Rainout

[Riparian]

I've got a nice Resmed cover for my main tube but what about the smaller tube to the mask? Last winter I tried wrapping an old stocking round it but it didn't really work. Has anyone any good ideas?

[Grumpy]

small hose cover

Have a look at

http://hope2sleep.co.uk/catalogue/product_info.php?cPath=21&products_id=31

[daveuk]

Rainout

I also bought the Resmed hose cover but found it completely ineffective.
While looking for alternative solutions, I found a few options and decided to try the cheapest first, as if that worked, the more expensive options would be sure to work.
1) I bought a reptile vivarium heating wire. 4 metres, 15 watts. £18. This is basically a very flexible length of cable that becomes just slightly warm in operation. Laid that along both sides of the Resmed tubing doubled back on itself, inside the Resmed cover, which holds it in place. I connected via a RCD circuit breaker plug for safety, as its mains voltage. £12.99 at Maplins or DIY stores. It works very well, even when the short mask tube is not insulated.

2) There's a universal CPAP heated hose available from Australia, cost £90, and you need to buy a UK power supply, around £15. Seems expensive for what it is, and may not last any longer than a standard hose.

3) Several of the latest top end CPAP machines have a thermostatic/moisture sensing heated hose option. When my machine needs replacing I'll buy one of those, having now convinced myself that a heated hose actually works.

[Barely Awake]

Not entirely satisfactory but I used some off cuts from a fleece blanket taped round the smaller hose using velcro straps that were a few pounds for a dozen from a DIY market stall. The main problem is that fleece only seems to be efficient when it hasn't been washed dozens of times. Have taken to hanging the hose in its fleecy cover inside the airing cupboard every day in winter and take it out just before going to bed.

[pavarottiman]

Rain out.

Hi, I have for the last 3 months been testing out my idea for preventing rain out and gurgling water in the hose.
I have the CPAP/APAP on a table about mattress height, the hose I slide under my pillow in a coil, then take the mask end out from under the pillow to the top to connect to my mask, the hose is kept nice and warm preventing the moisture in the air from condensing, I sleep in a room with the heating off at night so it does get fairly cold at night. Well there you go, it works fine for me and costs nowt to give it a try.
Best of luck.
Alex.

[James @ Intus]

2) There's a universal CPAP heated hose available from Australia, cost £90, and you need to buy a UK power supply, around £15. Seems expensive for what it is, and may not last any longer than a standard hose.

There is now also a Europe-engineered universal heated hose which retails at a lot lower price than that. More info here:

http://www.eu-pap.co.uk/hybernite-heated-breathing-tube.html

And here:

http://blog.cpap.co.uk/2011/05/universal-heated-hose-prevents-cpap-humidifier-rainout

And here:

http://forums.cpap.co.uk/showthread.php?t=1962

Ensuring the warm moist air doesn't cool down between the humidifier and the mask is indeed the best way of avoiding CPAP rainout.