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Cleaning and Maintaining Your CPAP Machine

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To ensure best use practices of your personal CPAP machine, it's good to make sure that everything is kept clean before every night's use. Taking proper care of your CPAP equipment will guarantee that you will not get sick from using the machine and breathing in potentially harmful particles at night. These particles can range from minimally harmful irritants that can make you congested or give you a cough upon waking, to more harmful viruses that can get you sick for days. No one wants to experience an uncomfortable night's rest, let alone get sick from something that is supposed to be helping improve their health. That would be counter-productive and potentially even life-threatening, especially if the patient has immune system issues as it stands. Proper CPAP Maintenance Unfortunately, not everyone has the ability to take time or even the know-how to maintain their machine on their own. If you have a designated caretaker, they should already be aware or be made...
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The Lumin Bullet and the Importance of an Effective Sanitation Method Lumin’s new product, the Bullet, is a tool meant for use alongside their main CPAP cleaner.  The CPAP cleaner’s primary purpose is to clean the mask and humidifier, while the Bullet takes care of the tubing.  While both devices use the same cleaning technique, UV lighting, the Bullet has an extra measure to ensure you get the cleanest results. The additional action is a small magnetic tool that collects the bigger pockets of pathogens while the light gets into the small crevasses for a deeper clean. Making sure your CPAP equipment stays bacteria-free is just as important as the purpose it serves. Bacteria The Lumin and the Lumin Bullet have one key thing in common. They both deal with the pests we can’t even see, bacteria. Germs hide everywhere! It doesn’t matter if you sanitize a surface two times or ten times, there will always be that one that clings on no matter what. While the...