Connecting Water Bottles to Oxygen Tanks: A Guide for Users

People with heart and lung problems often need supplementary oxygen, since they sometimes cannot breathe it in on their own. Cells carry that oxygen throughout the body, feeding every system and organ. When blood oxygen gets too low, cells cannot function and repair themselves. This affects your entire body from your brain to your heart to your skin. Oxygen tanks add oxygen back into your bloodstream through masks, tents or cannula. Oxygen tends to dry your nose, mouth and throat, so it's important to keep it humidified with water, which must be hooked up to the oxygen tank.

Things You'll Need

• Oxygen tank
• Water bottle

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Instructions

• 1

  Discard water below the water bottle's fill line by disconnecting it from the oxygen tubing.

• 2

  Refill bottle with distilled or sterile water.

• 3

  Hold the water bottle from the bottom when hooking it back to the oxygen tank. Attach the water bottle to the green-threaded nipple adapter connecting it to the oxygen concentrator. Make sure it is tight so it doesn't leak.

• 4

  Reset the flow meter according to physician's instructions.