RE: Need Help. Saliva Loosening Mouth Tape
I'm struggling with this problem as well.
I'm currently using 4" Cover-Roll Stretch (Leukoplast brand? by BSN, Made in Germany). Each night I seem to drool and the saliva loosens the tape in one corner of my mouth, and then I wake up feeling like i've been struggling to breathe through the little open corner. Seems to very consistently interrupt my sleep after at least ~4h and the next 4h I'm waking up constantly. I do have a beard which I think is giving the tape a worse seal.
Not sure what brand of tape to try next... Really trying to avoid losing the beard if possible...
RE: Need Help. Saliva Loosening Mouth Tape
I'm so pleased to see the posts here! Thanks for the hints.
Long ago I worked for 3M in Canada and I'm allergic to their tapes with solvent based adhesive. I suspect (but don't know for sure) that tapes that don't stick have water based adhesive. Way back they had a program, "pollution prevention saves" and swung some adhesives from solvent-based to water-based...and I'm ok with water based. I don't have the skill to read the labels to see if the products are water based.
Useless fact: they used to coat tape in 5 foot rolls!
RE: Need Help. Saliva Loosening Mouth Tape
Anyone know which 3M tapes are solvent-based?
RE: Need Help. Saliva Loosening Mouth Tape
When I was a faithful employee they referred to an ingredient in the adhesive as RM19....raw material 19. That was so we wouldn't somehow reveal what it took to make tape. I don't know how to read the code to see what's inside.
DaveL
RE: Need Help. Saliva Loosening Mouth Tape
Hi Norman,
Yep, Fixomull here downunder.
I have stopped using this for the most part, it is great stuff, sticks well, easy to remove in the morning and I usually got 2 - 5 night use out of each strip.
I could never stop the leaks even with full mouth taping and using nasal pillows.
For me there is always some leakage around the nasal pillows whichever type/sort/size I use.
Full mouth taping made me very uncomfortable so I resorted to partial mouth taping.
(I managed to get near zero leaks with F30i full face mask but this caused other problems.)
I eventually got used to the leaks and average around 20 to 25 most nights even with no mouth tape.
Using a soft cervical collar helps to reduce the leak rate too.
btw I started end 2019 and only now am comfortable with where I am with CPAP (Vauto)
but that is another long story.
Stick with the Fixomull, I haven't found anything better.
Best,
Chris/ Perth WA
