What are some tips for handling oxygen tubing?
I am fairly active and use 100ft of tubing so I can walk freely around my home. However, it constantly kinks and I spend a lot of time smoothing out the tubing. Once kinked, it's almost impossible to stop it from kinking in the same spot all the time. I did come up with a possible solution: I cut a straw lengthwise and wrapped a portion of it around the tubing. It's working! I also use a POC. I can no longer cart it around, so use a walker, primarily to hold that POC. The tubing is so short, so I added 25 ft. It gets tangled up a lot! I'd like to know how other folks manage activities while on oxygen. I know that at some point I won't be able to be active, but for now, I can be. I am nearly 83.
What a clever solution,
! I hope you get some input from others in the community. In the meantime, here is another forum wih some comments you might find helpful: https://copd.net/stories/oxygen-tubing.
Wishing you the best. - Lori (Team Member)Thank you, Lori. This gal was having similar issues with her tubing, but she uses a tank of some kind, putting in her as she walks around the house. Clever, but a walker wouldn't work in my home. I hope others respond. The plastic straws over the kinked tubing is working perfectly! PS: First time I've been called, Old Timer. That was sweet, thank you. I do like to think of myself as being an early ancient -- at 85 I'll enter the middle-aged ancient stage, and a treasured, much-loved dinosaur when I enter my 90s!!!
