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@tinaesims Sorry for the delay - I just found this message. I use boiled water at home, we store the cleaned and air-dried devices in a ziploc bag, and I occasionally do an alcohol soak on the nebulizer parts. I am not convinced that household vinegar (3-5%) is sufficiently strong to kill MAC/NTM based on a few studies I have read, so I prefer alcohol. I have not found 10% acetic acid to be readily available to me like alcohol is. Here is a link I found about mycobacteria growth and the effectiveness of alcohol as a disinfecctant: https://www.atsjournals.org/doi/full/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201301-013FR.

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I clean with boiled water and soap after every use and clean with vinegar on Sunday’s. I do this with everything. If I have a full dishwasher load I put it in a basket on the top. Do you clean that much?

@tinaesims I contacted an industrial chemist and got a high % vinegar and just dilute it down to 10% for shower heads etc.