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If you use a CPAP with a humidifier, it’s clearly advised you use distilled water. However, when you clean one, how are you supposed to clean the tubing. Using
by cebert 3y ago
If you use a CPAP with a humidifier, it’s clearly advised you use distilled water. However, when you clean one, how are you supposed to clean the tubing. Using distilled water would be both expensive and difficult.
- seized 3y agoThe hottest tape water you have and then vinegar is what I was told (and use). I use cleaning vinegar specifically.
- dreamcompiler 3y agoA CPAP humidifier is a distiller. You could use muddy swamp water in it and the vapor that goes into your lungs would still be pristine. However, that would make the machine prone to bacterial and scale buildup, and hard to clean. Ease of cleaning is the real reason to use only distilled water in CPAP machines.
- bordakt 3y agoYou should use distilled water to avoid volatiles in tap water, like chlorine.
- bitshiftfaced 3y agoI believe that may be due to scale build up. Can microorganisms survive vaporization?