Originally Posted by
Cecelia363
OMG! Liberty med people told me not to wash my heated hose! only wash the nose pillows and harness! replace them and the filter very 2 months. ....
I'm SO surprised you were told NOT to wash your hose...there are even special l-o-n-g brushes sold to do just this! My heavens, I clean mine with a brush every 2-3 days and can definitely tell the difference with the smell -- less 'moldy'/musty -- when it's been cleaned.
For the longest time I didn't realize I could remove the lid of the water chamber (it's really hard to do) to clean it and was just filling it with hot soapy water and rinsing.....until the night I couldn't stand not "really cleaning" it even one more night. I got that lid off and felt the inside of the chamber and realized it was SLIMY from not being properly cleaned, I nearly died of being grossed out!!!
Now that thing gets properly scrubbed at least once a week as well. No matter how often these things are replaced!
I'd rather sleep without my CPAP (which could literally kill me - and nearly did in the hospital when they failed to apply it in recovery following hip replacement surgery in 2011 - because I have severe OSA) rather than risk the mold factor going up my nose and into my lungs ever again!!! I am obsessive about it now.
Jan in VA