Re: Mold and cpap machines

[Guest guest]

Pink Flowers,

You are so very right!!! My c-pap is 5 years old. About 3 months

ago, I smelled a very musty odor when I turned it on. I kept the

filter changed from month to month but one thing I did not know,

there is an internal filter. The stupid respitory therapist said for

me to spray frebreeze into it! I about had a fit! As a trained

respitory (SP?) therapist, he should have known better than to tell

someone this with sleep apnea, COPD and as well as chronic allergies

to use freebreeze. I insisted they do something about it. I have not

gotten my original c-pap machine back yet. Those things need to have

the internal filter cleaned as well!

>

> I have a friend with a cpap machine who ended up with fungus in her

lungs

> because she did not keep her cpap machine clean. It was one of

the very

> early ones and was very old.

>

> __________________________________________________

>

[Guest guest]

You guys PLEASE be careful! My mother had COPD, Lung Cancer, and then came down

with aspergiules in her lounge. It was awful. Ironically last night as my

fiance and i packed up we are leaving out home and moving due to health problems

from mold. We found some of my mom's medical records from right before she

passed away. It was showing that she was having allergic reaction to unknown

reason. She started getting really loopy and going into comas, docs said it was

time for hospice and she came home went into another " coma " and died no wheezing

nothing. She freaked out about a month before she passed demanded her house to

be tested for mold in the air paid 1000 dollars. We all thought that it was just

her trying to find another reason . I tell you this much my Mom went from a

functioning women to a vegetable over a period of a few months yet the cancer

had only shrunk she was in good health otherwise and her lung function still

appeared good.i dont know anything just be

careful.

sea <jackiebreeze@...> wrote:

Pink Flowers,

You are so very right!!! My c-pap is 5 years old. About 3 months

ago, I smelled a very musty odor when I turned it on. I kept the

filter changed from month to month but one thing I did not know,

there is an internal filter. The stupid respitory therapist said for

me to spray frebreeze into it! I about had a fit! As a trained

respitory (SP?) therapist, he should have known better than to tell

someone this with sleep apnea, COPD and as well as chronic allergies

to use freebreeze. I insisted they do something about it. I have not

gotten my original c-pap machine back yet. Those things need to have

the internal filter cleaned as well!

>

> I have a friend with a cpap machine who ended up with fungus in her

lungs

> because she did not keep her cpap machine clean. It was one of

the very

> early ones and was very old.

>

> __________________________________________________

>

[Guest guest]

What is a COPD? Rhonda

> >

> > I have a friend with a cpap machine who ended up with fungus in

her

> lungs

> > because she did not keep her cpap machine clean. It was one of

> the very

> > early ones and was very old.

> >

> > __________________________________________________

> >

[Guest guest]

I meant what is cpac machines?

> >

> > I have a friend with a cpap machine who ended up with fungus in

her

> lungs

> > because she did not keep her cpap machine clean. It was one of

> the very

> > early ones and was very old.

> >

> > __________________________________________________

> >

[Guest guest]

Mia and others,

Indeed it is quite true that Cpap machines and equipment can get infested

with mold and cause health symptoms. Care is of the uptmost importance,

particularly if humidifiers are used.

The masks and hoses can get infested with mold. I cultured aureobasidium

from one mask where the mold was growing in a black band between the soft

gasket and the plastic mask. Another hose had mold growing in the rubber

fitting.

I have even found dust mites infesting the headgwear. So be sure to wash the

masks, hoses and headgear regularly as the manufacturers suggest.

Use the best filter material you can find for the intake and never leave

water in the humidifier during the day. Dry the reservoir out after each

use. Disinfect periodically.

BTW KC, thanks for the kind words.

C. May, M.A., CIAQP

May Indoor Air Investigations LLC

1522 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02139

617-354-1055

www.mayindoorair.com

www.myhouseiskillingme.com

Re: Mold and cpap machines

Posted by: " sea " jackiebreeze@... seabrz29621

>Date: Mon Jan 8, 2007 8:55 am ((PST))

>Pink Flowers,

>>ago, I smelled a very musty odor when I turned it on. I kept the

>filter changed from month to month but one thing I did not know,

>there is an internal filter. The stupid respitory therapist said for

>me to spray frebreeze into it! I about had a fit! As a trained

[Guest guest]

Jeff,

Thanks for this information. I just forwarded it to several of my

neighbors that use these machines. I've even thought about getting

one for my wife, from what I have heard several in our condition it

has helped tremendously. Boy, you can never be too careful. They are

serious when they say this stuff is everywhere. I guess bottomline,

if you have moisture, you can have mold.

Thanks,

KC

>

> Mia and others,

>

> Indeed it is quite true that Cpap machines and equipment can get

infested

> with mold and cause health symptoms. Care is of the uptmost

importance,

> particularly if humidifiers are used.

>

> The masks and hoses can get infested with mold. I cultured

aureobasidium

> from one mask where the mold was growing in a black band between

the soft

> gasket and the plastic mask. Another hose had mold growing in the

rubber

> fitting.

>

> I have even found dust mites infesting the headgwear. So be sure

to wash the

> masks, hoses and headgear regularly as the manufacturers suggest.

>

> Use the best filter material you can find for the intake and never

leave

> water in the humidifier during the day. Dry the reservoir out

after each

> use. Disinfect periodically.

>

> BTW KC, thanks for the kind words.

>

> C. May, M.A., CIAQP

> May Indoor Air Investigations LLC

> 1522 Cambridge Street

> Cambridge, MA 02139

> 617-354-1055

> www.mayindoorair.com

> www.myhouseiskillingme.com

>

> Re: Mold and cpap machines

> Posted by: " sea " jackiebreeze@... seabrz29621

> >Date: Mon Jan 8, 2007 8:55 am ((PST))

>

> >Pink Flowers,

> >>ago, I smelled a very musty odor when I turned it on. I kept the

> >filter changed from month to month but one thing I did not know,

> >there is an internal filter. The stupid respitory therapist said

for

> >me to spray frebreeze into it! I about had a fit! As a trained

>

[Guest guest]

Hi Jeff,

Thank you for this interesting information about the cpap equipment. I was

just started on this treatment and I was already concerned about keeping the

mask and hoses free from mold. I have been told that I need a cool humidifier to

accompany the air and it makes me very nervous.

I was told that I shouldn't disinfect the equipment - I asked if I could

rinse it with vinegar and water and they thought that would be ok. I will be

watching (and sniffing!) the equipment to try and make sure that it stays safe

for me.

Thank you again,