Does anyone here have experience with hypoallergenic CPAP masks? My last two soft latex masks give me gin blossoms that would make Ted Kennedy blush! What should I be looking for?
Moderating
Since this is seeking personal experiences, let’s move this to IMHO (from FQ).
Any factual information regarding the masks is of course still welcome.
I don’t have any experience with hypoallergenic masks, so I can’t help you there, but have you talked to your doctor or your CPAP provider? It looks like there are a lot of hypoallergenic options out there. They probably deal with this issue all the time and might have specific masks that they recommend.
I’m an American living in Korea, which complicates things. I mentioned the problem to my internist who unhelpfully replied (through a translator) “So what you’re saying is, it irritates your skin.” When I get some time off next month, I plan to find either a dermatologist or ENT in a different, larger city, but if I can get some solid info from someone else who has had this issue, I can ask better, to-the-point questions. My experience has been, no one in Korea sells CPAP equipment and if I have to do this through Amazon again, I don’t want to fly blind.