they will not send you to the poor house.
Re: Air Filter Replacement Schedule
Posted: Mon Feb 28, 2022 7:58 am
by Dog Slobber
clownbell wrote: ↑Sun Feb 27, 2022 10:25 pm
@OP - In the interest of posting a diversity of views, I will offer this.
Filters are very cheap. Given that you can't see the super small particles, and assuming that even very small particles may affect your therapy, I replace once a month. If you buy them in bulk as previously mentioned, they will not send you to the poor house.
The more often you replace your filter, the greater the number of "small particles" that will get through.
Filters do a better job of filtering when they are used.
Many posters in this thread seem to believe that filters perform better when new, they don't.