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So as to tolerate the cannula CAPAX well, follow these advice carefully.
The cannula is a medical prosthesis, which aims at helping you. Like for all the other prosthesis, it is necessary for your organism to get accustomed to this foreign body. This is the case of all the systems that serve to compensate a deficit, such as glasses, contact lenses, dental, hearing aids, or other prosthesis.
So a period of adaptation is unavoidable, but it always ends in satisfactory tolerance. The period approximately spans 15 days to 3 weeks.
Nauseous reflexes represent the main difficulty to tolerate the cannula. They are variable according to the persons.
Some people will be able to place the cannula in their mouths without severe discomfort. Other people will have a reflex as soon as the tube touches their tongues.
As a result, addiction will have to take place progressively, according to the cases.
Methods to get used to keeping the cannula
- On the first time, do not expect to sleep with the cannula. You may not bear it.
- It is necessary for your throat to get accustomed to this foreign body gradually.
- Test it first during the day. Introduce gently only the end of the tube of the cannula into the mouth and keeping it some seconds at the beginning, then longer and longer. Keep it that way, suck it and swallow the saliva to get used to it.
- Get accustomed to the tube little by little; sink it in the throat each time deeper. Do not insist too much the first times. Often renew these brief tests during the day. If the reflexes are strong, do not plunge the tube too far into the mouth and accustom yourself to its presence. Progressively, within 8 to 10 days or perhaps less, you will be used to the tube and then you will be able to bear the cannula during sleep.
How to place the cannula before sleeping.
- When you are about to go to bed, put the cannula with the elastic band around your neck.
- Try out the cannula quickly by sinking it into the mouth so as to adjust the band (you may adjust it by removing the silicone tube and by only taking the filter). It is necessary for the filter plate to be practically in contact with the lips without pressing them too much). If you feel that the cannula goes too deep, loosen the elastic band a little, so the plate will be at approximately 1 cm from your lips. However, to suppress snoring efficiently, sink the tube as deep as possible into the mouth. The teeth have to rest gently on the hard part of the filter without squeezing it.
- When the adjustment of the elastic band is done, keep the cannula around your neck and do not sunk it in your mouth.
- If you plunge the tube while being still upright, you will have an excess of saliva.
- Do not sink it immediately into the mouth.
- Lie down - and wait for sleep to come. When you feel that you are about to fall asleep and only at that very moment, introduce the tube in the mouth. Salivation is then reduced. If it persists, stay lying on the back for a moment so as to be able to swallow the saliva without trouble. As you get sleepy you will not feel the tube so much and then you will fall asleep.
- As noticed in the directions for use, if the reflexes remain important, you can anaesthetize your throat. You can suck two anaesthetizing tablets prescribed to soothe throat sore (in free sale) or you can take a spoonful of some more powerful viscous local anaesthetizing jelly, 5 to 10 mm before introducing the cannula in the mouth. The latter medicine is only delivered on prescription and if necessary, your physician will be able to prescribe it. In this case, test it in daytime.
- Some saliva may run out of your mouth during the night. In order to reduce this hypersecretion, try to keep your mouth a little agape.
- As you breathe, the air will dry excessive salivation.
- The cannula may wake you sometimes during the first nights.
- Your body will progressively get accustomed to the cannula during sleep.
- While resting and without realizing it, your tongue may remove the cannula and expel it out of the mouth.
- This normal reaction will become less and less recurrent.
- If you wake up with the cannula out of your mouth, re-place it and resume your sleep.
- It will not be essential to keep the cannula during the whole night.
- Snoring is noisier during the earliest phase of sleep, that is to say during the first hours'sleep. The cannula is totally indispensable during this period indeed.
If you scrupulously follow this advice, you will gradually accustom yourself to this new innovating device and thus, you will enjoy a silent and restorative sleep.
