Phthalates in oxygen concentrator system

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Most tubing used for oxygen delivery is Tygon brand or similar. It is polyvinyl

chloride (PVC) made soft and flexible with the plasticizer di-2-ethylhexyl

phthalate. When you carry an oxygen tank, you use a few feet of tubing. On a

home concentrator, you are often tethered to the concentrator with 20 feet or

more of tubing so you can move around the house. The longer the tubing, the more

phthalate exposure. The exposure is high with brand new tubing, and again when

the tubing is very old and its stabilizers break down. If you are sensitive to

phthalate, you can possibly find a non-PVC tubing free of phthalates, but it

will probably not be as flexible or easy to use.

I have a couple Questions If I May, 1st About Oxygen Therapy,2nd Ant

Posted by: " nne " Roxygardens@... roxygardens

Date: Sat Jan 15, 2011 2:26 pm ((PST))

As for the Oxygen question I mentioned before in a previous post

that I suffer from chronic face and head pain. My current Intergrative

doc and I thought I should try some oxygen therapy at night low dose

throughtout the night. Company I rented from said it would be much to much $$

unless I rented a ox concentrator so I did. It seemed to help

somewhat but not completely. I decided the rental was too much per month

so with Chrimas $ bought an good but not tooexpensive one and read warning

labels stating " Contains Phthalates " .