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Just heard from a sleep tech that her sleep center, located within a  highly prestigious hospital in one of America's largest and most affluent metropolitan centers, fills patients humidifiers with tap water on CPAP titrations.  furthermore, a 7 year-old child contracted Legionnaires Disease and died from being titrated with a CPAP humidifier filled with tap water.

Make sure you insist on distilled or reverse osmosis/ purified bottled water for your CPAP titrations in the sleep center.  The life you save may be your own.

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Clare said:

Mike: I did not know you could contract Legionnaires from tap water? Was it possibly due to mold that grew over time from a humidifier that was not ever cleaned, and plus the Lab used tap water rather than a more acidic water like distilled, or reverse osmosis water?

 "rather than a more acidic water like distilled, or reverse osmosis water?"

If you think that distilled water is acidic, you are very ill informed.

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