The Sink How Clean?

How clean does the sink that I wash my CPAP Equipment in have to be?

I clean it (disinfect it) with bleach and water just before I wash my mask everyday. But then again I also wash my parrots food and water dishes in that same sink also.
So in that case perhaps I'm not over cleaning it?

Oh well, what does everyone else do?

When I wash my mask, I wash it under the spicket. When I soak the mask, I use a large, plastic, salad bowl. The mask never soaks in the sink.

Sheriff

Get some cheap zip lock gallon size baggies. Squirt some soap in a baggie, add warm water (about a cup- don't fill it with water), and your mask. Zip it up and swish around. Unzip it a little, drain the soapy water out-leaving mask in the baggie. Add rinse water to the baggie. zip it up. swish around. Drain. Now you have a clean mask that never touched the sink.

I do this weekly. Daily, I use a baby wipe on the mask.

When I went on a trip, I packed a gallon size baggie, with a tiny squirt of soap in it, in my suitcase. At the hotel, I was able to use that to clean the mask without it touching the hotel sink.

Ms. OwLMooN wrote:I also wash my parrots food and water dishes in that same sink also.

You might want to look into psittacosis (parrot disease).

Birds belong in the trees, fields and brush. Should not be caged.

I have had a "clean room" built on to my house. You have to suit up in a full hazmat and go through the sterilization chamber before you can enter the room. The CPAP things have been put into sealed air tight bags. I then take them over to a lab technician (who works with NASA and the family fun place Jurassic World) he takes it over from there. At the end of the day I have fresh clean equipment from the technician sitting outside the chamber in sealed bags. It has worked out well so far. Wasn't a bad 2.5 billion dollar investment I don't think.

Seriously though I usually just wash the sink with soap and water a little prior to using it. I don't take a lot of time. Just a little. The sink is pretty clean.

Maybe just keep a little plastic tub handy to wash your stuff in (buy it small enough to fit in your sink to make it handy). I think it would be kind of tedious to use bleach or chlorine powder cleanser on the sink every single day. Obviously, if you handle bleach or chlorine powder you should be wearing rubber gloves, so you'd have to dig those out too. If you use your little plastic tub only for CPAP it shouldn't ever really need a bleaching out or whatever.

Sheriff Buford wrote:When I wash my mask, I wash it under the spicket. When I soak the mask, I use a large, plastic, salad bowl. The mask never soaks in the sink.

Sheriff

+1

Ms. OwLMooN wrote:How clean does the sink that I wash my CPAP Equipment in have to be?

I clean it (disinfect it) with bleach and water just before I wash my mask everyday. But then again I also wash my parrots food and water dishes in that same sink also.
So in that case perhaps I'm not over cleaning it?

Oh well, what does everyone else do?

If I was cleaning my mask in a sink used to clean parrot supplies, I would use bleach too.

Get a handy plastic container to use for only your Cpap stuff, than you don't have to bleach your sinks so often

I've always used some plastic coffee cans ( Folger's ). Squirt a little Dawn dishwashing liquid in it and fill with hot water.
Let it sit for awhile and then go over the seals/cushions by hand and then dump, rinse.......squeeze the headgear to get the soap out......then refill with more hot water to soak any remaining soap out. Then, after I think I've got it clean, I refill with COLD water and let it soak for awhile longer. Seems to add a little "spring" back into the cushions. Then, I dry it with a flour sack dish towel......squeeze the water out of the headgear and hang the headgear and strap covers on a clothes hanger to air dry.


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There is an old saying "dirty as a sink", as long as you have a drain it is not clean. I use the base of a rectangular food storage container(food safe) in my sink.. It is my go to cpap equipment pan. I use warm water with no soaking, a mild dish soap, swish around and rinse with fresh and do a dip in mild vinegar solution. Not very regularly unless I have a cold and then often just the mask to chase off any boogermen.

Islandwoman wrote:There is an old saying "dirty as a sink", as long as you have a drain it is not clean.

Good point, I never quite thought of it like that. There is a connection and no drain seal is perfect.

Islandwoman wrote: Not very regularly unless I have a cold and then often just the mask to chase off any boogermen.

Islandwoman, I hope you mean bogeymen... yikes, I never want to run into a real boogerman. That's the stuff of nightmares Cute hedgehog BTW.

Birds may belong in trees, but not above my car, thank you!

Ms. OwLMooN wrote:How clean does the sink that I wash my CPAP Equipment in have to be?

I clean it (disinfect it) with bleach and water just before I wash my mask everyday. But then again I also wash my parrots food and water dishes in that same sink also.
So in that case perhaps I'm not over cleaning it?

Oh well, what does everyone else do?

If the sink is clean enough to wash your dinner dishes and eat from them later, clean enough for your cpap stuff. My PA recommended daily cleanings during cold/flu season, but if I wanted to otherwise go with weekly, they haven't really seen any problems from that. So, I rinse my nose pillow daily, but wash everything weekly. I've been doing my brother's stuff for 8 years weekly (mask/hose). However, sometimes the soaking leaves an after-odor of Dawn. He prefers vinegar as an after odor, so sometimes I'll go that extra mile and use water and vinegar instead. Some on here recommended Baby Wash. Might try that.

Yes, I am perfectly aware that some people never wash their hoses and such, but I don't recommend such choices to newbies. You can get sick from dirty equipment and everybody's environment is different.

Sir NoddinOff wrote:Maybe just keep a little plastic tub handy to wash your stuff in (buy it small enough to fit in your sink to make it handy). I think it would be kind of tedious to use bleach or chlorine powder cleanser on the sink every single day. Obviously, if you handle bleach or chlorine powder you should be wearing rubber gloves, so you'd have to dig those out too. If you use your little plastic tub only for CPAP it shouldn't ever really need a bleaching out or whatever.

I was just thinking about getting a small tub for my cpap cleaning!