How often do you change your nasal pillow?

Lizistired · Post by **Lizistired** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 8:28 am

I change them when they become uncomfortable or don't seal well. How often that is varies with the pillows. Different lots I guess.

JeffL · Post by **JeffL** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:08 am

archangle wrote:I really wish some enterprising Chinese entrepreneur would start bootlegging CPAP mask parts. There's no excuse for not being able to get a dozen pillows for $30, including shipping.

But a year later, you'd hear reports about them having a high asbestos content

archangle · Post by **archangle** » Tue Oct 16, 2012 10:17 am

JeffL wrote:
archangle wrote:I really wish some enterprising Chinese entrepreneur would start bootlegging CPAP mask parts. There's no excuse for not being able to get a dozen pillows for $30, including shipping.
But a year later, you'd hear reports about them having a high asbestos content

Hogwash. There have been a few, highly publicized incidents of contaminated stuff from China, but it's really rare.

king_alvaro · Post by **king_alvaro** » Fri Nov 16, 2012 9:57 pm

I tried the secret that other members told me about making the pillow last longer. Originally my pillows were only lasting about 1 month in average, due to leak issues. But ever since I soak them with dish soap for hours. I notice a huge difference. I soak them once every week, then I rinse them in clean water because of the strong odor dish soap leaves. Sometimes I soak them with clean water for another couple hours to get rid of the odor of soap.

It has been 2 months and I am still using the same pillows. The seal is great. Thanks to members here I can revive pillow indefinitely. Just kidding, probably I will keep them until they disintegrate. I am happy because I wont have to visit the DME as often, since I pay my supplies out of pocket.

You people here in this forum that are constantly purchasing pillows, I urge you to try this out. It did worked for me.

BudSky · Post by **BudSky** » Sat Nov 17, 2012 4:30 am

archangle wrote:
JeffL wrote:
archangle wrote:I really wish some enterprising Chinese entrepreneur would start bootlegging CPAP mask parts. There's no excuse for not being able to get a dozen pillows for $30, including shipping.
But a year later, you'd hear reports about them having a high asbestos content
Hogwash. There have been a few, highly publicized incidents of contaminated stuff from China, but it's really rare.

A few? Really rare? There have been a huge number of reports of contaminated items from China.
40 people killed by bad heparin. 200 pets killed by bad dog food. 300,000 infants sickened and 6 killed by melamine in their formula.
Personally I will not eat ANY food item from there.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142 ... ml#slide/1
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/201 ... ?ref=china
http://www.spiegel.de/international/wor ... 13688.html

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