Has anyone gotten a sinus or eye infection from using a nebulizer that wasn’t propertly cleaned?
I've been nebulizing 7% saline once daily using a PARI Vios with a Sprint reusable nebulizer cup. To clean the nebulizer, I alternate between soaking the cup pieces in hot water and dish soap on one day and boiling them for 5 minutes the next day. I recently noticed that the hose tube gets moisture sometimes that it never did before. Now I sometimes run the Vios without the cup after nebulizing to get rid of the moisture in the tube, but sometimes I forget to check. I also have been using the same cup for more than 4 months because I only nebulize once a day. Two days ago, sometime after nebulizing and a shower, my face around my left eye turned red and itchy and there was a puffy area near, but not adjacent to, my eye. I’m trying to figure out if it has anything to do with my nebulizing. I’ve read that cellulitis can come from a bacterial sinus infection.
I’m panicking because my ID doctor retired and I’ve not yet met my new one, I don’t want to go to urgent care because I don’t believe they will have the necessary background, and I don’t have an ophthalmologist to go to.