Ever get bugs in your tube?

I'm just curious - anyone ever find bug in their tube? It seems like it would be highly unlikely but I'm curious if it ever happens.

I found a dead silverfish in my tank once.

Probably one of Lazers

Not I, but I remember a couple of people here have reported creatures in their XPAP equipment. Since then, I'm careful to check, and make sure my mask is hanging on its designated hook, well off the floor when I'm not wearing it.

I'm sure I've ingested/inhaled my quota of small creatures over the years, but certainly not for lack of trying to avoid this.

Cheers,
xenablue

bugs can go everywhere. this is a true, serious story, so please, no smart axx remarks.

at a former residence, one morning i took a puff from my symbicort inhaler. it felt strange like it hit the back of my throat rather than acting like a spray. i coughed it out in the sink and it was a little tiny spider that did bite me on the tongue on the way out. i always keep the covers on my stuff so i guess he went in thru the crack between the body of the inhaler and the medication container. the way it worked, he had to be sitting right on the tip of the medication container to get propelled out.

i reported this to my doctor and i got to report it to the astra-zeneca rep who just happened to be visiting the office when i was there.

if you have a bug problem, keep your stuff covered. keep inhalers in a ziploc. i know this sounds hilarious, but i want to assure you it was very serious and scary when it happened.

I've been nagging my hubby to build a simple hose dryer to hang on the wall.
--a small computer fan, power supply, timer, and plastic case/hose linkage. (3-d printed)
Old houses have icky critters; wet hoses attract them.

Nope. Bugs are everywhere and can get into anything. If you live further south in the US or somewhere tropical I'm sure your bug woes are worse than mine are in Michigan, even during the summer. Even then I don't see too many critters in my house. The occassional small non-poisonous spider or fly but my Chihuahua makes short work of those

balor123 wrote:I'm just curious - anyone ever find bug in their tube? It seems like it would be highly unlikely but I'm curious if it ever happens.

Nope but i live in Arizona and am completely open to the fact that a scorpion could find its way into my hose, especially given the fact that they can find their way between pages of a book.

Some things i have done

1) in the A.M disconnect hose and store in a zip lock baggy. I stopped this as the hose does not get to dry out.
2) get two hoses and rotate them, letting one dry and then check it and store it and using the previously stored hose out of zip lock.
3) leave the hose connected, hang end over bed head and use a scorpion UV flashlight to check the hose before use. My wife thinks its a good idea to check around this bed with this anyway.

I have a bug in my signature.

I'm not very good about some things. This happens to be one of them. I try to keep my equipment clean and inspected. Cause... if I ever inhaled a spider or anything like it I'd no longer have the need for my machine!

ems wrote:I'm not very good about some things. This happens to be one of them. I try to keep my equipment clean and inspected. Cause... if I ever inhaled a spider or anything like it I'd no longer have the need for my machine!

"She swallowed the spider to catch the fly...."



-tino

chunkyfrog wrote:I've been nagging my hubby to build a simple hose dryer to hang on the wall.
--a small computer fan, power supply, timer, and plastic case/hose linkage. (3-d printed)
Old houses have icky critters; wet hoses attract them.

Chunkyfrog - I have a 3M Commander cable organizer on the side of my headboard. The bed is an antique, so I don't want to damage the thing. The Commander uses that non-damaging sticky stuff, so it' perfect, stays stuck and is the perfect size for our tubing whether it's slimline or regular. I made a fleece sleeve about a foot long to cover the hose where it was smacking against the headboard every time I moved.

For my mask I have a largish stainless stell "S" hook on the Commander. It's simple, doesn't look funky as it's all together with the tubing and keeps my mask far away from bug-level.

I even have spare Commanders for when I go on vacation so I can suspend my hose no matter where I'm sleeping. Even have one in our camper!

Oh, and we have an old house also - get those prehistoric house millipedes about 6 inches long - makes me queasy just typing about them!

Cheers,
xena

Some where there is a disgusting bug thread on this forum and I can't find it and it appears every now and then to gross every one out. Maybe some one will remember it.

I made a "sock" out of a fine mesh material that I put over the open end of my tube every morning. Squid..I remember the thread it was written by a poster called "mr earwig"... I remember the name 'cusse I HATE those things

balor123 wrote:I'm just curious - anyone ever find bug in their tube? It seems like it would be highly unlikely but I'm curious if it ever happens.

Some things you should not ask.

My Obstructive Sleep Apnea (OSA) was not found by a doctor – no – back in 2003 they missed the markers of OSA 999 out of 1000 times. So after years of them missing it finally a shelter bunk mate told me what I had and gave me what I needed to mark for the doctor so – after waiting an additional six months for the appointment with the pulmonologist and two more for the sleep study and three weeks for the machine – I finally had treatment!

So I was enabled to re-train as a cook and build a new carrier (for over 20 years I enjoyed being a Broadcast Technician – OSA took that from me).

But then in 2005 a burglar/murder of 1997 released in 2005 decided to make his way back to the concrete Mama by stabbing me five times, beating up my eye, and taking my wallet. The police took the rest of what I had that night for evidence, my daughter was able to dress my wounds (you have to stuff them every 12 hours) but near the time of the anniversary of the attack it was back to the ER and then eventually to shelter.

The only shelter that I could find with a wall outlet for my CPAP and indeed especially the bunk near that outlet was seriously infested with bed bugs. Bed bugs like warm places. So one night I turned on the machine and . . . well . . . thinking of the smell of that fan ground up bed bug still makes me queeze.

The thing I am most glad about in all of this regarding OSA is that the Post Tramatic Stress issues it invoked has enabled me to understand the CO2 maintenance issues involved with using CPAP and so I hope to by that knowledge enable others My way would have been much easier had I understood how stress drives up breathing – reduces CO2 and so drives a whole host of harm to the body. The constant pressure of CPAP simply makes that worse. Taking care of the stress (in my case re-establish purpose and work on trust (and move to a crime quiet city)), and eucapnic breathing retraining – well – had I started these right away I would be much further along than I am today.

But oh my, you never forget a smell!!