CPAP Cleaners PiRep

[Crashnburn]

The typical CPAP cleaner uses Ozone to "clean" your CPAP equipment. If it's strong enough to actually clean the machine, the Ozone levels are hazardous. Otherwise you're wasting your money.

I had a So-Clean for less than a month, until it went toes-up. About all I could tell it did was make my canula smell bad. I did get my money back, less shipping.

A few months ago I found a cleaner that uses light, namely UV-C. It can't sterilize everything at once, but it will sterilize everything, a piece or two at a time. It's made by Lumin, and I found it on Amazon.
(I have no direct interest in either company.)

After the first time I used it, I could smell a lot of dead micro-organisms. The smell goes away after a few nights, and returns whenever I use it. My sinuses are a lot less clogged in the AMs since I started using it.

 

[3393RP]

The So Clean, as you noted, is nothing more than than an oxygen concentrator and ionizer. It probably does an OK job of sterilization, and I supplement it with Q-tips and 70% isopropyl alcohol.

My barber has an ancient UV-C sterilizer. It looks like a small toaster oven with no door. His scissors and clipper heads are placed inside, and presumably become sterile at some point.

 

[tsts4]

I clean my hose, mask, head gear, and nose pillow with a no-rinse sanitizer I use for beer brewing called Star-San. I always have a quantity on-hand so every so often I dunk my gear in my Star-San bucket for 2 mins (basically 1 oz of Star-san and roughly 3.5-4gal of water which creates a low pH solution).