How Should I Clean My Nebulizer and Acapella Device

Where do you buy your 3% saline?

Sue,
What exact nebulizer do you use now in 2025. The one I got recently melted as soon as it hit the boiling water, so a silicone thing in the bottom of the pot wouldn’t have helped. (Sorry to ask because I’m sure you’ve already answered this before)

Amazon Pharmacy.

Thank you

Boil after each use with distilled water for 10 minutes and add one minute for each 1000 feet of elevation. Then dry in a baby bottle sterilizer.

A generic reusable one from the local hospital supply company. Put the equipment in the water and slowly bring it to any boil, reduce heat to just bubbling for 10 minutes, turn off the water and let it cool.
Disposable nebulizers meant for one time or single patient use cannot be boiled- that's why I buy from medical supplier and not Amazon or ebay. If you don't have a local supplier try nebology.com o just nebulizer- you can call and ask them which can be boiled.

Thanks so much! ❤️

I bought a baby bottle sterilizer. Won't that work for cleaning my nebulizer and the Acapella, if I remove the flapper in the Acapella and do that by hand? I ran this by AI and that was suggested.

I don't trust it to cleaning, just drying. You can boil the Acapella along with neb cups.

Please don't "run things by AI." At ths point it is NOT transparent and we do not know the source or reliability of any information provided.

Instead use Google or scholar.google.com and enter your search parameters, then read information from reliablsources like NIH, NJH, Mayo, NTMir.org and others.

Proper steps: Wash in soapy water and rinse (tap water is fine.) Sterilize by boiling in distilled water or a baby bottle sterilizer for 10 minutes. No need to pre-boil any of the water you are using, the sterilization process kills the germs. Done!