Posted by uncleross on December 16, 2008 at 07:46:25:In Reply to: infection/cleaning posted by adjusted on November 23, 2008 at 20:17:47:
I started my CPAP treatment about six weeks ago and the first thing I noticed was chest irritation. That morphed into a nasty chest infection which I am now treating. I've started cleaning my mask daily - I was doing it every other day and treating with vinegar water, but I really think that my problem is the irritation from the forced air. The bacteria are probably always around. I don't think that the CPAP was introducing infection, per. se. but that's hard to know.