Disinfecting equip... MRSA?

Lizistired,

see:
http: (slash slash) www (dot) rawstory (dot)com/rs/2013/10/25/associate-director-at-centers-for-disease-control-weve-reached-the-end-of-antibiotics-period/

Given the information in the link provided I think your brothers level of concern about MRSAs is completely justified. I also think this thread is loaded with potentially dangerous neomedical possibly incorrect advice about MRSAs by anonymous posters who haven't demonstrated that they are medically qualified to advise us. For example the notion that we ALL carry 10's of thousands of bacteria resistant to multiple antibiotics in our Noses. Or that Antibacterial resistant bacteria have a two week life span on surfaces exposed to air and that surfaces contaminated by antibiotic resistant bacteria can be decontaminated with one homemade cleaning method or another. Google Biofilms and learn how resistant to eradication Bacteria can be.

There is a reason that modern hospitals always dispose of (never reuse) everything that they possible can that has been exposed to bodily fluids of patients with MRSAs in the Infectious Disease wards as (Bio) Hazardous Waste.

My advice is that if you decide let your brother use your back-up equipment is to make it a one way trip and simply give it to him as a gift (with new unused and presumably sterile hose and mask).

Note: I am not claiming any medical expertise nor am I clean freak bacteriaphobe, far from it, but i am cognizant of the Associate Director at the Centers for Disease Control's subtext. Somethings just aren't meant for sharing, spouses, tooth brushes, hunting dogs, fishing spots, ....... and CPAP gear.

Honest to Goodness I don't even know what to think. This cleaning issue keeps recurring. It's admirable wanting to protect anyone from harmful infections, etc., but the manufacturer's instructions are clear. No harsh cleaning chemicals other than those specifically approved by the manufacturer, such as those few used in sleep labs. Anything else will speed the degradation of the plastics.

I don't know whether the manufacturers are at fault for not putting warnings on the items themselves, or its the fact a lot of folks simply don't bother reading the product guides and make up their own cleaning techniques as they see fit.

Perhaps the manufacturers need to change the products to simply save us from our own ignorance.